Overview
We are recruiting for a full-time Patient Safety Lead to join our team and provide leadership within patient safety across the Trust.
You'll be supporting the directorate and clinical teams, completing patient safety reviews to a high standard, delivering training on patient safety, and responsible for sharing learning across Oxford Health. The team works across all directorates in the Trust which include community, dental, mental health, forensic and learning disability services.
This role provides the opportunity to gain knowledge of many different services, and different types of incidents (although due to the nature of our service, self-harm/suspected suicide are the majority).
We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised, motivated person with excellent communication skills. This is a challenging role within a busy team, but it is highly rewarding to work collaboratively with clinical staff and patient/family to ultimately identify areas of learning and improvement.
Our team currently works flexibly between the office and home, and this role will require you to travel to different sites across our geographical area.
If you’re a registered nurse, AHP, social worker, or have significant senior experience in health care service, looking for a rewarding step in your career, we would love to hear from you!
Duties
Please note that this job is going through evaluation and may be subject to change.
- Leadership in the patient safety team, directorate and clinical teams in all aspects of patient safety.
- To be an expert in Patient Safety and reviews, techniques and practice, including Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS), Human Factors.
- Monitor and interpret national guidance and policy in order to ensure that Trust procedures and practice comply with or exceed best practice
- To review patient safety incidents and/or complex complaints, acting as a role model and expert advisor for other staff involved in the reviews, ensuring that all reviews are carried out to the highest possible standards.
- To produce high-quality reports that identify the system and process factors that led to the incident/complaint occurring. Suggesting safety improvement areas for change in practice.
- Analyse themes and patterns from incidents and complaints to support learning and changes. Presenting these in internal and external forums.
- Share learning across trust and deliver patient safety training.
- To work flexibly as part of wider Patient Safety, undertaking duties and activities relevant to the level of post to improve the experience of patients and staff.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
Oxford Health is a great place to work, and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application, please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust, we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
Benefits
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and trust-wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
For further details / informal visits, contact:
Name: Victoria Harte
Job title: Patient Safety Service Manager
Email address: victoria.harte@oxfordhealth.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01865 902351
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
