An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented, visionary individual with widespread experience in the field of Patient Safety. We are looking for an experienced and innovative leader who will support Clinical, Quality and Governance teams in their ambitions to embed the organisational Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP). The postholder will have proven leadership skills and experience of working at a senior level, be highly visible, and be able to motivate and engage individuals and teams across the organisation. With demonstrable and extensive investigation and learning response expertise and experience, the successful applicant will hold a well-developed skillset to help advance the delivery of the organisational commitment to drive continuous learning and improvement.
The Patient Safety Manager will be responsible for the co-ordination, implementation and continuous development of a patient safety environment and culture.
The Patient Safety Manager will work with a range of internal and external stakeholders to investigate, analyse and use judgement through the collation of evidence and findings from examination of records, review of best practice, policy and guidance and speaking with individuals. The outcome will be the production of a timely high-quality report. The Patient Safety Manager will be required to analyse and interpret complex clinical situations and arrive at well thought out risk assessed decisions in a short period of time. The report findings, recommendations and SAMRT action plans will be shared with a number of stakeholders e.g. families, staff, commissioners and coroners.
The Patient Safety Manager will support the development of improvement actions and the embedding of learning and any practice or service changes that are required, and will provide organisation wide training and guidance relating to patient safety incident investigation, human factors, Just Culture and duty of candour.
For a complete job description and detailed person specification for this role, please see the attached document.