Head of Patient Safety and Improvement

6 months ago

Northampton, United Kingdom Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust Full time

We are seeking a dynamic Head of Patient Safety and Improvement to provide leadership and facilitation of the Trust's patient safety strategy across the organisation.

The Head of Patient Safety and Improvement (HoPSI) will be accountable for providing compassionate and collaborative senior leadership, visibility and expert advice for patient safety and incident response within the organisation.

As the lead specialist the HoPSI will advise and support the Executive Team to understand and explore the most effective approaches to improving patient safety and ensure that any patient safety-related responsibilities are effectively aligned.

The HoPSI is responsible for and will directly lead patient safety understanding, involvement and improvement activity and ensure that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in all patient safety processes. This includes ensuring that the organisation has effective processes in place that cross directorate and divisional structures and that this links 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

Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values

Compassion

Accountability

Respect

Integrity

Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Improving quality and outcomes using insight and evidence for improvement:
Support the implementation of the NHS patient safety strategy within the Trust.

Provide patient safety expertise / leadership within the organisation, demonstrating compassionate leadership, visibility and supporting the continued development of the patient safety culture.

Support patient safety improvement, ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding, and Just Culture principles are embedded in patient safety processes.

Promote patient safety thinking as an approach that incorporates learning from incidents as well as all other outcomes including routine performance, good performance, near misses etc.

Support responses to patient safety incidents, ensuring adherence to national policy and guidance enabling timely reporting and facilitating multi-agency reviews where required.

Support implementation of the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)

Communicate patient safety issues, including the definition, framing, escalation and presentation of identified risks at executive/board level and report on the progress of the implementation of PSIRF and any associated patient safety action and improvement plans.

Ensure mechanisms / policies are in place so key lessons lead to actionable recommendations / improvements that can be measured and monitored across the organisation from all internal and external organisational reviews, high level enquiries and reports relating to patient safety.

Oversee patient safety improvement programmes that support the NHS patient safety strategy and local patient safety priorities, including Deteriorating patient and VTE.

Ensure information and intelligence from patient safety incidents and emerging patient safety issues is used as the basis for local patient safety development including leading on thematic reviews.

**Enabling clinical leadership**:
Support clinical teams in managing and providing safe services through risk management of environmental, clinical and organisational risks to patient safety. Working with staff to collate timely and robust insights to support patient safety improvement.

Support the embedding of patient safety requirements in induction training and development systems

Ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all patient safety activities.

Ensure local patient safety improvement programmes are truly multi-professional, and linked to the key non-clinical staff groups

Work collaboratively, to provide clinical and/or patient safety expertise to others developing and designing patie

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