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Main area: Clinical Governance Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract: Permanent Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Base at JR: hybrid of working from home and office is possible) Job ref: 321-CORP-7116219-B6-PUB
Site: John Radcliffe Hospital Town: Headington Salary: Dependant on experience Closing: 30/04/2025 23:59 Interview date: 16/05/2025
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
Job overview
This role will be working closely with the Senior Patient Safety Advisor, Patient Safety Manager, Head of Clinical Governance, and Deputy Chief Medical Officers to identify and manage incidents and require further discussion in a weekly meeting, to consider learning response options under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). The appointee will also work with colleagues throughout the Trust in managing patient safety, ensuring that systems are in place to support a culture of open reporting and investigation. The appointee will provide support to the Divisional governance teams and Trust managers with any aspects of patient safety as well as assisting in the development and delivery of training programmes. With colleagues, the appointee will review learning response outcomes to ensure systemic issues are identified and appropriate actions planned to prevent a reoccurrence and enable learning to be shared across the Trust. The post-holder will work under the guidance of the Senior Patient Safety Advisor.
If you are offered an interview, there will be 3 parts to the selection process:
1. A technical interview
2. A values-based interview
3. A short test
Main duties of the job
* Evaluate the impact of the incidents.
* Co-ordinate and manage the weekly Safety, Learning & Improvement Conversation (SLIC), this will include:
* Identifying incidents to be considered for further review
* Drafting an agenda to be shared with the SLIC chair
* Managing the administration of the SLIC meeting which will include creating the agenda, collating papers, taking minutes, and creating the weekly SLIC learning slide.
* Attend the Patient Safety Response meetings roughly twice a week and document the outcomes on the clinical incident forms.
* Maintain the investigation logs.
* Maintain a close working relationship with Legal Services, Complaints, Tissue Viability, Information Governance, and Safeguarding to ensure effective communication about patient safety incidents and investigations.
* Attend a weekly meeting to triangulate with legal cases, safeguarding issues, complaints, and patient feedback.
* Maintain links with Health & Safety locally to ensure that relevant aspects are communicated, eg potential Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations cases.
* Liaise with the Assurance Team, the Integrated Care Board, and NHS England to ensure that any documents they request related to incidents are edited and shared, and response to Freedom of Information requests.
* Provide evidence and an audit trail for the completion of Duty of Candour.
Person specification
* Excellent oral and written communication skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Ability to deal with disagreement and conflict
* Experience of working closely with colleagues of varying seniority
* Proficient in use of Microsoft Office software
* Understanding of NHS structure and processes including commissioning and evolving governmental approaches
* Understanding of the respective roles of CQC, NHS England, MHRA, NICE, HSSIB, and other governmental and non-governmental healthcare organisations.
* Knowledge of PSIRF
* Specialist risk qualification
* Experience of working in patient safety
* Experience working in the NHS
* Data analysis experience
* Knowledge of wider clinical governance issues, eg audit, mortality reviews
* Human factors/ after action review/ PSIRF investigation training
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Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks.
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