Provide patient safety expertise/leadership within the organisation; demonstrating compassionate leadership, visibility and supporting the continued development of the patient safety culture. The post holder will lead, enable and facilitate change within the patient safety arena to deliver innovative ways of working that are patient safety centered. The post holder will manage the the patient safety budget. Responsible for ensuring that there are organisational effective systems and processes are in place for the management of incidents and the use of the Ulysses system, ensuring a sound system exists in line with national guidance. As a senior manager in the patient safety team, ensure ongoing monitoring against all required standards and approprately escalate any concerns to the management team, where a service falls below those standards, ensure the production of a comprehensive action plan, and ongoing assurance of delivery of the required action plan, to help eliminate poor quality care and improve service delivery and compliance. Oversee the implementation of Patient Safety Incident Response Plan. Identify and provide clear rationale for locally defined incidents requiring local Patient Safety Incident Investigation (PSII) approval. Complete training needs analysis to enable the delivery of the response plan. Work autonomously as an investigator and in conjunction with subject matter experts and clinical colleagues. Responsible for the management of day to day overview of investigations. Manage a complex workload to tight deadlines and meet the requirements of a large number of stakeholders with minimal supervision. Provide management and leadership to the Patient Safety team. Work in collaboration and partnership with other key stakeholders to coordinate events around patient safety priorities including falls, pressure damage and infection, prevention and control. Use highly developed motivational skills to encourage collaborative working. Will gather and analyse a variety of data in different formats from a number of sources to identify patient safety related trends and themes and prioritise them for targeted action. Please note the person spec asks for a car driver - this should read as abilty to travel between trust sites