Deputy Patient Safety Manager

Job summary

This is a managerial post responsible for providing operational direction (under the guidance of the Patient Safety Manager), leadership, coordination of effective frameworks and advice to support the Trust's Patient Safety activities.

The post holder will be expected to be visible and accessible to provide support and guidance to health care professionals, managers, and staff in all aspects of patient safety and ensure the Trust's commitment to learning from a range of incidents in a coordinated, systematic, transparent, and focused way is achieved.

The post holder will be responsible for management of the Patient Safety function; including the Trust's Patient Safety Incidents requiring investigation process, Incident reporting process, Duty of Candour process, National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide, Local Real Time Suicide Surveillance, and Homicide and external reviews.

Main duties of the job

To support the delivery and maintenance of a range of organisational structures and processes related to patient safety. These include Patient Safety Incidents requiring investigation process, Incident reporting process, Duty of Candour process and National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide/ Local Real Time Suicide Surveillance and the ensuring senior leads for these areas of work are sighted on the relevant data, emerging themes captured in these processes, for strategic assurances and Trust learning and improving.

The role will provide advice and direction on matters related to Patient Safety Incidents requiring investigation process, Incident reporting process, Duty of Candour process and National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Local Real Time Suicide Surveillance.

The role will combine information from these structures alongside internal and external data to complete analysis and formation of judgements relating to these activities. This analysis will be presented to a range of stakeholders (internal and external) using a number of means such as verbal presentation and written reports.

The role will support the Patient Safety Manager and in their absence attend meetings to deliver reports and advise on patient safety issues.

To devise and deliver training in the respect of investigation methodologies, learning from incidents, deaths, and wider reviews both local and national to the organisation.

About us

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.

Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.

Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

County Hall or Endeavour House

Norfolk or Suffolk

NR1 2DH

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

County Hall or Endeavour House

Norfolk or Suffolk

NR1 2DH

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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