Patient Safety Lead

6 days ago


Canterbury, United Kingdom East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you passionate about high quality clinical care and patient safety?

Are you a registered professional who is curious and improvement focused?

If so, we have a fantastic opportunity available for a Patient Safety Lead working within the corporate patient safety team. This role provides specialist advice, support, coaching and mentorship to care group leads on patient safety incidents and promoting a positive patient safety culture within the Trust.

Daily review of incidents (online DatixWEB) and liaison with care group governance staff and clinicians as required to ensure timely review and escalation of issues.

Skilled facilitation of investigations and improvement plan development and monitoring of these through to completion.

Provision of education and training including incident management, human factors, duty of candour.

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people.

Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: ‘People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’.

We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called ‘We care’. It’s about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We’re looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

NHSEI have always been clear that staff have a professional duty to get vaccinated and it remains our best line of defence against COVID-19. As such NHS organisation including Primary Care, are encouraged to continue engaging with and supporting their staff to inform their decisions in order to drive vaccine confidence, protect themselves, patients, and everyone else. NHSEI has producedCOVID-19 vaccine communication materials.

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