Scottish Improvement Foundation Skills (SIFS) course
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The aim of SIFS is to support teams or individuals to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence to participate in QI projects and use QI tools.
Recruitment to SIFS Cohort 7 is now open.
About the course
SIFS aims to support individuals to develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence to take begin an improvement project. This includes contributing to testing, measuring and reporting on changes made.
We will:
- teach you how to use the QI Journey as a roadmap for your QI project
- introduce you to QI tools to help generate ideas for change
- show you how to get those change ideas into action using the Model for Improvement and PDSA cycling
- explore the barriers to change and uncover how the System of Profound Knowledge can help us understand these dynamics better
You must be able to work on a small QI project while you are learning with us on the course. We want you to bring a problem and NOT a solution to this course, as we will teach you how to further explore your problem and find multiple solutions. This is very much a learning by doing approach.
How can I apply for Cohort 7 of SIFS?
Download our applicant information sheet (Word format, May 2024)
At the end of this application information sheet you will find a link to our Microsoft Forms application.
Please be aware that we require your line manager to email us a Statement of Support otherwise we won’t be able to process your application.
It is also important that you realise that as this is a learning by doing course, we do expect you to be able to dedicate 90 minutes each week to working on your project throughout the time you are on SIFS.
Feedback on the course (video)
Watch feedback from two people who’ve previously done the course: Armed Forces project manager, Kari and Health Visitor, Fiona explaining why they found the course invaluable.
Our SIFS journey so far (video)
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