Patient Safety Improvement Lead

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Patient Safety Improvement Team at University College London Hospitals for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, critical thinker, and experienced improvement leader to join us as Patient Safety Improvement Lead.

This role is pivotal in providing support to deliver the safety improvement projects from patient safety priorities and emerging patient safety themes in line with the implementation of the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF). You will have proven change management, quality improvement, and project management experience as well as understanding and appreciation of the various clinical patient safety issues to drive the safety improvement agenda and be successful in the role. You will be required to work in close partnership with leaders across the Trust and with external stakeholders to continue our improvement journey.

Main duties of the job

• Project management- Establish a clear project management infrastructure for the patient safety improvement projects, identified in the patient safety incident response plan, in line with recognised project management methodology.
• Quality improvement- Take responsibility for facilitating quality improvement and support the introduction of quality improvement methodology including being able to adapt QI tools to different safety improvement work streams. Provide corporate leadership, lead the monthly progress report and learning on specific safety improvement projects.
• Information and data - Lead and coordinate data management and analysis as well as the establishment of a robust system for monitoring, reporting, predicting performance, identifying key risk areas, and agreeing an improvement plan with the relevant teams to support actions from patient safety incident investigations and inform the safety improvement plan.
• Safety Culture- Investigate patient safety incident investigations (PSIIs) as appropriate and provide training and coaching for the development of patient safety improvement projects.
• Communication- Lead on communication activities, support effective working relationships and disseminate organisational learning internally and externally to build awareness and capability across the healthcare sector.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.

The post holder will provide specific project support to the trust patient safety priority and emerging patient safety themes ensuring that improvement projects are initiated and managed in a manner consistent with UCLH’s aims and the project deliverables. The post will also lead on the use of data in improvement.

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