Job summary
They will provide dynamic senior patient safety leadership, providing expert support to the organisation. With direct access to the executive team, the post holder will facilitate the early escalation of patient safety issues or concerns. They will also play a key role in the development of a patient safety culture, our safety systems and patient safety improvement activity.
You will work full time on patient safety, they will support the development of a patient safety culture and the Trusts safety systems, and have sufficient seniority to engage directly with our executive team. They will also work in networks to share good practice and to ensure we are learning from each other.
The post holder will participate in training to ensure they are fully trained in the national patient safety syllabus, ensuring that MTW is equipped with dedicated highly skilled patient safety professionals, helping to provide consistency across the organisation with the ICB and national best practice in our approach to patient safety.
As well as co-ordinating and supporting local patient safety priorities, the post holder will help with the implementation of the NHS patient safety strategy (PSIRF) and other national safety priorities. The specialist will have close links with the NHS England and NHS Improvements National Patient Safety Team who host a national network for Patient Safety Specialists, including regular meetings and information sharing through a dedicated online forum.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with regional patient safety specialists to develop and further patient safety networks to offer peer-to-peer support and opportunities to share learning and good practice at a Trust and a system level.
Develop and deliver the local implementation of the following areas from the NHS patient safety strategy:
- Just culture (to include effective monitoring and improvement systems)
- Ensuring the Trust has effective systems for the planning and coordinating of actions required by National Patient Safety Alerts
- Improving the quality of incident reporting
- Supporting their organisation's transition from the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) and Strategic Executive Information System (StEIS) to the new Learn from patient safety events (LFPSE) service for recording patient safety events
- Co-ordinating the local implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, from Autumn 2023
- Supporting the local implementation of the Framework for Involving Patients in Patient Safety
- Responsible for devising and rolling out the Trust's training plan patient safety investigation plans and other patient safety related training requirements, i.e. safety culture and working collaboratively with the FTSU Guardian on other similar items.
About us
Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.
The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 500,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.
The Trust's core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients - the first of its kind in the country.
We employ over 6,500 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Standard Level.
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.
Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Standard Level.
At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to MSc in patient safety / safety science or equivalent significant experience.
- A strong commitment to continuing professional development
Desirable
- PhD level study or equivalent relevant working experience in the same field
- Professional Registration e.g. NMC, HCPC, etc.
- Experience of the safety system "InPhase"
- Risk management related qualification
- Report Builder Trained "InPhase"
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Comprehensive expert in patient safety investigations and safety science
- Experience of facilitating change, including ability to motivate staff and change behaviours and attitudes
- Expert working knowledge of the 2015 NHS Patient Safety Framework / 2023 Patient Safety Framework (PSIRF)
- Experience of presenting reports to committees and boards
- Experience of theming and presenting data sets - ideally linked to patient safety
Desirable
- Experience in NHS leadership role (band 7 within quality governance / patient safety role)
- Detailed knowledge of the HEE safety sylabius
Skills
Essential
- Confidence in formulating presentations
- Expert IT skills (Microsoft Office, Word, Excel), manipulation and extraction of key information from multiple source databases (Datix, Inphase / Excel)
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to MSc in patient safety / safety science or equivalent significant experience.
- A strong commitment to continuing professional development
Desirable
- PhD level study or equivalent relevant working experience in the same field
- Professional Registration e.g. NMC, HCPC, etc.
- Experience of the safety system "InPhase"
- Risk management related qualification
- Report Builder Trained "InPhase"
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Comprehensive expert in patient safety investigations and safety science
- Experience of facilitating change, including ability to motivate staff and change behaviours and attitudes
- Expert working knowledge of the 2015 NHS Patient Safety Framework / 2023 Patient Safety Framework (PSIRF)
- Experience of presenting reports to committees and boards
- Experience of theming and presenting data sets - ideally linked to patient safety
Desirable
- Experience in NHS leadership role (band 7 within quality governance / patient safety role)
- Detailed knowledge of the HEE safety sylabius
Skills
Essential
- Confidence in formulating presentations
- Expert IT skills (Microsoft Office, Word, Excel), manipulation and extraction of key information from multiple source databases (Datix, Inphase / Excel)
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).
