Are you an experienced individual who is passionate about quality improvement and promoting best practice within healthcare? Do you want to help make a difference for patients and their families promoting a positive culture of learning from deaths within the organisation? If so, we would love to hear from you! Ideally you will be a registered healthcare practitioner with a clinical background however applicants with a non-clinical background who have the appropriate experience are also encouraged to apply.

The successful candidate will need to be inspirational, motivated, and determined in their approach, enjoy a challenge and have a proven ability to positively influence others. As a member of a small team, you will provide expertise and leadership across the organisation, supporting the well-established mortality review process and wider learning from deaths programme of work, liaising with a variety of internal and external stakeholders at every level of seniority.

The post is based at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, although travel between hospital sites within the Trust may be required.

Main duties of the job

The role of the Senior Learning from Deaths Manager is crucial to help foster a culture of learning across the Trust to facilitate the delivery of outstanding care to patients who access our services. The post holder will play a pivotal role in ensuring that the Trust maintains a forward thinking approach to learning from deaths and maintains a focus on continuous improvement within the wider Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Agenda within the organisation.

About us

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) is the main provider of acute hospital services for around half a million people in Shropshire, Telford & Wrekin and mid Wales.

Encompassing some of the most picturesque parts of England and Wales, the Trust's catchment stretches from the Cambrian Mountains in the west, to Newport and the fringes of the Black Country in the east. The main towns include: Bridgnorth, Ludlow, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Shrewsbury and Whitchurch (in Shropshire) Newport, Telford and Wellington (in Telford & Wrekin) and Newtown and Welshpool (in Powys) - all beautiful and unique.

Our main service locations are The Princess Royal Hospital (PRH) in Telford and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) in Shrewsbury which are located 20 minutes' drive apart. Together they provide 99% of our activity. Both hospitals provide a wide range of acute hospital services including accident & emergency, outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient medical care and critical care.

We also provide services such as consultant-led outreach clinics at the Wrekin Community Clinic, Telford, the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Gobowen and the Bridgnorth, Ludlow and Whitchurch Community Hospitals.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information about the full duties and responsibilities of this post, please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc degree qualification or equivalent experience in a healthcare related discipline

Desirable

• Management qualification
• Clinical registration for example NMC or AHP

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of key performance indicators and compliance against quality, governance and risk agendas
• Knowledge of the NHS and the improvement agenda, particularly in relation to service delivery
• Knowledge of the National Quality Board Learning from Deaths Guidance
• Knowledge of Quality Governance and Risk Management systems and processes
• Knowledge of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)

Experience, skills and behaviours

Essential

• Experience in an operational managerial role within an NHS Trust or complex healthcare environment
• Proven performance management of services and delivery of targets within agreed timescales
• Experience of working collaboratively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including those at a senior level
• Experience of successfully leading and managing a diverse team
• Well-developed and credible leadership and motivational skills
• Able to contribute to Trust's cost reduction strategy to reconcile affordability, safety and quality
• Patient focused style and thinking
• Excellent planning and organisational skills
• Political awareness
• Proven ability to analyse complex data to inform decision making
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence, persuade, and negotiate at all levels
• Enthusiastic and self motivated
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Capacity to build and maintain constructive relationships at all levels
• Ability to prioritise own and others workload and demonstrate a flexible approach to changing priorities
• Relevant experience working in a governance related role within the NHS or other complex healthcare environment
• Can demonstrate excellent written skills to produce formal, informal, and technical documents within agreed and sometimes tighttimescales

Desirable

• Demonstrable experience of leading and effectively managing change in large complex environments

Employer details

Employer name

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Address

The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Mytton Oak Road

Shrewsbury

SY3 8XQ

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