Associate Director for Patient Safety and Quality

Reporting to the Deputy Chief Nurse and working closely with the Chief Nurse and Executive Medical Director the post holder will provide strong professional leadership across the scope of the patient safety and quality agenda to ensure high quality safe clinical care is delivered consistently across the Trust working collaboratively with all colleagues to support the delivery of safe care.

The post holder will work collaboratively to lead the direction of the Trust’s Quality Strategy ensuring frameworks are in place with effective processes, systems and training to support our people to implement these frameworks to ensure safe, high-quality care for patients.

Demonstrate compassionate leadership and support the continued development of a patient safety culture.
- Work closely with colleagues to develop one culture of care approach across the Trust aligned to the principles of a Just and Learning organisation.
- Lead on the implementation and embedding of the Patient Safety incident response framework (PSIRF).
- To be the recognised expert leading on patient safety
- Work with colleagues across the organisation to develop clinical dashboards to support the consistent measuring and monitoring of patient safety data across the Trust, with a focus on improvement planning to ensure learning and change when required
- Work in partnership with other Executive Directors and their teams to provide professional support in relation to the post holders responsibilities.
- To support the Chief Nurse and Executive Medical Director in the delivery of the Trust strategic objectives
- Lead on the approach aligned with PSIRF to learning from incidents, complaints, coroner’s inquests, clinical audit and other sources, ensuring that executive directors are sighted on relevant themes and improvement plans.
- To particularly maintain relationships with the coroner’s office and the Trust solicitors in relation to patient safety issues and to ensure that appropriate legal advice and guidance is embedded into future policies and processes
- Provide oversight and support in relation to all aspects of regulatory inspections and compliance.


We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Operationally responsible for the team as identified in the corporate structure, specifically line managing the Head of Risk and Compliance, Head of Quality and Safety, Head of Legal Services, Head of PALS & Complaint, Senior CQC & Compliance Manager and the Matron for patient safety and quality.

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