This is an exciting new position in the Trust's Patient Safety and Improvement Team.

The successful applicant would be responsible for supporting the effective delivery of Patient Safety and Improvement initiatives across the trust.

Main duties of the job

To support the delivery of patient safety improvement projects across the organisation, working closely with Business Units to support the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Framework (PSIRF) and their improvement plans.

There will be an expectation to deliver Patient Safety related training across the organisation.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting effective delivery of Patient Safety and Improvement initiatives, including the Patient Safety Strategy, across the trust, managed in accordance with the trust Patient Safety and Improvement Team principles and objectives.
• Supports co-ordination, tracking and delivery of patient safety improvement projects. Leads on specific programme elements.
• Providing effective analysis, insights, and facilitation to ensure successful outcomes.
• Patient safety benefits analysis and delivery.
• Proactively search out opportunities for improvement.
• Utilise systems which provide accurate/analytical and statistical information and produce relevant reports on the basis of improvement outcomes which are highly complex.
• Working cross functionally across the trust and with external stakeholders.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• o Knowledge of specific area, acquired through degree or equivalent experience or training, plus further staff and project management knowledge to post graduate diploma level equivalent
• Degree or equivalent experience.
• o Evidence of continuous professional development.

Desirable

• o MBA or post graduate qualification relating to health care management or quality improvement.
• o Qualification in project management

Experience

Essential

• Developed understanding of health service issues, , information systems, data sources, care pathways and benchmarking techniques.
• Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience.
• o Evidence of healthcare analytics.
• Experience of successfully leading change.

Desirable

• Developed understanding of health service issuesGood knowledge & understanding of the NHS, information systems, data sources and benchmarking techniques
• Good understanding of care pathways through complex NHS systems

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Northumbria House

Cobalt Business Park

North Shields

NE27 0QJ

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