Band 8a Patient Safety Lead
3 weeks ago
**Job summary**:
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a permanent, part-time (0.8 WTE) role leading on patient safety for University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. This role provides expertise and leadership through analysis, assessment, implementation and evaluation of clinical care in the acute setting.
This comes at a dynamic time with a strong national agenda providing a catalyst for change and improvement in line with the National Patient Safety Strategy.
As lead for a successful and well-established Patient Safety Team we are looking for a dynamic and motivated individual who can work with us to take our patient safety systems, culture, learning and improvement to the next level.
**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
- Devising, implementing and monitoring the implementation of the National Patient Safety Strategy
- Embeding a culture of improvement in response to patient safety events, issues and risks
- Ensuring high patient safety standards are implemented and adhered to
- Lead on the delivery of National Patient Safety Alerts and gain assurance for associated Enduring Standards
- Providing leadership for Quality Improvement trust-wide
- Devising and delivering education across the organisation in relation to patient safety and quality improvement
- Generating intelligence and staff resources to support improvement
**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
**Job description**:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:
Undergraduate Degree
Professional clinical qualification/role
Further evidence of post graduate knowledge training or experience.
**Desirable**:
Masters/postgraduate qualifications related to role
Teaching qualification
Quality Improvement or Patient Safety related training
**Experience**:
**Essential**:
Recent experience as a clinical practitioner
Minimum of 5 years' experience in the NHS environment
Experience of quality management processes and
quality improvement mechanisms
Experience of using electronic information
Proven track record of change management and problem solving
Senior management experience in a complex organisation
Experience of communicating effectively at a senior
management level
Experience of initiating, implementing and influencing
change within an organisation
Experience of teaching in a variety of settings and to a variety of disciplines
Understanding data - extracts, collates, quantitatively analyses and validates data, recognising alternative solutions where necessary.
Good working knowledge of medical records documentation
**Desirable**:
Experience of staff management
Good understanding of quality improvement techniques-clinical audit, risk management, complaints
**Additional Criteria**:
**Essential**:
Highly developed negotiating and influencing skills and an ability to develop and maintain constructive relationships with professional/managerial disciplines.
Ability to assimilate, analyse and present complex problems and data, identifying necessary action and make recommendations
Strong problem solving ability and capacity to recognise alternative solutions where necessary
Ability to interpret national policy and guidance, identify organisation wide implications, including implementation across an organisation
Ability to research, develop and implement projects and critically appraise these and make recommendations for improvement
Ability to communicate and liaise with all staff groups
Critical appraisal of wide ranging documents to ensure appropriate & sensitive communication of issues
to members of the public/solicitors/NHSL
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