Clinical Governance and Patient Safety Lead

Job overview

Are you ready to take the next step career and join our dynamic team in this newly created exciting opportunity within the board of Surgery and Associated specialties  at Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals?

We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated, dynamic person who is passionate about improving patient care and clinical outcomes by ensuring quality and safety is an integral part of the patient pathway. We are looking for a candidate with knowledge of risk management, audit and quality improvement and who is passionate about quality and safety to become a patient safety lead within the clinical board.

The patient safety lead will bring clinical leadership experience and excellent interpersonal skills to support the delivery of our clinical board quality and safety strategy.  The patient safety lead will work closely with the Medical Quality and Safety Lead and Head of Nursing in collaboration with key stakeholders across the board and wider trust facilitating the delivery of the patient safety incident framework.  As part of this process it is essential that we develop a robust approach to shared learning across the board, linking with all staff groups , the patient safety lead will play a key role in strengthening our approach to learning for improvement.

• Interview Date Thursday, 07 November 2024
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator and an ambassador for high quality patient care.  It is essential that you bring a flexible and adaptable approach to meet the exciting challenge of this role, supporting the multi-professional team in enhancing quality and improving the patient experience.

• To focus on patient safety by working with all services within the Clinical Board to promote and create a culture of openness, transparency and collaboration
• To support the delivery of the quality and safety agenda within the clinical board
• As a key member of the Quality Oversight Group (QOG) for the Clinical Board, facilitate learning and continual improvement in response to concerns raised, incidents and complaint and in doing so create a culture of shared learning
• Provide leadership, guidance and support to across the Board on all patient safety and clinical governance issues

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Work with all services within the Clinical Board to promote and create a culture of openness, transparency and collaboration, including ensuring compliance with duty of candour and being open.
• Promote a culture of incident reporting and support investigations into adverse events, incidents, and near misses, identifyingsystems issues, implementing corrective actions, and facilitating local and organizational learning.
• Participate in and support the embedding of PSIRF within and across the Clinical Board
• In conjunction with and on behalf of the Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Head of Nursing and CGARD Clinical Board representatives, support the development of a robust patient safety and clinical governance framework within the Board to ensure the provision of safe and high-quality care.
• Collaborate with Quality and Safety leads, Head of Nursing and Matrons within the board and other stakeholders to champion patient safety initiatives and drive continuous improvement.
• As a key member of the Quality Oversight Group (QOG) for the Clinical Board, facilitate learning and continual improvement in response to concerns raised, incidents and complaints. Sharing local learning within the Board and contributing to Trust wide learning forums e.g. Patient Safety Briefings.
• Assist in the development of cross cutting policies, procedures, and guidelines that promote a culture of patient safety, risk identification and mitigation throughout the Clinical Board.
• Understand the highest risks facing the Clinical Board and the potential mitigating actions being put in place to address these.
• In conjunction with the Head of Nursing, Medical Quality and Safety Lead, Matron, clinical governance and audit leads for the Clinical Board advise on all aspects of clinical governance, clinical risk management and patient safety.
• As an integral part of the Clinical Board QOG , facilitate, develop and co-ordinate clinical risk management within the Board. Foster a just culture in line with the corporate objectives, resulting in the delivery of a high-quality, cost-effective service.
• Promote a positive learning environment where lessons are learnt and changes implemented to ensure a quality service working in partnership with the Director of Operations, Clinical Board Chair Head of Nursing, Matron and Clinical Directors,
• To work closely with colleagues to raise the profile of clinical governance and risk management, highlighting in practice the relationship between patient safety and the management and everyday clinical practice and the effects on the patient to identify areas of good practice and highlight areas that can be improved.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

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