Corporate Nurse for Patient Safety

4 weeks ago


Wirral, United Kingdom Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

An exciting and diverse opportunity has arisen to appoint a Corporate Nurse for Patient Safety. The successful candidate will join an experienced team of senior Nurses. Prior experience and knowledge of working within a Corporate support setting is desirable but not essential. This role will involve working collaboratively with the Ward Sisters and Senior Nursing Team to support the delivery of effective, high quality, safe, patient centred care across all clinical sites. Data and other sources of intelligence in relation to patient safety will support the role of the Patient Safety Nurse.

The post holder will support the continuing education, training and professional development of staff, including preceptorship and induction of newly qualified nursing staff, promoting the acquisition of new skills and knowledge in any areas of patient safety as they are identified. This will include supporting the organisation with Patient Safety Improvement . The post holder will assist in the development and implementation of appropriate protocols and standard operating procedures and undertake associate clinical audits as directed.

Main duties of the job

Be expected to work flexibly across the service to provide support to all staff with regards to patient safety

Have the ability to act as a mentor and preceptor to newly appointed staff.

Have significant experience and credibility in clinical practice.

Act as a role model and support and promote safe, quality care across the clinical environments.

Assist in the provision of assurance of standards through monitoring including completion of clinical audit and contributing to the development and delivery of audit feedback and action planning.

Practice nursing/clinical care within the clinical governance framework through which the organisation is accountable.

Assist in Patient Safety Investigation Reviews, clinical incidents and near miss events as required and under the direction of the senior team.

Contribute to and assist in the delivery of human factors training - specifically non-technical skills including simulation.

About us

All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as "competent and caring staff" by our patients.

Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.

We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral's only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.

We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.

The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Corporate Nurse for Patient Safety position available at WUTH.

Person Specification

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Essential

NMC registered Educated to degree level

Desirable

Teaching and assessing qualification Leadership & management qualification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Minimum 3 years clinical experience Preceptorship/Mentorship training

Personal Attributes

Essential

Able to communicate within a multidisciplinary team Able to develop and implement training programmes

Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training

Essential

Experience in incident investigation and action plan

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

Clinical audit & action planning Good presentation skills

Desirable

Experience in performance management processes Root cause analysis and incident investigation training Training in human factors/non-technical skills and simulation

Personal Attributes

Essential

Able to deal with complex issues Ability to deal with difficult conversation
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