This post supports delivery of the Patient Safety Strategy, PSIRF and LFPSE requirements, and also regulatory requirements, such as Duty of Candour.

The postholder is responsible for supporting delivery of the effective and timely delivery of the incident reporting and investigation process in the Trust, by working collaboratively and proactively to ensure thorough, proportionate investigations are conducted in accordance with Trust, and National policies and good practice.

The post sits within one of the teams accountable to the wider Quality and Safety Governance team and functions.

Under the direction of the Clinical Risk and Investigations Manager, the team will be required to manage their workload to ensure all timescales both internally and externally are met, and risks to deadlines are escalated appropriately and in a timely manner. The post holder should escalate any issues which may arise and potentially compromise timely completion or a change in scope of the investigation.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for ensuring adherence to systems and processes for the identification, appropriate investigation, reporting, and learning from incidents

Support the review of patient safety incidents to facilitate PSIRF panel workbook preparation, and post panel follow up.

Be responsible for updating actions and outcomes of incidents requiring further review, and ensuring timescales are adhered to for the management of reported incidents through the local incident reporting system (InPhase), including After Action Reviews (AAR), Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) reviews, case note reviews, timeline assessments and thematic reviews.

Provide a support package to the staff undertaking incident investigation and ensure that all safety improvement plans have had the appropriate governance and are generated in accordance with the format agreed by the Trust and commissioners.

About us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A& E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Support the clinical service lines (CSLs) to ensure that incidents that have resulted in moderate and above harm to a patient, or meet the Trust or National Priorities, have a robust SMART action plan which is then monitored through internal governance processes.

Work with CSL teams to ensure that sharing and learning occurs regarding reportable events particularly where there are themes which can be shared which will improve safety across the organisation.

Support events that take place, and processes that are in place to facilitate the learning identified from patient safety incidents is shared across the organisation.

The post holder will support the Clinical Risk and Safety Lead and Clinical Risk and Investigations Manager with a caseload as part of an investigation team conducting reviews which may include a System Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) approach into incidents reflecting the Trust and National priorities, in relation to PSIRF.

Please see Job description for a full detailed outline of the main responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or equivalent level of education or training in a relevant subject

Desirable

• Registered Healthcare Practitioner
• SEIPS/PSIRF training

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a healthcare setting and experience of clinical risk management
• Experience of investigating clinical incidents in a health care setting using SEIPS process
• Knowledge of the Duty of Candour processes
• Has an understanding of the audit and continuous improvement processes
• Experience ensuring lessons learnt from patient safety incidents are turned into appropriate, realistic and achievable actions to reduce harm to patients / staff

Desirable

• Experience working as a Registered Practitioner in a Healthcare setting which involves supporting staff
• Experience of developing policies based on National frameworks / guidance
• Experience of delivering and Evaluating training to a wide variety of Trust staff

Skills

Essential

• Excellent organisational /prioritisation skills and the ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Self - motivated to be able to work on own initiative and prioritise workload effectively
• Able to maintain composure when challenged and the ability to deal with distressing circumstances that may arise from conducting investigations

Desirable

• Professional credibility

Employer details

Employer name

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Luton University Hospital

Luton

LU4 0DZ

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