Governance, Risk and Safety Lead

7 months ago

Blackpool, United Kingdom Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We are looking for someone who can share their passion, vision and work ethic, to make a real, positive difference and organisational impact within the Governance, Risk and Safety agendas at the Trust.

**For further questions contact Stuart Logan at**:
In support of the Deputy Director of Governance, and Head of Quality Governance the post holder will take responsibility for leading on all aspects of Clinical Governance, Risk Management and Patient Safety across all Trust sites, in Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire.

The post holder will lead the Trust’s governance, risk and patient safety agenda ensuring that systems and processes are designed to meet the Trust’s statutory responsibilities and fully implemented.

To provide expert governance, risk and patient safety advice and support to all Trust staff in fulfilling their responsibilities.

To provide line management support to the Governance, Risk and Patient Safety team.

The Trust's mission is "Together We Care" which encompasses the strategic vision for operating as a high performing organisation within an Integrated Care System (ICS), which provides quality, safe and effective care. This will be achieved in a financially sustainable way through our values-driven, skilled and motivated workforce:
People-centred
- Serving people is the focus of everything we do;
Positive
- having a "can do" response whatever the situation;
Compassion
- always demonstrating we care;
Excellence
- continually striving to provide the best care possible.

Our Values are drivers for the behaviours that all our staff strive to demonstrate.

The values and behaviours have been and continue to be embedded and communicated across the organisation via a number of initiatives - including our recruitment processes, corporate induction, team briefings, meetings, appraisals and our annual awards ceremony.

Incident reporting and learning
- Support the development and coordination of a Just Culture by encouraging managers and professionals to identify system failures which contribute to patient safety incidents and from which improvements can be derived.
- Provide a focal point for incident reporting and encourage all staff to make use of the system and share resulting good practice and lessons learned.
- Work with the Head of Quality Governance to ensure that the systems in place that promote learning from incidents are well designed, implemented and actively communicated to all Trust staff.
- Ensure systems and processes in place to support the timely reporting of adverse incidents, “near misses” and excellence events across the Trust.
- Lead on ensuring timely and appropriate response to, including investigations, of patient safety incidents (including serious incidents), ensuring a consistent and coordinated approach in line with Trust policies and national policy on patient safety incident response.
- Ensure timely reporting of all Serious Incidents and produce a monthly oversight report for the Trust’s Quality and Effectiveness Committee.
- Ensure that any trends or themes arising from incidents of all types are escalated as appropriate to the risk register.
- Support Clinical Service Lines and corporate departments in their investigations into patient safety incidents/events and provide guidance in undertaking appropriate response which may include After Action Reviews, Safety Huddles and investigations.
- Liaise with risk and patient safety colleagues across statutory and non-statutory health sectors on issues that cross organisational boundaries.
- Report incidents to external bodies as required, including NPSA, StEIS, HSE, HPA, MHRA.
- Ensure that all investigations are followed through in a timely way, demonstrating that appropriate learning has been cascaded throughout the organisation.
- To oversee the continual development of the Trust’s Incident and Risk Management system ensuring that staff are able to access information in support of their governance responsibilities
- Work closely with the Head of Quality Governance in the implementation of the national patient strategy, leading on key elements as required.
- To lead the development, management and co-ordination of the relevant Care Quality Commission quality and safety standards and other key Risk related initiatives for the department.

Duty of Candour
- Ensure that policy regarding duty of Candour is well understood and implemented across the Trust, taking a proactive approach to managing non-compliance
- Ensure that systems and processes are in place to monitor and assess whether patient safety incidents fall under the scope of the statutory duty of candour to ensure that patients (or the relevant other person) receive the appropriate communication as soon as is reasonably practicable.
- Ensure that all stages of the DoC are implemented, providing support, advice and guidance to staff in the delivery of this.
- To ensure that all cases requiring statutory duty of candour are proactively an

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