Patient Safety Leader

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The NHS Patient Safety Strategy set out a broad scope of actions, new systems, processes, and principles for improving patient safety outcomes. The Patient Safety Leader will implement, monitor and utilise systems and patient safety intelligence to ensure continuous improvement in care services and patient outcomes. This role will support the Patient Safety Specialist to co-ordinate patient safety intelligence from multiple sources to extract and share learning, identify/escalate risks and identify areas for targeted improvement. The role will support the implementation and embedding of new models, principles, and training for patient safety Trust wide.

• Support the implementation & delivery of the National Patient Safety Strategy (including Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), Patient Safety Partners, Learning from Patient Safety Events (LfPSE etc), working closely with the Patient Safety Specialist to embed a culture of safety, learning and improvement.
• Be responsible to the Patient Safety Specialist on patient safety work streams and outcomes, and submit regular reports on progress, in the agreed format and at the required frequency.
• To provide leadership to a range of safety related improvement projects across the Trust, developing new policy and governance systems to embed and sustain change.
• Provide leadership and advice on the systems and application of processes for the effective management of patient safety incidents across the Trust, with a focus on improvements.
• Support the development of key performance indicators that reflect the key lessons learned and associated improvement.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust provides integrated acute and community Healthcare in the West Midlands serving a population of 260,000 residents. Walsall Manor Hospital houses the full range of district general hospital services. The £170 million development was completed in 2010 and we are continually upgrading. Construction of the new integrated critical care unit was completed in 2018, extension of a Neonatal Unit and brand new, state of the art Emergency Department is in the process of being completed.

We are recommended by colleagues as a place to work which is supported by the trusts values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional. We are committed to investing in our workforce

RESPECT - COMPASSION - TEAMWORK – PROFESSIONALISM

• Develop and deliver work plans for patient safety work streams and projects to ensure the achievement of the aims
• Support the establishment of meaningful patient involvement in the Trust’s implementation of the PSIRF.
• Promote the patient safety agenda in terms of communication, awareness raising, highlighting areas of planned work/progress, areas of risk and publicising good practice in delivering improvement.
• Support patient safety campaigns and be part of the leadership team guiding these.
• Support implementation of the ‘Just Culture Guide’ or equivalent, to embed consistent, constructive, and fair evaluation of the actions of staff involved in patient safety incidents.
• Facilitate the implementation and embedding of the National Patient Safety Syllabus across the organisation.
• Implement incident management systems and processes including incident quality assurance, check and challenge of grade, levels of harm, further actions or escalation needed, closure etc.