Job summary
We are looking to recruit a Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness.
We welcome applications from colleagues working at Band 8 or above. If you would like an informal conversation about the position, please contact sara.barr-frost@nhs.net
This is a central role and input will be into corporate and clinical teams across the Trust.
The teams in this portfolio includes Patient Safety, Serious Incident Investigators, Clinical Effectiveness, Resuscitation and Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression teams.
Main duties of the job
Organisation-wide post, the post holder will work very closely with all clinical and non-clinical staff across the organisation in order to:.o Develop, implement and sustain the Trust's clinical governance and quality programmes.o Co-ordinate and strategically lead the Trust's patient safety, clinicaleffectiveness and audit department and have overall responsibility forensuring the development, planning and implementation of these aspects of the Trust's clinical and quality governance programme.o Lead the patient safety and clinical effectiveness teams in planning andimplementing a range of effective service developments and working in close collaboration with Network Directors, nurses and clinicians to improve patient care/safety and enhance clinical practice.o Work in close collaboration with the Clinical and Governance Team andNetwork Triumvirates.o To provide responses in partnership with the networks for all requests for information or submissions to NHSI, CQC, HSE and NHSLA.o To develop and devise the Patient Safety and any associated policies across the organisation by leading a programme which recognises, reports, analyses, evaluates and minimises risk throughout the organisation.
About us
We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.
Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We are really proud of ourPennineCare People and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Strategically lead and manage the Trusts patient safety and clinicaleffectiveness team and have overall responsibility for strategy, policy andservice development in relation to the Trusts patient safety, clinicaleffectiveness agenda across the organisation. Lead the Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Team in planning andimplementing a range of effective service developments and working in close collaboration with care hub managers and clinicians to improve clinical practice. Responsible for the formulation of the Trusts strategic plans for patient safety. Responsible for all patient safety and clinical effectiveness reporting for the Trust Responsible for ensuring maintenance and monitoring of clinical standards, including the development and implementation of strategies and systems for evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness, clinical standards and national performance (clinical) indicators, including NICE guidance. Provide highly specialist advice, support and guidance to clinicians in relation to a range of issues including: patient safety evidence based practice and the development of guidelines for specific patient groups maintaining of governance standards across the organisation. Co-ordinate special investigations into serious clinical incidents/adverse events. Gain the co-operation of senior clinicians involved in any seriousevent. Analyse and interpret findings and produce recommendations tochanges in practice. Responsible for the delivery of training across on patient safety and clinical effectiveness. Liaise closely with the executive team and the Trusts network directors in the implementation of patient safety, audit and clinical effectiveness across the organisation.
Co-ordination and strategic management Co-ordinate and strategically manage the clinical effectiveness, and patient safety. Responsible for strategic planning and development of new reporting and feedback systems and for developing Trust strategy on patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
Safe, Effective, Experience Participate in the Trust Patient Safety Walk round Programme triangulating patient safety data to develop ward profiles and linking with Head of Nursing, Head of Allied Health Professionals, Associate Directors and Network Director of Operations, Network Directors of Nursing and Quality to highlight patient safety issues in patient areas: Develop and undertake a programme of compliance visits in patient areas across the Trust to support the compliance agenda; Escalate any issues identified during compliance visits appropriately; Work with the Trust Heads of Quality to support wards managers, senior nurses and clinical leads on compliance with any safety or quality programme as required eg AIMS etc. Work in collaboration with other internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and best practices approaches to compliance initiatives. Undertake regular horizon scanning to keep up to date with governanceinitiatives and forthcoming policy developments
Patient Safety To develop the patient safety strategy and agenda. Provision of expert advice to the executive team and Trust Board on the To ensure the timely review of the Patient Safety Strategy. To compile and monitor implementation of an annual work plan for risk Ensure learning from incident reporting and risk assessments is incorporated into an interactive process to ensure learning is assimilated across the Trust. Develop structured training programmes and briefings for promoting the importance of clinical/non clinical risk and incident management and the application of associated tools to all levels of the organisation Ensure that compliance and assurance information is utilised as assurance for identified risks; Ensure that compliance visits and support is risk based.
Leadership/Management Provide leadership and direction to Networks in the monitoring, management and maintenance of local judgement frameworks to support evidence of local compliance. Provide leadership and direction to direct line reports Manage sickness, absence and leave in accordance with Trust policy Complete appraisals and staff PDR aligning service objectives to the role, responsibility and strategic direction of the Trust Responsible for direct management and recruitment and retention of: Audit & Effectiveness Team, Patient Safety Team. Provide leadership and expert technical support to the clinical governance team and to other senior managers and clinicians across the Trust in relation to clinical governance, clinical risk and effectiveness and patient and public involvement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Strategically lead and manage the Trusts patient safety and clinicaleffectiveness team and have overall responsibility for strategy, policy andservice development in relation to the Trusts patient safety, clinicaleffectiveness agenda across the organisation. Lead the Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Team in planning andimplementing a range of effective service developments and working in close collaboration with care hub managers and clinicians to improve clinical practice. Responsible for the formulation of the Trusts strategic plans for patient safety. Responsible for all patient safety and clinical effectiveness reporting for the Trust Responsible for ensuring maintenance and monitoring of clinical standards, including the development and implementation of strategies and systems for evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness, clinical standards and national performance (clinical) indicators, including NICE guidance. Provide highly specialist advice, support and guidance to clinicians in relation to a range of issues including: patient safety evidence based practice and the development of guidelines for specific patient groups maintaining of governance standards across the organisation. Co-ordinate special investigations into serious clinical incidents/adverse events. Gain the co-operation of senior clinicians involved in any seriousevent. Analyse and interpret findings and produce recommendations tochanges in practice. Responsible for the delivery of training across on patient safety and clinical effectiveness. Liaise closely with the executive team and the Trusts network directors in the implementation of patient safety, audit and clinical effectiveness across the organisation.
