Patient Safety Specialist

4 days ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom NHS South East London Integrated Care Board Full time
Job Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic healthcare professional with experience of the introduction and implementation of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy to join our Quality and Nursing Directorate to cover Maternity leave for one year.

Main Duties of the Job

We are looking for an experienced Patient Safety Specialist who is a motivated, enthusiastic individual who is keen to learn new skills and is passionate about patient safety and embedding a culture of openness and using their experience to work across the breadth of healthcare providers in South East London ICB.

We are looking for individuals with experience in patient safety who will manage and work closely with our Patient Safety Partners, system and regional partners to ensure delivery within South East London of the patient safety strategy.

About Us

The South East London Integrated Care System (ICS) brings together the health and care partners that serve our vibrant and highly diverse populations resident in the London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark - our Places.

Our partnership brings together six local authorities, over 200 general practices (operating within 35 Primary Care Networks), Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS FT, King's College Hospital NHS FT, Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, South London and the Maudsley Mental Health FT and Oxleas FT.

We seek to be connected to the communities we serve and work with the widest possible range of community, voluntary and third sector groups and organisations in each borough.

Job Responsibilities
  1. This role supports the development of a patient safety culture and safety systems and requires sufficient seniority to engage across SEL ICB.
  2. The Patient Safety Specialist will support the implementation of the Patient Safety Strategy to improve understanding of safety and promoting skills and opportunities in patient safety.
  3. The Patient Safety Specialist will work collaboratively with local healthcare organisations to develop links and relationships with patient safety and other relevant leads in networks to share good practice and act collaboratively to improve patient safety.
  4. Work with the Senior Quality Manager and Head of Quality to deliver a robust quality and performance framework that contributes to and supports the assurance processes in place for the ICB.
  5. Work with commissioned providers on clinical quality and patient safety related issues.
  6. Play a lead role in managing, developing, and delivering systems and processes to support the reporting, reviewing, investigation, follow-up, and implementation of actions required in response to reported patient safety incidents of all grades and severity.
  7. Monitor the functioning and effectiveness of quality systems and processes, make recommendations for improvement and work with Senior Managers to develop and implement action plans.
  8. Working with the information and intelligence available work with the senior quality managers to advise the Associate Director and Director of Quality of emerging clinical concerns from analysis of quality alerts, complaints, and patient safety events.
  9. Provide assurance to the quality directorate that commissioning processes are in place that promote quality improvement across the three key dimensions of patient safety, clinical effectiveness, and patient experience.
  10. Ensure that there are systems and processes in place to support and contribute to the development of quality specifications / standards and the collection and analysis of quality related data.
  11. To work co-operatively with senior clinical and corporate teams to enable the achievement of change and the improvement in performance.
  12. Work with NHS England and ICBs to ensure the commissioning of high quality, safe, patient and client-centred services across SEL.
  13. Support the formal assurance process of the ICB.


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