Patient Safety Specialist

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a hardworking, enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the Trust Patient Safety Team as a Patient Safety Specialist (Band 8a AfC), within the Quality and Assurance Directorate.

The Trust Patient Safety Department consists of 8 team members focused on improving patient safety and delivering the Trust’s patient safety incident response framework. The team work in collaboration with other Quality and Assurance teams and corporate services (e.g. Chief Nurse Office) to triangulate information from various sources in order to identify and manage themes relating to safety and quality.

The Patient Safety Specialist role will be responsible for leading, promoting and facilitating effective patient safety investigations and embedding learning across all areas of the organisation. The post holder will establish networks within and beyond the organisation to discover best practice to enhance the Trust’s safety culture and undertake horizon scanning/ intelligence gathering which can be incorporated into local systems and processes to improve quality of care for patients. The role requires individuals who are flexible and can work autonomously but also enjoy working as part of a dynamic team to lead and support patient safety and associated quality improvement work through expertise in effective clinical networking, change management and improvement science.

Working with the Trust Senior Patient Safety Lead and professional leads within the Clinical groups and across the organisation, the post-holder will ensure the Trust puts patient safety as its highest priority and demonstrate compliance with national patient safety policies and standards. They will support the development and implementation of the Trust’s patient safety incident response plan (PSIRP) and incident response framework (PSIRF), with a focus on areas for quality improvement.

The post holder will lead on Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSII) for the Trust as well as support the Trust Senior Patient Safety Lead in improving the quality and value of services in sustaining a just being open culture and be able to evidence learning from all aspects of quality and risk. It is essential that the appointee is a proven team player who is able to engender trust and respect from colleagues at all levels of the organisation.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners, an academic health sciences centre, and pioneers in health research, and providing high quality teaching and education. This partnership helps provide the latest treatments alongside the best possible care.

The Quality and Assurance Directorate consists of 4 teams - Resolution (formerly known as Complaints) Team, Legal Team, Risk and Assurance Team and the Quality Improvement Patient Safety (QIPS) Team. The teams work closely together to provide the necessary support, guidance and training to the Clinical Groups (and their Directorates) to promote excellent clinical leadership in all areas of the hospital, which contributes to a positive patient experience and promotes the Trust's values.

We are jointly committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.

Patient Safety and Clinical Governance
- Provide specialised expert advice and leadership on patient safety, incident investigation, systems-thinking, quality improvement, and matters relating to a wide range of quality assurance topics.
- Support and contribute to the development and implementation of the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response (PSIRP) and Framework (PSIRF) to be used for responding to patient safety events and identification of areas for improvement.
- Support and contribute to the development and implementation of a patient safety response plan for each Clinical Group and core service (cutting across all Clinical Groups) to appropriate respond to patient safety events within the Trust’s overall quality framework.
- Lead on specific Trust-wide patient safety incident investigations or high level serious incidents as required, with in-depth systems thinking investigations aligned to the trust patient safety incident response plan.
- Identify patient safety concerns and themes from different patient safety data sources (such as incidents).
- Lead on independent internal reviews of services in relation to patient safety and quality.
- Provide expertise in planning quality improvement projects, using appropriate service improvement techniques to support departments in the identification of opportunities for improvement and the elimination of waste/non-value.
- Ensure regular analysis and review of trust incident data to actively seek areas for improvement.
- Monitor achievement of key patient safety quality indicators, prospectively highlight areas of pot

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