Patient Safety Lead and Patient Safety Specialist

6 months ago


Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Patient Safety Team as the Patient Safety Lead/ Patient Safety Specialist at Nottinghamshire NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for someone who is passionate about patient safety and continuous quality improvement for the role.

As part of strengthening the organisations approach to patient safety and the implementation of PSIRF in April, we are expanding the Patient Safety team to enable them working alongside clinical teams to carry out not only incident reviews but a range of facilitated learning opportunities supporting every aspect of patient safety and the embedding of a safety culture.

The role will assist in the development of an ambitious Trust Patient Safety Strategy to transform our approach to patient safety at Nottinghamshire Healthcare in line with the National Patient Safety Strategy. They will support the development of a patient safety culture and safety systems and have sufficient seniority to engage directly with the senior leadership teams.

The Patient Safety Lead /Patient Safety Specialist will support patient safety improvement activities and ensure that systems thinking, human factors understanding and Just Culture principles are embedded in all safety processes.

You will promote patient safety thinking beyond why things go wrong in healthcare to examining why things routinely go right and how that can be maximised.

The Patient Safety Lead /Patient Safety Specialist will assist the Trust to build on the foundations of a patient safety culture and a patient safety system through:
Being involved in understanding of patient safety within the organisation by drawing insight from multiple sources of patient safety information (Insight).

Equipping patients, staff and partners with the skills and opportunities to improve patient safety throughout the whole organisation (Involvement).

Designing and supporting programs that deliver effective and sustainable change in the most important areas (Improvement).

You must demonstrate how your experience, knowledge and skills meet the criteria as listed in the person specification and job description

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you

TeamNottsHC

In respect of trust wide Patient Safety Lead, lead the delivery and management of patient safety including:
Incident reporting and management

Serious incident processes including investigations

Mortality surveillance

Effective use of the Ulysses Risk Management System

Effective implementation of the Duty of Candour

Safe systems to prevent harm, including prevention of Never Events and managing risks in the clinical environment

Inquest liaison

Claims Management

Risk Management

In respect to Patient Safety Specialist, to provide expert support to the organisation, with direct access and routes of escalation to senior leaders, to raise patient safety issues or concerns including:
Support transition from National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) and Strategic Executive Information System (StEIS) to the new Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service

Involvement in implementing the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)

Improving safety culture

Responding to National Patient Safety Alerts

Implementation of the Framework for Involving Patients in Patient Safety

Improving patient safety education and training

Addressing patient safety improvement

Implementing medical examiners

**In respect of all roles**:
Provide timely, accurate reports as required relating to areas of responsibility for use from ward and team lev



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