The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in providing expert advice on quality governance and patient safety, analyzing trends from incidents, and promoting a culture of learning within the organisation. They will work closely with various teams to ensure that quality metrics are effectively monitored and reported, driving improvements in service delivery and adherence to the National Patient Safety Strategy. A proactive, adaptable approach is essential to manage the evolving landscape of patient care within the NHS.
A fantastic amd exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated experienced and euthusiastic individual to work witin the insights and learning team
Would you like to be part of a dynamic and highly motivated team to improve patient care, whilst ensuring effective working relationships across the trust. The ideal candidate must have a flexible proactive attitude as they will work alongside the wider Divisional teams across organisational and professional boundaries to support the delivery of high-quality patient centered care.
We are looking for a manager with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. You should have experience and understanding in all aspect of patient safety, demonstrable organisational skills and be able to work autonomously and as part of a team. You must have good and clear leadership skills and evidence of change management practice.
A flexible approach is needed to manage the changing picture in line with the National agenda, driving the services forward to embed all aspects of the National Patient Safety Strategy.
GWH is in an excellent location, convenient for the M4, surrounded by the Wiltshire countryside and with good links to the Cotswolds, Bath, Oxford and Bristol.
The post holder is responsible and accountable for the delivery of elements of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework, including responsibility for managing the incident reporting system; facilitation in responding to patient safety incidents; Patient Safety Incident Investigations and other effective learning responses as defined by the trusts Patient Safety Incident Response Plan and reporting and ensuring that the Trust effectively discharges the legal Duty of Candour and adheres to the involvement and engagement policy as defined by the trust.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring incident reporting and the subsequent learning response processes are embedded within the organisation, providing and evidencing analysis, trends and learning from incidents experienced within the organisation and for raising the profile of incident reporting and the implementation in conjunction with trust identified learning response leads, of improvement actions.
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1. Provide expert advice on Quality Governance / Risk / Patient Safety / Audit / Assurance and support all aspects of Clinical Governance and Patient Safety
2. Develop the consistent and clear use of data to provide assurance and facilitate clinical governance arrangements across the Trust.
3. Monitor the delivery of the Trust Quality Governance framework and oversee routine auditing of the effectiveness of clinical governance arrangements within Divisions (excludes board assurance).
4. Lead the Patient Safety Team to design, implement and maintain quality governance dashboards and reports, data collection tools, reporting and escalation mechanisms across the organisation which facilitate the provision of assurance, transparency and creates an environment where clinical excellence can flourish.
5. Work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to develop and embed the use of the quality metrics that are monitored, reported on an on-going basis in order to assess and develop the quality of services provided and the effectiveness of leaning responses as defined by PSIRF.
6. Lead the Patient Safety Team to work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to ensure that information is available in an appropriate format and timely manner, in order to support delivery on the key components of Quality Governance. Assemble and analyse quantitative and qualitative data information in ways that assist staff in reflecting and improving on service delivery and practice, which is both actionable and measurable.
7. Work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to ensure that constructive challenge is provided to service leads on the delivery of key governance and quality Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s / metrics, escalating to divisional management teams when targets are not met.
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