Patient Safety Lead

2 weeks ago

Dorchester Dorset, United Kingdom Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Applications are invited for the full time Patient Safety Lead post at Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation trust. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Quality team and lead on the Trustwide Patient Safety agenda. The post is open to nursing and allied health professional registrants.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead the completion of specific projects to progress the implement of the National Patient Safety Strategy agenda across the Trust, specifically to support the introduction of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

The post holder will support clinical leads to design, engage and implement projects to address knowledge or competence deficits, using quality improvement methodologies, human factors of change models and project management techniques, in response to individual organisational patient safety and quality improvement objectives.

The post holder will be highly visible, pro-active, and accessible. They will act as an expert clinical and quality resource: ensuring the sustained delivery of high standards of nursing care to patients from a fit for purpose nursing, midwifery and allied health professional workforce.

The post holder will offer advice and support to service leads to achieve specific outcomes, promoting a quality culture in which continuous improvement in clinical care is both sought and achieved.

About us

Dorset County Hospital sits at the heart of the community as the main provider of acute care to around 250,000 people in the west of Dorset.

At DCHFT, we pride ourselves on the care we provide for our patients, and on the culture, we are creating for our staff. We work hard to create a fair, inclusive environment for our staff.

Our Mission is to provide outstanding care for people in ways which matter to them, and our vision is Dorset County Hospital, working with our health and social care partners, will be at the heart of improving the well-being of our communities

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post holder will have specialist skills underpinned by theory and knowledge in professional practice and clinical governance. They will be able to plan and organise their workload considering the complexity of the organisation and professions. They will be able to work in a variety of settings and with mixed ability groups. The post holder will be required to undertake highly complex and skilled tasks, requiring analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options.

Please refer to attached job description and person specification

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • Registered Nurse/AHP
  • Masters Level Degree Qualification or equivalent experience
  • Evidence of CPD and advanced skills in various areas
  • Evidence of investigation training

Knowledge

Essential


  • Experienced registrant working at a senior level
  • Track record of successful clinical practice and clinical supervision of nursing practice
  • Experience of implementing service change/reconfiguration and modernising services
  • Broad clinical experience
  • Developing policies and strategies
  • Knowledge of the performance management agenda and Quality improvement tools and techniques
  • Comprehensive understanding of local and national policy

Skills and Abilities

Essential


  • Can demonstrate effective communication style
  • Can demonstrate highly developed verbal and nonverbal communication skills
  • Can demonstrate a high level of organisational skills and ability
  • Can demonstrate project management skills
  • Advanced presentation skills
  • Actively listens and engages
  • Exercise judgement involving highly complex facts or situations, which require analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
  • Ability to work in a complex environment
  • Display strong collaborative leadership qualities
  • Results driven/outcome focused
  • System and process orientated
  • Adopts a lateral thinking approach to problem solving
  • Open and honest
  • Reliable and trustworthy
  • Emotional intelligence
  • Demonstrates personal resilience
  • Recognise limitations
  • Enthusiastic and self motivated
  • Strong influencing, persuasion and negotiating skills
  • Strong Team Player

Employer details

Employer name

Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Dorset County Hospital

Williams Avenue

Dorchester

DT1 2JY

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