Patient Safety Coordinator

Job description

Job responsibilities

Support the Patient Safety Lead with the development and co-ordination of an ICB Quality Assurance and Improvement Framework.

Support the team with the co-ordination of provider organisations programme of quality themed visits, in order to develop insight and inform improvement in the standard of clinical care delivery within contracted and commissioned services.

Contribute to the implementation of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy across the ICB through supporting the Patient Safety Lead with any related implementation workstreams

Support patient safety insight and improvement workstreams through the development of systems to facilitate the management and analysis of data relating to patient safety insight that incorporates all sources of patient safety intelligence. Provide analysis reports as required.

Identify and articulate any emerging risk indicators to Head of Patient Safety/Patient Safety Lead so that this can be escalated and identified on risk register as required.

Support the Head of Patient Safety/Patient Safety Lead in co-ordinating/facilitating responses to patient safety incidents including coordination of meetings and recording/monitoring of action notes.

Support ICB oversight of patient safety and learning themes through management of Patient Safety systems/databases including the Learning from Patient Safety Events Platform (LFPSE) and future systems in line with implementation of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

Support Patient Safety Lead in ensuring that themes and learning inform relevant Programme Boards, through maintenance of processes/systems (including STEIS/Datix and local databases) designed to draw insight from service concerns, complaints, serious incident investigations and other sources of intelligence, providing analysis reports as required.

Support the monitoring and review the progress of providers in delivering against quality improvement action plans to demonstrate that change has been successfully implemented and feedback to the team

Support with monitoring and progress against quality standards and metrics within provider contracts. Appropriately escalate deviation from expected standards to the appropriate Lead

Support the coordination of multi-agency forums for the purpose of enabling quality improvement.

Support the wider Quality Team in providing professional and clinical advice and guidance to ICB teams, to ensure quality insight and improvement methodology is central to the development of care pathways, service redesign and transformation.

Active engagement with provider organisations and provision of advice and support, commensurate with role.

Represent the wider Quality Team as required.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties but to give a guide to the objectives and responsibilities of the post. For full description, please see the attached Job Description.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Knowledge and experience in use of patient safety/local incident management systems
• Experience of/involvement in quality/clinical reviews or learning events

Desirable

• Experience of reviewing / analysing patient safety/quality data from a variety of sources

Qualifications

Essential

• Active and current professional clinical registration e.g. Nurse/Allied Health Professional

Skills

Essential

• Working knowledge of NHS Patient Safety Strategy/PSIRF/LFPSE
• Analytical and solution-seeking skills
• Ability to assimilate information and to support with the development of clear and fluent reports on a wide range of subjects.
• Ability to influence and negotiate at an appropriate level to role both verbally and in writing with both internal and external stakeholders.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire Integrated Care Board

Address

NHS Herefordshire and Worcestershire, Kirkham House

John Comyn Drive

Worcester

WR3 7NS

Employer's website

https://herefordshireandworcestershire.icb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)