Patient Safety

5 months ago


Chertsey, United Kingdom Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Patient Safety and Clinical Governance Specialist (Band 7, 37.5 hours, Permanent Post)

Ashford & St Peters NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an experienced midwife or nurse, with demonstrable knowledge of the clinical governance and patient safety agenda, to join their established and experienced Quality & Safety Team within the Women’s Health & Paediatrics Division. You will take the lead on aspects of the maternity safety improvement plan, support the Perinatal Quality and Safety Lead to ensure robust investigations are undertaken following clinical incidents and take a lead role in ensuring the dissemination and embedding of the learning from such cases. You will be actively involved in the clinical audit programme and guideline work streams as well as taking the lead on the PMRT reporting process across the division.
You will need to be adaptable, able to manage your own workload, responsive to events as they occur and enjoy working as part of a busy team. You will have a passion for quality improvement and a strong desire to improve safety and patient experience.

You will be joining ASPH Maternity Department at a time of exciting change as we embark upon a journey to implement the new national Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) designed to support teams to learn from incidents and support the families and staff involved. We are a driven and highly ambitious team with a strong focus on culture and civility. We are as passionate about our team as the women and families in our care.

Visits for prospective employees are welcomed.

The post holder will be the maternity lead for Patient Safety, identifying and coordinating service developments and improvements needed to achieve the highest standard of accreditation. As an experienced clinical practitioner, the post holder will be expected to create an environment of continuous quality improvement and put systems in place to minimise risk in response to clinical incidents.

The post holder will work in collaboration with members of the multidisciplinary team developing a culture of informed questioning, challenge, trend analysis, triangulation, and assurance to ensure lessons are learned and that changes in practice are made in a way which has a positive effect on patient outcomes and experience. As an experienced clinical practitioner they will provide both professional and clinical advice as necessary.

Support the Perinatal Quality and Safety Lead in ensuring that all aspects of clinical risk are robustly and effectively managed in the interest of safety. Support the implementation of systems, control processes and risk management arrangements to support monitoring of compliance with internal / external governance and best practice requirements.

Assist in the resolution of patient complaints through investigation, clinical advice and written response in accordance with the Trust’s Complaints and Concerns Policy.

The post holder will assist with the development and compliance of local and national clinical audit plans, and NICE guidance compliance, ensuring there is a robust programme of clinical audit and clinical guideline review in place.

**The post holder will**:
Deputise for the Perinatal Quality and Safety Lead in their absence.

In the absence of the Perinatal Quality and Safety Lead, attend and contribute to relevant Divisional and Board level meetings as required to do so.

Work closely with the Head of Midwifery and Clinical Governance Lead Consultant Obs & Gynae in the delivery of the maternity agenda for Clinical Governance.

Support the wider division on risk and governance matters within the realms of own knowledge base as required.

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workfor



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