Patient Safety Lead

5 months ago


Dorchester, 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.

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.

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

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


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