Job summary
NHS Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board (ICB) is a statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of our communities, managing the NHS budget, and arranging for the provision of joined up health services which improve the lives of people who live and work in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
By collaborating as an integrated care system (ICS) our health and care organisations can tackle complex challenges, including:
improving the health of children and young people
supporting people to stay well and independent
acting sooner to help those with preventable conditions
supporting those with long-term conditions or mental health issues
caring for those with multiple needs as populations age
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic team of clinicians working to ensure that residents of Cornwall and Isles of Scilly receive high quality, safe, clinically effective care and support whilst positively experiencing care that is personal to their needs. Are you an experienced nurse or allied health professional with an enquiring agile mind? Are you looking to use your clinical and patient safety experience to improve care to the population? Are you looking for a role that is diverse and challenging? If so, we would love to hear from you.
Please contact Lisa Nightingale, Head of Clinical Quality & Patient Safety Specialist on 07766733804 for further enquiries
Main duties of the job
The Patient Safety Specialist will work to support the Quality team in ensuring that the people of CIOS experience the best possible quality and safety of services, clinical outcomes and patient experience wherever they interface with health and care providers. You will provide expert support to the organisation and system, and as per statutory requirements, will have direct access to the executive team, facilitating the escalation of patient safety issues or concerns. You will play a key role in the development of a patient safety culture, safety systems and improvement activity.
You will be the lead named Patient Safety Specialist in the organisation, leading on patient safety improvement activity, ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and "just culture" principles are embedded in all patient safety processes across the CIO system. As a leader for patient safety in the organisation, they will work with many people who already have specific patient safety responsibilities. The role does not diminish the fundamental principle that patient safety is everyone's responsibility, therefore a key element of the role is to weave patient safety processes and concepts into the decision making and assurance processes of the organisation and CIOS system.
The post holder will be fully trained (or undertake training) in the National patient safety syllabus in order to provide consistency across the CIOS system in its approach to patient safety.
About us
We are committed to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment and are always keen to hear from people who would like to work with us. We welcome applications from everyone regardless of age, disability or long-term health condition, gender identity or expression, race or ethnicity, faith, sex, sexuality or veteran status.
We are looking for people whose personal values and behaviours align with the NHS values outlined in the NHS Constitution and our own values and behaviours.
You can look forward to excellent benefits including discounts schemes, optional pension and life assurance, flexible working, salary sacrifice vehicles and cycles and much more
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached job description and person specification for more specific information about this post.
The attached job description is currently awaiting job matching prior to final confirmation of the banding.
For hybrid working we offer the flexibility to work from an office (Bodmin, Truro), and from home, depending on the requirements of the team.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
1. Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
2. A professional clinical qualification and current registration with the relevant professional body.
3. Able to demonstrate compassion in the workplace with a track record of active challenge to support improvements in equality, diversity, inclusion, and/or social justice.
4. Demonstrates the living values of openness and integrity, contributing to cultures where this thrives.
5. Experience of working at a senior level in the specialist area of patient safety
6. Experience of strategy development.
7. Knowledge of quality improvement methodologies
8. Evidence of post qualifying continuous professional development.
9. Understanding of the background to aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
10. Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
11. Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution/information is missing or conflicting.
12. Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.