Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
20 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of undertaking complaints investigations and the preparation response letters.
- Experience
Quality governance experience in relation to experience, safety and risk (including review of complaints)
- Qualifications
Post Graduate Diploma in risk management procedures or equivalent level experience.
- Qualifications
Specialist knowledge of Health & Social Care regulations, policies and procedures gained through knowledge or relevant experience.
- Qualifications
Risk Management and Complaints Handling qualification or equivalent gained through experience.
- Knowledge and Skills
Specialist knowledge of NHS Complaints Procedure and organisational policy and procedures in relation to the management of complaints and other frameworks for the investigation of complaints.
- Knowledge and Skills
Detailed working knowledge of risk management policies and regulations pertaining to experience, safety and risk
- Knowledge and Skills
Awareness of Mental Health and Mental Capacity Acts, Health and Safety legislation, Information Governance requirements, Data Protection Act, Human Rights Act and Equality and Diversity Issues
- Knowledge and Skills
Good communication skills, including an approach which is supportive, sensitive and empathic with those involved in, or affected by, complaints, incidents and near misses
- Knowledge and Skills
Good communication skills with all levels of staff across professions and with partner agencies
- Knowledge and Skills
Confident and effective when dealing with difficult issues with staff in a group setting
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to influence key stakeholders within complex organisational structures
- Knowledge and Skills
Excellent analytical skills required in relation to reviewing assessment, service responses and all aspects relating to complaints, clinical effectiveness and quality governance
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to prioritise competing demands on a daily basis and respond accordingly
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to plan, implement and monitor own workload
- Knowledge and Skills
Proactive and able to work under own initiative without direct supervision
- Knowledge and Skills
Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines as required
- Knowledge and Skills
Good computer skills (including word and excel)
- Knowledge and Skills
Letter / report writing experience
- Knowledge and Skills
Excellent standard of written English
Desirable
1 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Completed the trust complaints investigating officer training.
Job summary
We are seeking to recruit a part-time Complaints Investigation Officer (18.75 hours per week).
The ideal candidate will possess relevant experience and demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively with a variety of people in order to conduct thorough investigations.
This position involves liaison with complainants, staff across the Trust, and members of the Patient Experience Team. The successful applicant will be expected to work efficiently and deliver high-quality, evidence-based responses for complex cases within set timelines to address areas of concern.
Main duties of the job
- To investigate the care, treatment and support in place when complaints have been made in order to inform improvement in the safety and quality of services provided by the Trust.
- To facilitate timely and inclusive case specific investigations; to establish the facts, identify possible contributory or causal factors, highlight resultant learning, consider improvements required and recommendations from the reports of reviews undertaken.
- To undertake complaints investigations as set out in the Local Authority Social Services and National Health Service Complaints (England) Regulations 2009.
- Liaise with those affected by complaints and their carers (meeting with managers/practitioners/clinicians/relatives following complaints to consider issues arising, learning resulting and service responses required).
- To coordinate the Trusts response in relation to complaints, ensuring that final response letters are produced to a high standard and in the agreed timescales.
About us
About Devon Partnership Trust
We provide mental health, learning disability and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organisation, and through our partnerships, to deliver high quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.
We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile; making time for people; challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.
Details
- Date posted: 03 September 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 6
- Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata (18.75 hours per week)
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
- Reference number: C9369-26-0658
- Job locations: Franklyn House, Franklyn Drive, Exeter, Devon, EX4 8PQ, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification which will provide further information on this role.
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This advert is for Complaints Investigation Officer with Devon Partnership NHS Trust in Dawlish, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Officer (discipline unspecified) role. The advertised salary is £39,959 to £48,117 a year. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 21 Sep 2026.
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