The Patient Safety team at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our team in the role of Patient Safety Manager.
As the ideal candidate you should have a sound knowledge of the national patient safety strategy, PSIRF and a track record in delivering improvement in quality. You will also have excellent team and communication skills to enable you to influence and encourage working to enhance the safety of patients.
Reporting to the Head of Risk and Patient Safety, the Patient Safety Manager is responsible for ensuring that systems and processes are in place to monitor patient safety with an emphasis on learning from incidents and responding to national safety alerts.
The role will also include the delivery of the Trust patient safety and quality priorities, promotion of a safety culture that emphasises learning (including shared learning) and direct support to staff undertaking learning responses and thematic reviews.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
The role of Patient Safety Manager will promote a culture in which reporting of incidents and learning is routine practice and recognised by staff as improving the quality of clinical care and reducing risks.
The post-holder will work autonomously and will lead on the development, management and support mechanisms for learning from patient safety events in line with the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Policy and Plan and excellence in practice.
The post-holder will be responsible for the collection and analysis of complex information from a number of sources, and producing high quality investigation reports alongside developing an implementation plan working in collaboration with relevant professional and governance leads
The post-holder will support Care Groups in patient safety improvement activities with the aim of proactively reducing risks to patient safety and unanticipated adverse events. They will actively participate as a member of the Patient Safety Team to ensure compliance with regulatory and statutory requirements.
The post-holder will work across the organisation, providing support, expert advice and guidance to the Care Groups, Corporate Nursing and Medical Directorate teams on the delivery of sustained continuous patient safety and quality improvements.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Mar 2025