# Band 7 Patient Safety and Risk Manager - Neonates > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-patient-safety-and-risk-manager-neonates/32cf30f8-02ba-4631-bcb9-865cfac5811a - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/band-7-patient-safety-and-risk-manager-neonates/32cf30f8-02ba-4631-bcb9-865cfac5811a.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inclusive of HCAs (Pro-rata if LTFT) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-07T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-24T14:12:54.192Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Neonatal_Medicine/Neonatal_Medicine-v8159375 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8159375?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you an experienced neonatal professional looking to take the next step in your leadership career? At Sunrise Neonatal Unit, we are committed to providing safe, high-quality care for every baby and family we support. We are seeking an outstanding Patient Safety & Risk Manager to lead our safety, quality and governance agenda across neonatal services. This is a unique opportunity to influence change at a strategic level, leading patient safety initiatives, driving quality improvement and ensuring learning from incidents translates into measurable improvements in care. You will play a pivotal role in creating a culture where safety, learning and excellence are embedded in everyday practice. ### Main duties of the job As a Patient Safety & Risk Manager in Sunrise Neonatal Unit, you will play a pivotal role in promoting a culture of safety, supporting incident investigations, managing risks, driving learning from patient safety events, and ensuring compliance with national quality and regulatory standards. Working closely with multidisciplinary teams, senior clinical leaders and governance colleagues, you will lead quality improvement programmes, analyse safety and risk data, develop action plans, and support the delivery of safe, effective and high-quality care for babies and their families across the neonatal service. Main Responsibilities : Lead neonatal patient safety, governance and risk management programmes. Coordinate and support patient safety incident investigations and implementation of learning. Monitor and manage clinical risks, maintaining the neonatal risk register and mitigation plans. Drive quality improvement and assurance activities to support compliance with CQC, CNST, ATAIN and BAPM standards. Analyse incident, complaint and audit data to identify trends and improve patient outcomes. Produce governance reports and provide expert advice to clinical and managerial teams. Support staff through training, coaching and the promotion of a positive safety culture. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial experience of working in neonates, some of which is at a junior managerial level. - Experience working in an environment with conflicting pressures and changing workload - Experience of working within a team and of developing good working relationships with internal and external staff at all levels. - Experience of collating data and extrapolating information. - Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills - Experience of working across multiple sites - Experience of change management initiatives Experience of managing staff ### Royal Free Class Values **Essential** - Demonstrate ability to meet the Trust Values : Positively welcoming, actively respectful, clearly communicating, visibly reassuring ### Education and qualifications **Essential** - RGN/RM/RSCN/RN Child registration. - Degree or equivalent skills, knowledge, and experience in nursing/midwifery - ENB405/Neonatal Qualified in Speciality. - Master’s qualification or equivalent or working towards qualification ### Personal Qualities & Attributes **Essential** - Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills - Excellent telephone manner with the ability to deal tactfully, sympathetically and efficiently with all enquiries - Ability to represent the Department in a professional manner at all times - Computer literate with experience of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and excellent and accurate typing skills - Robust organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and meet tight timescale - Ability to use own initiative and work with minimal supervision as part of a team - Highly motivated and resourceful - A flexible approach with the ability to work under pressure and deal with conflicting demands. - Leadership skills and ability to motivate others - Ability to articulate strategic vision ## Documents - [fr (pdf, 113.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10485681) - [ps (pdf, 369.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10485680) - [patient safety and risk manager- neonates (pdf, 369.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10459958) - [nursing and midwifery - benefits, about rfl, values and governing objectives (pdf, 626.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2755) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.