Quality and Safety Team Coordinator

5 days ago


Chertsey, Surrey, United Kingdom Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Summary

The post holder will provide administrative support to the central patient safety team and the bereavement office, ensuring the smooth delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and other quality improvement initiatives.

Main DutiesGeneral Responsibilities
  • Maintain patient confidentiality and adhere to Trust information governance practices.
  • Complete mandatory and statutory training.
  • Prioritise and manage workload without direct supervision.
  • Support the Quality Department and Organisation by carrying out any other duties as qualified and able.
  • Adhere to a smart dress code.
  • Develop and promote effective interpersonal/working relationships with all staff within the hospital and external personnel.
  • Minimise the Trust's environmental impact wherever possible.
  • Undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.
Job ResponsibilitiesSupport to Patient Safety Team
  • Support the delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and standards.
  • Develop and maintain a centralised log of safety actions and quality improvement projects following safety incidents.
  • Ensure the centralised log is regularly updated with progress on actions and actions are closed in a timely manner.
  • Ensure test of effectiveness is completed prior to the closure of actions / projects.
  • Identify and highlight duplicate actions and quality improvement projects.
  • Identify and highlight any safety action trends and themes.
  • Ensure evidence to support completion of safety actions and test of effectiveness is uploaded to the incident reporting system.
  • Monitor timescales for incident response completion.
  • Support the preparation of agendas, minutes, action logs and papers for patient safety meetings and learning responses.
  • Monitoring and actioning emails to the patient safety team inbox.
  • Undertake general administrative duties to support the Head of Patient Safety photocopying, scanning and uploading of documents.
  • Support the preparation of letters to families about ongoing incident investigations / learning response.
  • Managing the Patient Safety Team diary; making, changing and managing meeting and training invites.
  • Develop good working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Support the management of incidents using the incident reporting system (datix).
  • Develop audit tools and collect data to support the completion of patient safety reports.
  • Support the development and delivery of patient safety training.
  • Support the development of local policies and procedures.
  • Support the cascade of safety alerts and monitoring of actions.
Support to Bereavement Office
  • Be kind, caring, empathetic and compassionate towards bereaved relatives.
  • Draw upon an understanding of spiritual, cultural and religious needs to provide a person-centred approach to guide bereaved families and can deal sensitively with their emotional distress.
  • To keep clear accurate records relating to each death at the Trust, deceased patients property and making the relevant post death notifications (to the GP).
  • Signpost relatives to appropriate bereavement services and resources.
  • Arrange appointments for bereaved families with viewing of their loved ones.
  • Facilitate the release of the deceased to a funeral director.
  • Facilitate the release of property and valuables to relatives and manage unclaimed property.
  • Co-ordinate proceedings in the event of an infant death including: Liaising directly with the Labour Ward, Birth Reflections Team, Bereavement Midwives or appropriate department to ensure that all paperwork relating to an infant death is correctly completed Arranging appropriate transport for babies/foetuses to and from the hospital at which the postmortem is to be carried out.
  • Attempting to trace a persons next of kin.
  • To support the Mortality Improvement Lead in the preparation and submission of evidence for annual assessments / key performance indicators.
  • Be fully conversant with all relevant national and local Policies and Guidelines.
  • Access regular supervision and support via their line manager to support them with the emotional aspects of the role.
About Us

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

  • Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement.
  • On-site Nurseries.
  • On-site staff cafes.
  • On-site parking.
  • Support in career development.
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics.

For more information about a career at ASPH please refer to our website.



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