Patient Safety Specialist

2 weeks ago


StocktononTees, United Kingdom Your World Healthcare Full time

**Patient Safety Specialist**

**Location**: Stockton-on-Tees

**Job Type**: Temporary

**Duration of booking**: Expected to be 6 months with a potential extension

**Proposed start date**: ASAP

**Sector**: Healthcare

**Base**:Hospital

**Band**: 7

**Pay Rates**:
£19.50 - £22.50 paye per hour

£20.50 - £23.50 paye inclusive per hour

£21.50 - £24.50 umbrella per hour

**depending on skill and experience**

**Working Days and Hours**:Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week

**Remote working option Info**: On site initially with potential view to move to hybrid.

**Job Summary**

Work as part of a dynamic team delivering an effective service supporting staff and patients across the Trust. Within the Nursing, Patient Safety and Quality Directorate, the post holder will be responsible for the successful delivery of a range of servicesdesigned to improve patient safety and build on successes.

**Job Duties**
- Act as the key point of contact across internal and external partners to place a focus of a holistic approach to delivering patient safety based upon best practice and shared learning. This will require on-going liaison between various stakeholders ensuringcontinuous improvement.
- Thematic analysis of incidents, complaints etc. and present options to improve patient safety and the patient experience.
- Supportingstaff in and during the investigation of Patient Safety incidents
- Contribute to Trust and Department key high level objectives ensuring that it is underpinned by team objectives that deliver the business, transformation and performance requirements developing expertise in all aspects of patient safety science, such ashuman factors, systems thinking, investigation, quality improvement, change management, prospective and reactive risk analysis and management, error theory and just culture
- Develop and embed Safety 2 in the organisation
- Interpret national advice, guidance and requirements and advise the trust on how these should be implemented
- Develop and communicate a long-term vision for patient safety and convert into plans, objectives and deliverables for the organisation
- Ensure the collection and analysis data on protected characteristics, and support a wider understanding of the impact of discrimination and bias on the safety of patients
- Use established networks and create new ones to share good practice
- Facilitate engagement with regional colleagues and the national patient safety team
- Analysis of complex information, including patient safety incident data, administrative data, mortality data.
- Support and develop the Patients Safety Partner role in the organisation.
- Proactively in addressing inequalities in healthcare in general and in patient safety in particular.
- Lead on the development and implementation policies and procedures relating to Patient Safety ensuring the delivery is reported through the organisations agreed structures and processes.
- Support Care Groups to develop and maintain robust internal systems for ensuring that lessons are learnt from patient safety to influence and ensure service improvements using both Safety 1 and Safety 2 principles
- Support the Care Groups to develop and maintain robust internal systems for aspects of governance escalating were necessary
- Creatively engage with patients, carers and staff to promote the Patient Safety agenda, identifying excellent practice and ensuring this is incorporated into the organisational memory (Patient Safety 2)
- Support and where appropriate lead the development and delivery of work streams focused upon the improvement of patient safety
- Ensure that process and programmes for training and development for Patient safety is proportionate to the roles undertaken by staff and ensure that the yearly program meets the needs to of the organisation.
- Demonstrate commitment to the Improving Working Live principles of flexible working patterns to meet the needs of the service and staff
- Identify to Executive team patient safety issues
- Deliver structure and procedures associated with changes in national guidance within timescales.

**Qualifications/ Experience**
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent
- Evidence of recent professional development
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience of clinical governance and quality assurance



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