Associate Director of Patient Safety

2 weeks ago


King's Lynn, United Kingdom The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This role is to provide strong leadership and up-to-date expertise in patient safety, quality improvement, compliance and risk management, to develop, embed and drive continuous improvement in the patient safety agenda. The post holder will report to the Chief Nurse and be able to demonstrate significant experience in managing patient safety, clinical effectiveness, risk and compliance.

The post holder will be an experienced, motivated individual with experience of managing patient safety at a senior level. The post holder will also act as the Trusts lead Patient Safety Specialist.

Having delegated authority for patient safety when the Chief Nurse is absent from the Trust.

Representing the Trust at local, regional and national meetings as required, ensuring that the Trust is represented operationally and strategically from a governance and patient safety and improvement perspective.

When appropriate, representing the Patient Safety at Executive Team, Trust Board and Subcommittee meetings, writing and presenting papers and ensuring that patient safety, quality, improvement, governance, and risk issues, both local and national, which may impact on the Trust are raised and addressed.

Responding to issues quickly and pro-actively, prioritising workload as appropriate.

Providing leadership for patient safety and improvement matters for the Trust, supporting the delivery of the Trust’s Corporate Strategy.

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.

In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

We are delighted to have been added to the New Hospital Programme - and we look forward to bringing a new Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) to King’s Lynn and West Norfolk which is nothing less than our patients, local communities and staff deserve.

Having delegated authority for patient safety when the Chief Nurse is absent from the Trust.

Representing the Trust at local, regional and national meetings as required, ensuring that the Trust is represented operationally and strategically from a governance and patient safety and improvement perspective.

When appropriate, representing the Patient Safety at Executive Team, Trust Board and Subcommittee meetings, writing and presenting papers and ensuring that patient safety, quality, improvement, governance, and risk issues, both local and national, which may impact on the Trust are raised and addressed.

Responding to issues quickly and pro-actively, prioritising workload as appropriate.

Providing leadership for patient safety and improvement matters for the Trust, supporting the delivery of the Trust’s Corporate Strategy.

Ensure that all work undertaken relating to the corporate strategy and Key Strategic Objectives align to patient safety, improvement and quality and is supported with research evidence where possible, to ensure rigour in implementation.

Engage effectively with clinicians and managers to gain their commitment and confidence to support the change in culture and behaviours required to deliver patient safety, service objectives and improvement in line with the NHS England Patient Safety Strategy.

Provide expert advice, leading on the development of policy and strategy in relation to the patient safety agenda, including implementing and monitoring measures to assure the quality, effectiveness and safety of clinical care and improving the experience for patients.

In conjunction with relevant stakeholders, utilise specialist governance knowledge to review information relating to patient quality, safety, audit and risk management to ensure it is robust and meets the organisation’s needs. Where appropriate, triangulate data (including research evidence), identifying trends, presenting it in a robust, user-friendly format in order to provide Clinicians and Managers with fast, effective information from which they can make pro-active decisions.

Ensure the effective, timely and accurate reporting of patient safety matters internally and externally.

Enable a positive pro-active clinical risk management and improvement culture through facilitation of learning responses to patient safety events wh



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