Head of Patient Safety and Governance

3 days ago

North Shields, North Tyneside, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Title: Head of Patient Safety and Governance

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly motivated and experienced professional to lead our Patient Safety and Governance function. As Head of Patient Safety and Governance, you will play a critical role in ensuring the Trust has a continuous 'forward look' in implementing patient safety and clinical governance strategies.

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing effective strategies and operational policies for promoting patient safety and innovation across the Trust. This will involve working closely with colleagues across the sector to ensure coherent strategy and:

  • Accountability for legal responsibilities in delivering statutory patient safety duties for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in line with national requirements and regulatory bodies.
  • Providing independent expertise and guidance for the purposes of maintaining patient safety, encompassing a whole healthcare system approach.
  • Leading on a Trust-wide approach to patient safety incidents, including the development and implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).
  • Developing and communicating the vision for the role of innovation, and the development of patient safety strategy and operational policies to support this vision.
  • Monitoring compliance and evaluating impact by scrutinising process, whilst ensuring business units are responsive and accountable to patients, the public and wider stakeholders to continuously improve quality, safety and a culture of improvement.
  • Working with the business units and the Board to ensure information and intelligence from incidents and emerging patient safety issues are used as the basis for wider patient safety best practice. Engaging with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of national strategy and policies.
  • Providing expertise of best practice methodologies, regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge.
  • Taking responsibility for the overall leadership and management and associated staff within a given portfolio.
  • Being responsible for the provision of synthesizing best evidence available, clinical advice operations and performance information, organisational and policy context and information on related activities from across the health and social care system into a coherent strategy.
  • Demonstrating robust quality governance and clinical compliance, policies and programmes of work in line with the trust quality strategy.

The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree and a postgraduate professional/specialist management qualification, with evidence of progressive career development and successful achievement of change management. If you are a motivated and committed Senior Leader who is passionate about patient safety and clinical governance, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity.

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