Co-ordination and strategic management Co-ordinate and strategically manage the clinical effectiveness, and patient safety. Responsible for strategic planning and development of new reporting and feedback systems and for developing Trust strategy on patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
Safe, Effective, Experience Participate in the Trust Patient Safety Walk round Programme triangulating patient safety data to develop ward profiles and linking with Head of Nursing, Head of Allied Health Professionals, Associate Directors and Network Director of Operations, Network Directors of Nursing and Quality to highlight patient safety issues in patient areas: Develop and undertake a programme of compliance visits in patient areas across the Trust to support the compliance agenda; Escalate any issues identified during compliance visits appropriately; Work with the Trust Heads of Quality to support wards managers, senior nurses and clinical leads on compliance with any safety or quality programme as required eg AIMS etc. Work in collaboration with other internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and best practices approaches to compliance initiatives. Undertake regular horizon scanning to keep up to date with governanceinitiatives and forthcoming policy developments
Patient Safety To develop the patient safety strategy and agenda. Provision of expert advice to the executive team and Trust Board on the To ensure the timely review of the Patient Safety Strategy. To compile and monitor implementation of an annual work plan for risk Ensure learning from incident reporting and risk assessments is incorporated into an interactive process to ensure learning is assimilated across the Trust. Develop structured training programmes and briefings for promoting the importance of clinical/non clinical risk and incident management and the application of associated tools to all levels of the organisation Ensure that compliance and assurance information is utilised as assurance for identified risks; Ensure that compliance visits and support is risk based.
Leadership/Management Provide leadership and direction to Networks in the monitoring, management and maintenance of local judgement frameworks to support evidence of local compliance. Provide leadership and direction to direct line reports Manage sickness, absence and leave in accordance with Trust policy Complete appraisals and staff PDR aligning service objectives to the role, responsibility and strategic direction of the Trust Responsible for direct management and recruitment and retention of: Audit & Effectiveness Team, Patient Safety Team. Provide leadership and expert technical support to the clinical governance team and to other senior managers and clinicians across the Trust in relation to clinical governance, clinical risk and effectiveness and patient and public involvement.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent
- Relevant professional qualification (Legal, Healthcare, Quality Assurance)
- Recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
- evidence of participation in improvement skills and leadership development programmes
- Experience to doctoral level
Desirable
- Doctorate in relevant area
Experience
Essential
- Working in a healthcare setting
- Extensive senior management experience in the NHS, social care or private sector
- Working with a statutory and mandatory portfolio within a large organsation
- Extensive experience of working with NHSR, NHSI, CQC and professional body requirements.
- Leading internal and external audits, reviews and inspections
- Substantial experience of delivering improvement/transformati on projects and programmes and recognised improvement methodologies
- Use of complex systems and databases for the collection, collation, storage and reporting on complex data sets for a wide variety of different sources
- Risk management frameworks, systems and processes.
- Managing and supervising others.
- Experience of managing multiple projects across a large organisation using recognised project management methodology.
- Experience of successful implementation and support of a Trust wide compliance reporting system
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- High level numerical, verbal data analysis and interpretation skills
- Ability to make rational judgements based on the available information and analysis
- High level data base skills
- Excellent report writing skills with an ability to present complex data that is well structured clear and correct.q
- Ability to make timely accurate value based decisions
- Excellent project management skills
- High level planning, organising and prioritising skills
- Ability to set and monitor standards for service provision
- People management skills
- Ability to give direction and ability to appropriately delegate
- Skilled in the use of IT systems
- High level negotiation skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Highly skilled at developing Board level written reports Budget Management
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to masters level or equivalent
- Relevant professional qualification (Legal, Healthcare, Quality Assurance)
- Recognised management qualification or equivalent experience
- evidence of participation in improvement skills and leadership development programmes
- Experience to doctoral level
Desirable
- Doctorate in relevant area
Experience
Essential
- Working in a healthcare setting
- Extensive senior management experience in the NHS, social care or private sector
- Working with a statutory and mandatory portfolio within a large organsation
- Extensive experience of working with NHSR, NHSI, CQC and professional body requirements.
- Leading internal and external audits, reviews and inspections
- Substantial experience of delivering improvement/transformati on projects and programmes and recognised improvement methodologies
- Use of complex systems and databases for the collection, collation, storage and reporting on complex data sets for a wide variety of different sources
- Risk management frameworks, systems and processes.
- Managing and supervising others.
- Experience of managing multiple projects across a large organisation using recognised project management methodology.
- Experience of successful implementation and support of a Trust wide compliance reporting system
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential
- High level numerical, verbal data analysis and interpretation skills
- Ability to make rational judgements based on the available information and analysis
- High level data base skills
- Excellent report writing skills with an ability to present complex data that is well structured clear and correct.q
- Ability to make timely accurate value based decisions
- Excellent project management skills
- High level planning, organising and prioritising skills
- Ability to set and monitor standards for service provision
- People management skills
- Ability to give direction and ability to appropriately delegate
- Skilled in the use of IT systems
- High level negotiation skills
- Excellent leadership skills
- Highly skilled at developing Board level written reports Budget Management
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
