The purpose of the role is to work at a senior level in the organisation ensuring system level surveillance, identification, and response methodology to patient safety incidents is in line with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
This person will also provide patient, family and staff engagement following a PSI that includes being ‘open and honest’ and providing duty of candour where legally required. The role should support compliance with engagement and duty of candour at a system level.
This post will be a hybrid role requiring the post holder to be able to represent the Trust at all required meetings in the Sussex area.
This is a part time role for 18.75 hours.
In this role you will:
Provide strategic quality, clinical and corporate leadership and advice to the Trust on all matters pertaining to patient safety and care.
Lead on continuous quality improvements in clinical practice, the quality of care provided, and the reduction of clinical risk.
Implement and lead change to deliver the Trust’s Quality and Clinical priorities and Strategy whilst ensuring that robust clinical governance systems are in place.
Work collaboratively with all directorates across the Trust to develop a culture, which enhances patient and staff safety and monitors its effectiveness, promoting a speaking up and just culture.
Provide professional leadership for all clinical staff grades.
Option to join NHS pension scheme
A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.
Personal and professional development and training opportunities.
Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.
Access to occupational health and counselling services.
Award winning wellbeing hub
Back up buddy App
Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.
Liaise with stakeholders (internal / external) and agree terms of reference for responses , o ffering support and guidance to teams and managers on process.
Be a panel member for the Incident Response Group (IRG) and undertake investigations as a lead investigator.
Assist in the supporting of staff who are subject to incidents being investigated, ensuring regular feedback whilst encouraging a culture of openness and support.
Develop, deliver, and evaluate appropriate training to staff on PSIRF.
Complete reviews and work with the management team to produce action plans including the production of trust-wide safety improvement plans to address key learning themes and measure the test of effectiveness.
Monitor and assist with the collection of evidence for learning action plans.
Contribute towards documents written for Trust Board, SQCG, IRG and PSOG including other collaborative groups, as required.
To be the single point of contact, to those affected, including staff, patients, and families in the broadest sense; that is, the person or patient (the individual) to whom the patient safety incident occurred, their family and close relationships.
Ensure that deadlines and quality targets are achieved in relation to incident investigations, action plan outcomes and Duty of Candour requirements detailed in the National Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
Responsible for the operational management of the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Plan programme.
To produce and present a monthly IRG report to the system based Clinical Quality Governance Group.
To support (and deputise in the absence of) the Patient Safety Learning and Governance Lead to present completed reports to the Patient Safety Oversight Group (PSOG) for approval.
To prepare, present, attend and report back on all matters involved in the weekly IRG meetings, and deputise for colleagues during their absence on a needs basis.
To ensure that patients, carers, staff, and external organisations as appropriate, receive copies of completed reports and be able to support all key individuals through the process dealing sensitively and proactively to requests.
The post holder will support the investigators on a case-by-case basis to ensure a proportionate response has been completed; this will include undertaking (where required) and providing support and guidance for Duty of Candour and Being Open calls, and face to face meetings with patients, carers, relatives, and staff.
To work autonomously or, where necessary, work in conjunction with colleagues and escalate identified risks to the Head of Patient Safety / Patient Safety specialist(s)
Keep up to date with developments both nationally and locally in relation to the identification and management of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
The post holder must be able to negotiate with senior managers to ensure system deadlines are met in relation to investigations and learning responses.
Surveillance and interpret national policy, guidance, and external issues that might impact on quality and patient safety issues. To further identify emerging trends and new issues; and to develop informed reports and summaries for the directorate’s senior leadership and executive management team as appropriate.
To establish collegial links with Patent safety leads across the system-based providers, working collaboratively whenever possible to ensure comprehensive investigations undertaken.
