Patient Safety Specialist

2 weeks ago


Bedford, United Kingdom East of England Ambulance Service Trust 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
- Responsibility for/oversight of the implementation of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy within the organisation, ensuring organisational strategy is aligned.
- Oversee and support Patient Safety improvement, ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding, and just culture principles are embedded in Patient Safety processes.
- Ensure information and intelligence from multiple sources is used as the basis for prioritising local Patient Safety development, and ensuring proposed improvement approaches.
- Support the effective collation, analysis and presentation of qualitative and quantitative Patient Safety data, and provide regular and tailored reports to all relevant committees, the organisation’s Board, and external agencies, as required.
- Develop, deliver and present Patient Safety data reports to a range of audiences with an effective and concise approach to enable clear understanding of complex information.
- Support/lead the implementation of continuous improvement of quality and impact of incident investigations, currently through the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).
- Support an approach to Patient Safety that drives improvement across the patient pathway beyond the organisation’s boundaries, including facilitating multiagency reviews, where required.
- Ensure mechanisms/policies are in place so that recommendations/improvements can be evidenced, measured, and monitored across the organisation.

Staff demonstrate compassion and respect whilst promoting patient dignity and respecting individual needs, patients are involved in their care and treatment, and staff act with the utmost professionalism and support patients and the public in the most trying of circumstances to provide positive outcomes.

If this sounds like you, and it’s time to make the change, then it’s time you applied to work at the ambulance service.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a more detailed list of duties and responsibilities.


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