Are you ready to take the next step in your career and join our dynamic team in this newly created exciting opportunity within the Board of Surgery and Associated Specialties at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals?
We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, dynamic person who is passionate about improving patient care and clinical outcomes by ensuring quality and safety is an integral part of the patient pathway. We are looking for a candidate with knowledge of risk management, audit, and quality improvement who is passionate about quality and safety to become a patient safety lead within the clinical board.
The patient safety lead will bring clinical leadership experience and excellent interpersonal skills to support the delivery of our clinical board quality and safety strategy. The patient safety lead will work closely with the Medical Quality and Safety Lead and Head of Nursing in collaboration with key stakeholders across the board and wider trust, facilitating the delivery of the patient safety incident framework. As part of this process, it is essential that we develop a robust approach to shared learning across the board; the patient safety lead will play a key role in strengthening our approach to learning for improvement.
* Interview Date: 5 December 2024
* 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and an ambassador for high-quality patient care. It is essential that you bring a flexible and adaptable approach to meet the exciting challenge of this role, supporting the multi-professional team in enhancing quality and improving the patient experience.
* To focus on patient safety by working with all services within the Clinical Board to promote and create a culture of openness, transparency, and collaboration.
* To support the delivery of the quality and safety agenda within the clinical board.
* As a key member of the Quality Oversight Group (QOG) for the Clinical Board, facilitate learning and continual improvement in response to concerns raised, incidents, and complaints, and in doing so create a culture of shared learning.
* Provide leadership, guidance, and support across the Board on all patient safety and clinical governance issues.
Job responsibilities
* Work with all services within the Clinical Board to promote and create a culture of openness, transparency, and collaboration, including ensuring compliance with duty of candour and being open.
* Promote a culture of incident reporting and support investigations into adverse events, incidents, and near misses, identifying systems issues, implementing corrective actions, and facilitating local and organizational learning.
* Participate in and support the embedding of PSIRF within and across the Clinical Board.
* Support the development of a robust patient safety and clinical governance framework within the Board to ensure the provision of safe and high-quality care.
* Collaborate with Quality and Safety leads, Head of Nursing, and Matrons within the board and other stakeholders to champion patient safety initiatives and drive continuous improvement.
* As a key member of the Quality Oversight Group (QOG) for the Clinical Board, facilitate learning and continual improvement in response to concerns raised, incidents, and complaints.
* Assist in the development of cross-cutting policies, procedures, and guidelines that promote a culture of patient safety, risk identification, and mitigation throughout the Clinical Board.
* Understand the highest risks facing the Clinical Board and the potential mitigating actions being put in place to address these.
* Advise on all aspects of clinical governance, clinical risk management, and patient safety.
* Facilitate, develop, and co-ordinate clinical risk management within the Board.
* Promote a positive learning environment where lessons are learnt and changes implemented to ensure a quality service.
* Raise the profile of clinical governance and risk management, highlighting the relationship between patient safety and everyday clinical practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
* Degree level qualification and evidence of CPD.
* Post-graduate qualification to Masters level or significant experience in clinical practice, involvement in developing practice, clinical risk management, and/or clinical audit/QI.
Desirable
* Qualification or CPD relevant to patient safety/clinical governance/quality improvement.
* Masters level qualification in a related topic.
* Management qualification or experience.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
* Proven experience in a clinical leadership role including involvement in incident reporting and investigation.
* In-depth knowledge of clinical governance frameworks, QI methodologies, and patient safety principles.
* Evidence of continuous professional and personal development.
* Project leadership.
* Production of written work to a high standard within tight deadlines.
Desirable
* Evidence of leading programme/programmes of education and/or training.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in person and written.
* Analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, identify trends, and lead data-driven improvement initiatives.
* Presentation skills, computer use including word processing, Excel, and database.
Employer details
Employer name
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Freeman Hospital
317 01 Freeman Hospital
NE7 7DN
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