We are looking to recruit a Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness.
We welcome applications from colleagues working at Band 8 or above. If you would like an informal conversation about the position, please contact sara.barr-frost@nhs.net.
This is a central role and input will be into corporate and clinical teams across the Trust.
The teams in this portfolio include Patient Safety, Serious Incident Investigators, Clinical Effectiveness, Resuscitation, and Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression teams.
As an organisation-wide post, the post holder will work very closely with all clinical and non-clinical staff across the organisation in order to:
1. Develop, implement and sustain the Trust’s clinical governance and quality programmes.
2. Co-ordinate and strategically lead the Trust’s patient safety, clinical effectiveness and audit department, ensuring the development, planning and implementation of these aspects of the Trust’s clinical and quality governance programme.
3. Lead the patient safety and clinical effectiveness teams in planning and implementing a range of effective service developments, working closely with Network Directors, nurses, and clinicians to improve patient care/safety and enhance clinical practice.
4. Collaborate with the Clinical and Governance Team and Network Triumvirates.
5. Provide responses in partnership with the networks for all requests for information or submissions to NHSI, CQC, HSE, and NHSLA.
6. Develop and devise the Patient Safety and associated policies across the organisation by leading a programme that recognises, reports, analyses, evaluates, and minimises risk throughout the organisation.
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Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness
1. Strategically lead and manage the Trust’s patient safety and clinical effectiveness team, having overall responsibility for strategy, policy, and service development in relation to the Trust’s patient safety and clinical effectiveness agenda.
2. Lead the Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Team in planning and implementing a range of effective service developments, working closely with care hub managers and clinicians to improve clinical practice.
3. Responsible for the formulation of the Trust’s strategic plans for patient safety.
4. Responsible for all patient safety and clinical effectiveness reporting for the Trust.
5. Ensure maintenance and monitoring of clinical standards, including the development and implementation of strategies and systems for evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness, clinical standards, and national performance indicators, including NICE guidance.
6. Provide highly specialist advice, support, and guidance to clinicians regarding patient safety evidence-based practice and the development of guidelines for specific patient groups, maintaining governance standards across the organisation.
7. Co-ordinate special investigations into serious clinical incidents/adverse events, gaining the cooperation of senior clinicians involved in any serious event, analysing findings, and producing recommendations for changes in practice.
8. Responsible for the delivery of training on patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
9. Liaise closely with the executive team and the Trust’s network directors in the implementation of patient safety, audit, and clinical effectiveness across the organisation.
Co-ordination and Strategic Management
1. Co-ordinate and strategically manage clinical effectiveness and patient safety.
2. Responsible for strategic planning and development of new reporting and feedback systems and for developing Trust strategy on patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
Safe, Effective, Experience
1. Participate in the Trust Patient Safety Walk round Programme, triangulating patient safety data to develop ward profiles and linking with Head of Nursing, Head of Allied Health Professionals, Associate Directors, and Network Director of Operations, Network Directors of Nursing and Quality to highlight patient safety issues in patient areas.
2. Develop and undertake a programme of compliance visits in patient areas across the Trust to support the compliance agenda.
3. Escalate any issues identified during compliance visits appropriately.
4. Work with the Trust Heads of Quality to support ward managers, senior nurses, and clinical leads on compliance with any safety or quality programme as required.
5. Collaborate with other internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and best practices approaches to compliance initiatives.
6. Undertake regular horizon scanning to keep up to date with governance initiatives and forthcoming policy developments.
Patient Safety
1. Develop the patient safety strategy and agenda.
2. Provide expert advice to the executive team and Trust Board.
3. Ensure the timely review of the Patient Safety Strategy.
4. Compile and monitor implementation of an annual work plan for risk.
5. Ensure learning from incident reporting and risk assessments is incorporated into an interactive process to ensure learning is assimilated across the Trust.
6. Develop structured training programmes and briefings for promoting the importance of clinical/non-clinical risk and incident management.
7. Ensure that compliance and assurance information is utilized as assurance for identified risks.
8. Ensure that compliance visits and support are risk-based.
Leadership/Management
1. Provide leadership and direction to Networks in monitoring, managing, and maintaining local judgement frameworks to support evidence of local compliance.
2. Provide leadership and direction to direct line reports.
3. Manage sickness, absence, and leave in accordance with Trust policy.
4. Complete appraisals and staff PDR aligning service objectives to the role, responsibility, and strategic direction of the Trust.
5. Responsible for direct management and recruitment and retention of: Audit & Effectiveness Team, Patient Safety Team.
6. Provide leadership and expert technical support to the clinical governance team and to other senior managers and clinicians across the Trust in relation to clinical governance, clinical risk, and effectiveness and patient and public involvement.
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