Job Summary
Patient Safety Investigator - Part Time - 18.75 hours per week
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust's (BDCFT's) Patient Safety, Compliance and Risk function sits within the Directorate of Nursing and is comprised of distinct but inter-related teams:
1. Patient Safety
2. Patient Advice and Complaints
3. Patient Experience and Involvement
4. Risk Management and Clinical Audit
5. Quality Assurance
6. Legal Services
The Patient Safety team is required to set the strategic direction for patient safety, to deliver on reactive and proactive aspects of patient safety improvement work and to deliver education and training to enable and support front line staff to keep patients and staff safer.
Main Duties of the Job
The job purpose for the Patient Safety Investigator is to lead Patient Safety Incident Response and Complaints investigations and reviews within the Trust. The key objective of the investigation is to identify underlying system factors that contributed to an incident, complaint or patient safety event. These findings are then used to identify effective, sustainable improvements by combining learning across multiple patient safety incident investigations and other responses into a similar incident type.
The Investigator will work in line with Being Open and Duty of Candour principles, ensuring appropriate investigation/review methodology and systems-based approach to support the Trust's patient safety improvement work. This includes developing a culture of continuous learning and improvement and one where staff feel psychologically safe to raise patient safety concerns; by ensuring responses to incidents and complaints are compassionate, effective, fair and consistent. The postholder will also support the process of learning from incidents, complaints and audit outcomes and ensure these inform organisation wide improvement programmes and learning and development activities.
The post holder is accountable to the Senior Patient Safety Manager and will be required to deputise for them.
About Us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values:
1. We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
2. We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
3. We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including:
* Increase mileage rates for > 3500
* A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
* A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
* Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Right to Work in the UK
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa. Prior to your appointment you will be asked to provide confirmation of your right to work and reside in the UK. During your continued employment with the Trust, you have a personal responsibility to notify your manager as soon as possible should there be any changes to your right to work status. Regrettably, if the role is not eligible for sponsorship under the Trust's eligibility criteria, the Trust is unable to extend your employment beyond the expiration of your current visa. The Trust is not responsible or liable for ensuring that your employment continues after this period. As a condition of continuous employment, it is essential you maintain the legal right to work in the United Kingdom throughout the duration of your employment with Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust (BDCFT). Any change in your right-to-work status, including but not limited to visa expiration, revocation, or denial of renewal, may impact your eligibility for employment with the Trust. It is your responsibility to promptly inform your Line Manager of any changes in your right-to-work status immediately and to provide necessary documentation for verification purposes. Failure to obtain or renew your visa in a timely manner is a breach of employment conditions and will result in termination of your employment. We appreciate your attention to this matter and your commitment to fulfilling this requirement promptly.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience
* Post graduate qualification/evidence of study at post graduate level in clinical risk
* Registered Healthcare Professional or relevant experience of working alongside and influencing the practice of clinicians.
Desirable
* Teaching qualification
* Training in Being Open
* Leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience
* Evidence of study at Masters level
* Trained in Investigations and/or Patient Safety incident response methodologies
Experience
Essential
* Over two years clinical leadership/management experience
* Experience of undertaking patient safety incident/complaint investigations
* Evidence of ability to undertake complex investigations and produce high quality reports
* Minimum of five years of ongoing clinical practice experience or influencing the practice of clinicians within health services
* Experience in the handling of confidential information and dealing with confidential issues
* Experience in the use of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Desirable
* Implementing investigation systems and methodologies
* Experience of staff management
* Experience of using electronic information
* Proven track record of change management and problem solving
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer Details
Employer Name
Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Home/Agile/Travel across all trust locations
New Mill, Victoria Road
Bradford
BD18 3LD
Employer's Website
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