Womens and Children’s Patient Safety Lead

2 weeks ago

StocktononTees, United Kingdom North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an individual with a passion for Patient Safety. This role will manage the Patient Safety Team within the Women and Children's Directorate to ensure the effective resolution of directorate complaints and legal processes. The successful individual will be responsible for promoting a safe, quality and learning culture across the directorate while keeping in mind national requirements and safety drivers that are prevalent for the services within the directorates - specifically Maternity and Paediatrics.

**The role will involve**:

- Promoting a safety and quality culture across the directorates of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Paediatrics and Neonatology (Womens and Children’s), taking a lead in supporting local investigations and responses to incidents.
- Co-ordinating and being an effective leader with the patient safety and quality agenda within the directorate and the directorates representative at the Patient Safety Team meetings.
- Overseeing effective delivery of the directorate complaints and legal processes working through patient safety coordinators for Womens and Children’s
- Promoting learning following patient safety adverse events, complaints and litigation; support changes in practices to prevent recurrences.
- Leading on the patient safety processes for the directorate to develop, maintain and monitor its process. To co-ordinate and lead the team to provide reports and summaries from national recommendations, and action plans for the directorates and associated meetings within the Trust.
- Supporting the integration of the requirements of external reporting. Encourage a research conscious workforce to increase the use of evidence based practices within the directorates.
- Collating and analysing information and provide detailed reports to the Directorates Forums, including the Clinical Directors, Operational Manager and Head of Midwifery.
- Deputising for the Safety, Quality and Governance Lead when needed.

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We recruit for values and “Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool”

Please see attached job description that outlines the job purpose, key result areas, responsibilities and associated information relevant to the role.

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