Auzewell Chitewe
Auz is a Senior Improvement Advisor (IA) on the QI team and supports our Addictions Directorate
Auz is a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) and Project Manager with interest in service development, quality care and information technology. He has worked for the Trust since 2003 in different roles which have included being a Charge Nurse, Deputy Ward Manager and Senior Practitioner Nurse. Before joining the QI team, he was the trustwide clinical lead for developing and implementing the national tariff payment system in mental health (also known as Payment by Results-PbR) and the Programme Manager for the London Mental Health Tariff Programme – Working with London’s mental health commissioners and NHS providers to redesign of aspects of clinical care reporting, patient and clinician based outcome measurement, contract management, financial planning, data intelligence and clinician training.
An Improvement Advisor (IA) role involves:
- Extra support for those projects working on one of the Trust priority workstreams
- Expertise in improvement methods and tools
Their responsibilities are:
- Attending and help coordinate the monthly directorate QI forums
- Teaching staff and service users & carers in improvement methods and tools
- Strategic support for directorate in defining improvement priorities, aligning QI work, building capability
- Regular supervision sessions in each directorate with QI coaches
- Alert clinical/service director and sponsors of projects that are not progressing or where support structure is weak
