Patient Safety Manager

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Job overview

This role is only open to applicants that currently work within an NHS Trust within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (HIOW ICS).

The Patient Safety and Governance team at Hampshire Hospitals NHS FT (HHFT) is seeking an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our team in the role of Patient Safety Manager. You will champion and promote patient safety improvement across the Trust and lead on the Learning from Deaths processes.

As the ideal candidate you should have a sound knowledge of the national patient safety strategy, PSIRF and a track record in delivering improvements. You will also have excellent team and communication skills to enable you to influence and encourage working to enhance the safety of patients. A professional clinical qualification / background is required for this position.

Main duties of the job

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 deaths, learning from incidents and responding to national safety alerts.

The role will also include the delivery of the Trust patient safety priorities, promotion of a safety culture that emphasises learning (including shared learning) and direct support to staff undertaking learning responses and thematic reviews.

The post holder will be an expert in the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and will assist the Associate Director of Governance and Head of Patient Safety and Risk to deliver the Trust safety strategy.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs over 8,600 staff and has a turnover of over £450 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

We expect the post holder to uphold the trust's CARE values:

COMPASSION caring about our patients and our staff

ACCOUNTABLE and responsible, always improving

RESPECT for all colleagues, patients and their families

ENCOURAGING and challenging each other to always do our best

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification see the attached documents

Person specification

Training and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Quality improvement training
• Patient safety training
• Training / teaching qualification

Experience and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Safety improvement experience and knowledge
• Knowledge of patient safety in the NHS

Desirable criteria

• Statistical analysis

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Prioritisation
• Written communication
• Investigation techniques
• IT skills

Desirable criteria

• Human factors applicable to investigations

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• Patient safety manager job description (PDF, 506.0KB)
• HHFT Employee Rewards & Benefits (PDF, 723.8KB)