Patient Safety Specialist

5 days ago


Warwick, United Kingdom Coventry & Warwickshire Integrated Care Board Full time

The patient safety specialist provides compassionate and collaborative senior leadership, visibility and expert support to the patient safety work within the organisation. This role supports the development of a patient safety culture and safety systems and requires sufficient seniority to engage directly with the executive team (or the equivalent level of leadership in organisations without executives). They have a key role in supporting the executive team to understand the most effective approaches to improving patient safety and ensuring that any patient safety-related responsibilities held by different executives are effectively aligned. The patient safety specialist is responsible for and may directly lead or support, patient safety understanding, involvement and improvement activity and ensures that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in all patient safety processes. This includes ensuring that their organisation have effective processes in place that cross directorate or divisional structures and that these link effectively to national safety systems. This role includes supporting the organisation to ensure that the patient is at the centre of all patient safety activity.
- Responsible for developing and delivering patient safety policy, promoting innovation and supporting operational excellence
- Working with a range of data, facts and situations often requiring detailed analysis and interpretation making decisions on the most appropriate approach.
- Monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against patient safety deliverables.
- Lead on advising the Board in relation to local patient safety issues
- Support the management of complex and cross-system investigations by promoting multi-agency working
- Chair and/or attend key meetings in relation to patient safety to assure the Board that patient safety is being managed, ensure minutes are taken and circulated in a timely manner.
- Provide relevant stakeholders with timely, relevant, accurate and reliable information and high-level reports on patient safety progress
- Report to the Board-level patient safety committee on patient safety, escalating as required any significant risks which could impact on the organisation’s ability to meet internal or national standards, targets or performance expectations.
- Influence and have direct access to the executive/leadership team, including access at no notice to escalate immediate risks or issues.
- access, edit, monitor and store information, data and content for personal and/or professional purposes.
- Lead in the design, use and evaluation of a wide range of information and data, in order support evidence-based decision making.

This exciting senior leadership position comes at a time when the landscape of health and social care is changing creating great opportunities. This post presents an opportunity to work at a system level galvanising the existing network to create a strong sustainable patient safety specialist offer. The post holder would work with and be supported by the wider nursing, quality and transformation team.
- Responsible for developing and delivering patient safety policy, promoting innovation and supporting operational excellence
- Working with a range of data, facts and situations often requiring detailed analysis and interpretation making decisions on the most appropriate approach.
- Monitor, interpret and quality assure progress against patient safety deliverables.
- Lead on advising the Board in relation to local patient safety issues
- Support the management of complex and cross-system investigations by promoting multi-agency working
- Chair and/or attend key meetings in relation to patient safety to assure the Board that patient safety is being managed, ensure minutes are taken and circulated in a timely manner.
- Provide relevant stakeholders with timely, relevant, accurate and reliable information and high-level reports on patient safety progress
- Report to the Board-level patient safety committee on patient safety, escalating as required any significant risks which could impact on the organisation’s ability to meet internal or national standards, targets or performance expectations.
- Influence and have direct access to the executive/leadership team, including access at no notice to escalate immediate risks or issues.
- access, edit, monitor and store information, data and content for personal and/or professional purposes.
- Lead in the design, use and evaluation of a wide range of information and data, in order support evidence-based decision making.
- Confident and proficient in the design, construction and evaluation of interactive digital technologies for use by individuals, groups and organisations that can collect, store and deliver information, data and content.
- Champion the use of and support others in the adoption of new/innovative digital devices, technologies, software and A Health and Care Digital Capabi



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