We are seeking a dynamic Head of Patient Safety to provide senior leadership and facilitation of the Patient Safety Strategy across the University Hospitals of Northampton, Northampton and Kettering sites. This is an exciting time to join us at UHN, this post will work across the group to monitor and analyse patient safety data to identify trends and areas for improvement work with the aim to deliver safe patient care.

The Head of Patient Safety and Improvement (HoPSI) will be accountable for providing compassionate and collaborative senior leadership, visibility and expert advice for patient safety and incident response within the organisation.

As the lead specialist the HoPS will work closing with all staff in addition to our clinical leaders to understand and explore the most effective approaches to improving patient safety and ensure that any patient safety-related responsibilities are effectively aligned.

Main duties of the job

This is a senior leadership role with responsibilities across the organisation to lead, coach and support clinical teams, through their divisional structures, to continuously improve patient safety, applying multiple sources of insight to inform priorities and actions.

The role will oversee the framework for delivery of the Trust's Patient Safety, working with relevant clinical and operational leads and supporting reviews and reporting of progress in year to various Board level and operational committees/groups. It will also provide expert advice and support for the systems that support and inform patient safety, for example, Quality visits and ward accreditation leading on the design and implementation of a Patient Safety insight approach within multiple related systems across the trust.

This role is key in ensuring that UHN has an embedded safety culture that encompasses the principles of civility, psychological safety and restorative just cultures in a learning environment.

About us

Kettering General NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust are both part of the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group. Both hospitals are separate hospitals/employers with hospital board and leadership. We share a group executive team leading on a shared vision, mission, priorities, strategies and Dedicated to Excellence Values.

Our Excellence Values

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Integrity
• Courage

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.

We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.

The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.

We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.

We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Responsibility for oversight of the implementation of the NHS patient safety strategy across UHN that includes PSIRF implementation, a system wide overview and change in culture and system learning approach.

Provide patient safety expertise/leadership within the organisation demonstrating compassionate leadership, visibility and supporting the continued development of the patient safety culture.

Oversee and support patient safety improvement, ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in patient safety processes.

Ensure the organisation has a robust and effective patient safety strategy/patient safety incident response plan as part of PSIRF with planning to implement effectively.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

• Masters Degree or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Clinical qualification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrate recent experience as a senior manager within the NHS managing patient safety
• Demonstrate sound knowledge of patient safety within the NHS
• Successful project management experience
• Excellent report writing skills together with interpretation of highly complex information
• Knowledge and experience of learning and assurance mechanisms and reporting

Desirable

• Experience of delivering training and engagement of staff on patient safety issues

Skills

Essential

• Able to plan and organise a broad range of highly complex activities and support service improvement across the Trust
• Ability to work autonomously and on own initiative
• Able to build effective contacts and networks
• Ability to complete work within timescales/deadlines
• Proven ability to obtain and consistently achieve results and targets
• Proven ability to lead improvement activity through staff participation
• Strong advocate of patient safety culture
• Ability to influence, negotiate and deliver change/results through others across the Trust

Analytical and Judgement

Essential

• Ability to distil highly complex data to useful management information
• Make independent decisions on highly complex project issues where there maybe more than one course of action
• Interpret national guidance and translate into practice
• Computer literate

Other

Essential

• Ability to work under pressure and deal with distressing information linked to patient safety
• Strong motivation to improve performance
• Ability to travel

Employer details

Employer name

Northampton General Hospital

Address

Kettering General Hospital

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

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