Assistant Director of Patient Safety

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The purpose of this role is to coordinate and lead the Trust's patient safety and risk agenda role under the direction of the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer (Director of Quality and Safety).

The post holder will also ensure that relevant patient safety, risk management and improvement initiatives are undertaken to enhance patient safety. The post holder will manage the Patient Safety team, providing operational support to the divisions in delivering the quality agenda.

As a Patient Safety Specialist you will be supported to develop into an expert advisor on patient safety and risk management, ensuring compliance with legislative requirements, national and local policy, responsible for ensuring that the patient safety agenda and risk management is embedded throughout the organisation by providing support, advice and guidance on all aspects of risk and patient safety.

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate management, leadership or specialist qualification or previous experience
• Educated to master's level in risk, safety or equivalent level, or equivalent experience of working at a senior level

Desirable criteria

• Clinical professional qualification
• PSIRF training / Systems training
• Human Factors training
• Quality improvement qualification or previous experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience of leading a patient safety and risk management team within the NHS.
• Experience of working in a patient safety-related role with an understanding of the principles that underpin approaches to improving patient safety in health systems
• Experience of leading incident investigations
• Previous experience in developing and implementing organisation wide projects.
• Experience in developing, Trust wide policies.
• Demonstrable evidence of initiating change and implementing evidence-based practice.
• Management of a Risk Management system such as Datix.
• Experience of working collaboratively with patients/service/ stakeholders to improve quality of service by co-design
• Experience and knowledge of the components of clinical governance, incident response, risk management and assurance function; current NHS national policies, standards, requirements, and directions that relate to measuring and improving the quality and safety of patient care
• Knowledge of the NHS patient safety strategy and how it can be implemented
• Knowledge of systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles

Desirable criteria

• A good understanding of the strategic issues currently shaping the NHS.
• Knowledge and experience of developments in quality improvement science
• Previous experience in developing and implementing a risk management strategy.
• Experience in project/change management in a healthcare environment and driving improvement for the safety of patients which can include techniques and tools such as Agile, Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects
• Knowledge of safeguarding and the legal duties expected of NHS organisations

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• A good grasp of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
• A good understanding of the patient Safety Partner Role
• Ability to interpret complex information (including patient safety incident data, administrative data, mortality data) that may conflict and where expert opinion may differ
• Specialist clinical quality and patient safety knowledge.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Highly developed project management skills.
• Ability to prioritise against tight deadlines.
• IT proficiency.
• High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources draw appropriate conclusions and present in a clear concise manner
• Ability to get a grip on short and long term priorities in order to provide clear direction and targets.
• Ability to work on own initiative - a proactive self-starter.
• Credibility with clinical colleagues
• Drive and energy to facilitate service change.
• Industrious with a commitment to deliver to demanding timescales.
• Calm, tenacious and focussed under pressure.
• Understanding of and familiarity with clinical terminology and processes.
• In depth knowledge of NHSLA / CNST Risk Management Standards, and CQC Essential Standards of Quality & Safety.
• Proven knowledge of clinical and non clinical risk management and related issues.
• Understanding of health care environment.

Desirable criteria

• Working knowledge of the collaborative approach to improvement.
• Line management skills.
• Motivation to improve performance in the health service.
• Appreciation of performance agenda

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 608.3KB)
• CLCH Trust Values (PDF, 784.3KB)