Job summary
The Patient Safety Investigations Manager and Patient Safety Specialist is responsible for leading patient safety incident investigations and ensuring that the organisation learns from these incidents to improve overall patient safety.
The post holder will work closely with various stakeholders, including clinical and governance teams, to identify learning and improvement opportunities and enhance the patient safety culture.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the Post holder include:
- Conducting and overseeing complex patient safety incident investigations to ensure thorough systems based analysis, including embedding human factors and just culture principles .
- Developing and delivering training programmes related to patient safety incident investigations to enhance the skills and knowledge of staff.
- Providing senior leadership and support on highly complex issues pertaining to patient safety incidents.
- working closely and collaborate with various stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to foster a positive patient safety culture.
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it's staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we'll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters or equivalent level of experience
- Trained in Patient Safety Investigations - A systems approach to investigating and learning from patient safety incidents (provided by HSSIB)
- Patient Safety Specialist trained in Level 3 and 4 National Patient Safety Syllabus
Desirable
- Recognised training qualification
- Registered clinical professional
Experience
Essential
- Substantial, proven experience of managing patient safety in a large, complex organisation, with an understanding of the principles that underpin approaches to improving patient safety in health systems
- Experience of driving improvement for the safety of patients
- Experience of undertaking complex patient safety incident investigations under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
- Previous responsibility for/involvement in quality governance systems
Skills and Knowldege
Essential
- Expertise in human factors, systems thinking and application of just culture
- Significant knowledge of patient safety incident investigation, including system engineering initiative for patient safety (SEIPS)
- Ability to analyse complex information (including patient safety incident data, administrative data, mortality data) from a range of sources
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and ability to provide and effectively communicate complex, sensitive and contentious information to staff, patients and relatives/carers
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to provide leadership and work with senior leaders
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships across an organisation
- Credibility and enthusiasm for patient safety
- Enthusiasm and interest in ensuring others are trained and developed in patient safety, as appropriate.
- Values diversity and difference; operate with integrity and openness
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters or equivalent level of experience
- Trained in Patient Safety Investigations - A systems approach to investigating and learning from patient safety incidents (provided by HSSIB)
- Patient Safety Specialist trained in Level 3 and 4 National Patient Safety Syllabus
Desirable
- Recognised training qualification
- Registered clinical professional
Experience
Essential
- Substantial, proven experience of managing patient safety in a large, complex organisation, with an understanding of the principles that underpin approaches to improving patient safety in health systems
- Experience of driving improvement for the safety of patients
- Experience of undertaking complex patient safety incident investigations under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
- Previous responsibility for/involvement in quality governance systems
Skills and Knowldege
Essential
- Expertise in human factors, systems thinking and application of just culture
- Significant knowledge of patient safety incident investigation, including system engineering initiative for patient safety (SEIPS)
- Ability to analyse complex information (including patient safety incident data, administrative data, mortality data) from a range of sources
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and ability to provide and effectively communicate complex, sensitive and contentious information to staff, patients and relatives/carers
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Ability to provide leadership and work with senior leaders
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships across an organisation
- Credibility and enthusiasm for patient safety
- Enthusiasm and interest in ensuring others are trained and developed in patient safety, as appropriate.
- Values diversity and difference; operate with integrity and openness
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
