Head of Patient Safety
6 days ago
Provide patient safety expertise/leadership within the ICB, demonstrating compassionate leadership, visibility and supporting the continued development of the patient safety culture. Oversee and support patient safety improvement, ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in patient safety processes. Ensure the organisation has a robust and effective patient safety implementation plan in place which aligns with the NHS patient safety strategy. Promote patient safety insight as an approach that incorporates understanding all sources of patient safety intelligence, including from incidents, risk assessments, investigations, mortality and morbidity reviews, inquests, research, clinical audits, GIRFT reviews, positive experience, compliments and complaints, litigation, patient and staff surveys, in line with the measurement principles set out in the NHS Patient Safety Strategy.
Ensure information and intelligence from these sources is used as the basis for prioritising local patient safety development and ensuring proposed improvement approaches are based on an understanding of underlying causes. Support / lead multi-professional responses to patient safety incidents, tailoring the different approaches required for new or under-recognised issues and wider patient safety challenges needing long-term improvement, ensuring adherence to national policies and enabling timely and good quality reporting. Support an approach to patient safety that drives improvement across the patient pathway beyond the organisations boundaries, including facilitating multi-agency reviews where required. Support / lead the implementation of continuous improvement of quality and impact of incident investigations, currently through the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) Support (in providers) the Executives systems for the response to National Patient Safety Alerts.
Lead on the escalation and review of Quality risks for the ICB Board Assurance Framework and Risk Register. Articulate emerging risk indicators for approval of the Associate Director of Nursing & Quality. Monitor and review the progress of providers in delivering against quality improvement action plans to demonstrate that change has been successfully implemented. Review, scrutinise, critically appraise, respond to and report on a wide range of insight and evidence in support of quality and patient safety standards, best practice evidence and assurance related to commissioned services and providers.
Work with patient safety and quality colleagues to draw insight from service concerns, complaints, learning responses and other sources of intelligence and ensure that themes and learning inform relevant Programme Boards. Attend contract monitoring boards for provider organisations to report and escalate quality insight within assigned portfolio and inform monitoring and reporting mechanisms to receive assurance from place. Engage where required in completing service reviews and in informing the development of service specifications. Provide forward thinking and compassionate leadership.
Supervise and manage direct reporting roles ensuring that the team are adequately supported to undertake their roles effectively. Lead team member appraisals and revalidation. Deputise for the Associate Director of Nursing & Quality& Patient Safety Specialist as required.
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Head of Patient Safety
6 days ago
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Patient Safety Lead
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Patient Safety
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Head of Institute of Arts and Humanities
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Health And Safety Manager
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Health And Safety Manager
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Head of Worcester Business School
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