Job summary
Proposed interview date - Friday 16/05
This role will be working closely with the Senior Patient Safety Advisor, Patient Safety Manager, Head of Clinical Governance, and Deputy Chief Medical Officers to identify and manage incidents and require further discussion in a weekly meeting, to consider learning response options under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). The appointee will also work with colleagues throughout the Trust in managing patient safety, ensuring that systems are in place to support a culture of open reporting and investigation. The appointee will provide support to the Divisional governance teams and Trust managers with any aspects of patient safety as well as assisting in the development and delivery of training programmes. With colleagues, the appointee will review learning response outcomes to ensure systemic issues are identified and appropriate actions planned to prevent a reoccurrence and enable learning to be shared across the Trust. The post-holder will work under the guidance of the Senior Patient Safety Advisor.
If you are offered an interview, there will be 3 parts to the selection process
1 A technical interview
2 A values-based interview
3 A short test
Main duties of the job
Specific Responsibilities part 1
- Evaluate the impact of the incidents.
- Co-ordinate and manage the weekly Safety, Learning & Improvement Conversation (SLIC), this will include:
- Identifying incidents to be considered for further review
- Drafting an agenda to be shared with the SLIC chair
- Managing the administration of the SLIC meeting which will include creating the agenda, collating papers, taking minutes, and creating the weekly SLIC learning slide.
- Attend the Patient Safety Response meetings roughly twice a week and document the outcomes on the clinical incident forms.
- Maintain the investigation logs.
- Maintain a close working relationship with Legal Services, Complaints, Tissue Viability, Information Governance, and Safeguarding to ensure effective communication about patient safety incidents and investigations.
- Attend a weekly meeting to triangulate with legal cases, safeguarding issues, complaints, and patient feedback.
- Maintain links with Health & Safety locally to ensure that relevant aspects are communicated, eg potential Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations cases.
- Liaise with the Assurance Team, the Integrated Care Board, and NHS England to ensure that any documents they request related to incidents are edited and shared, and response to Freedom of Information requests.
- Provide evidence and an audit trail for the completion of Duty of Candour.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specific Responsibilities part 2
- Together with the Senior Patient Safety Advisor support Divisions in investigating patient safety incident investigations (PSII) according to Trust policy, reviewing and approving draft investigation reports along with their action plans.
- Monitor PSII progress and ensure deadlines are met.
- Maintain and update files for investigations and ensure storage of all relevant correspondence in relation to these incidents.
- Update the Ulysses incident reporting system with incident investigation information.
- Assist in writing and reviewing the Patient Safety Teams local standard operating procedures.
- Edit and format investigation reports such that they can be supplied to internal and external peers, and patients or relatives.
- Manage the weekly global Safety Message emails.
- Maintain continuing professional development and knowledge of relevant legislation, standards and guidance.
- Work within the appropriate ethical standards and code of practice and meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulation, Caldicott Guidelines, the Human Rights Act, and other relevant legislation.
- Undertake other such duties commensurate with the grade as reasonably required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Specific Responsibilities part 2
- Together with the Senior Patient Safety Advisor support Divisions in investigating patient safety incident investigations (PSII) according to Trust policy, reviewing and approving draft investigation reports along with their action plans.
- Monitor PSII progress and ensure deadlines are met.
- Maintain and update files for investigations and ensure storage of all relevant correspondence in relation to these incidents.
- Update the Ulysses incident reporting system with incident investigation information.
- Assist in writing and reviewing the Patient Safety Teams local standard operating procedures.
- Edit and format investigation reports such that they can be supplied to internal and external peers, and patients or relatives.
- Manage the weekly global Safety Message emails.
- Maintain continuing professional development and knowledge of relevant legislation, standards and guidance.
- Work within the appropriate ethical standards and code of practice and meet the requirements of the Data Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulation, Caldicott Guidelines, the Human Rights Act, and other relevant legislation.
- Undertake other such duties commensurate with the grade as reasonably required.
Person Specification
SL
Essential
- Degree level qualification
- Excellent oral and written communication skills oExcellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to deal with disagreement and conflict
- Experience of working closely with colleagues of varying seniority
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office software
- Experience of working closely with colleagues of varying seniority
- Understanding of NHS structure and processes including commissioning and evolving governmental approaches
- Understanding of the respective roles of CQC, NHS England, MHRA, NICE, HSSIB, and other governmental and non-governmental healthcare organisations.
- Knowledge of PSIRF
Desirable
- Healthcare degree
- Specialist risk qualification
- Experience of working in patient safety
- Incident management system experience
- Presentation skills
- Experience working in the NHS
- Data analysis experience
- Knowledge of wider clinical governance issues, eg audit, mortality reviews
- Human factors/ after action review/ PSIRF investigation training
Person Specification
SL
Essential
- Degree level qualification
- Excellent oral and written communication skills oExcellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to deal with disagreement and conflict
- Experience of working closely with colleagues of varying seniority
- Proficient in use of Microsoft Office software
- Experience of working closely with colleagues of varying seniority
- Understanding of NHS structure and processes including commissioning and evolving governmental approaches
- Understanding of the respective roles of CQC, NHS England, MHRA, NICE, HSSIB, and other governmental and non-governmental healthcare organisations.
- Knowledge of PSIRF
Desirable
- Healthcare degree
- Specialist risk qualification
- Experience of working in patient safety
- Incident management system experience
- Presentation skills
- Experience working in the NHS
- Data analysis experience
- Knowledge of wider clinical governance issues, eg audit, mortality reviews
- Human factors/ after action review/ PSIRF investigation training
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).
