Head of Patient Safety

Job overview

This post is open to employees of the five LAASP organisations. As part of your application, you will be asked to confirm that you are a current employee of The Clatterbridge Centre, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool University Hospitals, Liverpool Women’s Hospital or, The Walton Centre

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is seeking to appoint a Head of Patient Safety to lead, manage and develop all aspects of patient safety including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), and quality governance within the Trust. With a particular focus on PSIRF, complaints and PALs. The post holder will develop, lead, implement and sustain an effective Trust patient safety strategy at both a strategic and operational level in line with the national patient safety strategy, and lead the patient safety committee. They will also oversee the process of patient safety investigations, learning, assurance mechanisms, patient safety/quality improvement projects and monitoring effectiveness to, and will lead on PSIRF learning responses, where appropriate, and Duty of Candour conversations with patients and families.

This role will provide the successful candidate with an opportunity to establish and develop a high performing patient safety and quality governance function across a multiple site organisation.

Main duties of the job

To be the Trust’s patient safety expert; leading, managing and developing all aspects of patient safety including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

To continuously improve patient safety through implementation of the NHSE/I Patient Safety Strategy/National Patient Safety Strategy ensuring alignment with the Quality Strategy; leading the implementation PSIRF.

Management of the process of patient safety investigations, learning,  assurance mechanisms,  patient safety/quality improvement projects and monitoring effectiveness.

To support governance mechanisms so that Divisional staff manage patient safety investigations and implementation of learning and its effectiveness. To ensure there are effective safety reporting mechanisms and engagement with external stakeholders including the National Reporting and Learning System, NHS England and commissioners. To produce assurance reporting on the patient safety management and its links with learning and quality improvement.

To operationally lead across the quality governance agenda including complaints and PALs. Deputy to the Deputy Director of Quality Governance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details about this exciting role on offer at The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre.