Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness

We are looking to recruit a Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness.
This is a central role and input will be into corporate and clinical teams across the Trust.
The teams in this portfolio includes Patient Safety, Serious Incident Investigators, Clinical Effectiveness, Resuscitation and Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression teams.
Organisation-wide post, the post holder will work very closely with all clinical and non-clinical staff across the organisation in order to:
- Develop, implement and sustain the Trust’s clinical governance and quality programmes.
- Co-ordinate and strategically lead the Trust’s patient safety, clinical

effectiveness and audit department and have overall responsibility for
ensuring the development, planning and implementation of these aspects of the Trust’s clinical and quality governance programme.
- Lead the patient safety and clinical effectiveness teams in planning and

implementing a range of effective service developments and working in close collaboration with Network Directors, nurses and clinicians to improve patient care/safety and enhance clinical practice.
- Work in close collaboration with the Clinical and Governance Team and

Network Triumvirates.
- To provide responses in partnership with the networks for all requests for information or submissions to NHSI, CQC, HSE and NHSLA.
- To develop and devise the Patient Safety and any associated policies across the organisation by leading a programme which recognises, reports, analyses, evaluates and minimises risk throughout the organisation.

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Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness
- Strategically lead and manage the Trust’s patient safety and clinical

effectiveness team and have overall responsibility for strategy, policy and
service development in relation to the Trust’s patient safety, clinical
effectiveness agenda across the organisation.
- Lead the Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Team in planning and

implementing a range of effective service developments and working in close collaboration with care hub managers and clinicians to improve clinical practice.
- Responsible for the formulation of the Trust’s strategic plans for patient safety.
- Responsible for all patient safety and clinical effectiveness reporting for the Trust
- Responsible for ensuring maintenance and monitoring of clinical standards, including the development and implementation of strategies and systems for evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness, clinical standards and national performance (clinical) indicators, including NICE guidance.
- Provide highly specialist advice, support and guidance to clinicians in relation to a range of issues including: patient safety evidence based practice and the development of guidelines for specific patient groups maintaining of governance standards across the organisation.
- Co-ordinate special investigations into serious clinical incidents/adverse events. Gain the co-operation of senior clinicians involved in any serious

event. Analyse and interpret findings and produce recommendations to
changes in practice.
- Responsible for the delivery of training across on patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
- Liaise closely with the executive team and the Trust’s network directors in the implementation of patient safety, audit and clinical effectiveness across the organisation.

Co-ordination and strategic management
- Co-ordinate and strategically manage the clinical effectiveness, and patient safety.
- Responsible for strategic planning and development of new reporting and feedback systems and for developing Trust strategy on patient safety and clinical effectiveness.

Safe, Effective, Experience
- Participate in the Trust Patient Safety Walk round Programme - triangulating patient safety data to develop ward profiles and linking with Head of Nursing, Head of Allied Health Professionals, Associate Directors and Network Director of Operations, Network Directors of Nursing and Quality to highlight patient safety issues in patient areas:

- Develop and undertake a programme of compliance visits in patient areas across the Trust to support the compliance agenda;
- Escalate any issues identified during compliance visits appropriately;
- Work with the Trust Heads of Quality to support wards managers, senior nurses and clinical leads on compliance with any safety or quality programme as required eg AIMS etc.
- Work in collaboration with other internal and external stakeho