Patient Safety and Investigation Lead

Job overview

As a Patient Safety and Investigation Lead, you will be working both autonomously and in collaboration with the corporate and divisional teams to lead system level patient safety incident investigations.

Work with divisional and corporate teams to identify areas for improvement from patient safety events in line with relevant Trust learning response policies and procedures.

Be involved in continuously reviewing and improving various elements of the Trust's Patient Safety Incident Response Framework policies and plan.

Deliver and support the Trust to provide compassionate engagement and involvement of those impacted by patient safety incidents.

Lead on the systems and processes required to provide oversight of key patient safety compliance metrics, including Duty of candour.

Be jointly responsible for designing and delivering training for a wide range of staff on various learning response methods and patient safety science.

Main duties of the job

Continue to develop own expertise of patient safety and support the Trust to evolve the capacity and capability of patient safety expertise within the Trust. This includes linking in with national patient safety expert networks.

Lead and continually seek to improve the operational effectiveness of the corporate patient safety team and that resources are optimised to their greatest effect.

Contribute to and participate in the design and delivery of the Trust response to the national patient safety strategy.

Provide expertise in patient safety science including system analysis, just culture, human factors, and the national patient safety strategy, including the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF).

Provide expertise in patient incident investigation (including SEIPS), as well as other patient safety learning response methodologies. This includes direct observation of care as well as exploring with staff and patients on what occurred with aim of identifying any gaps and improvement areas in provision of care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment -    or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment This vacancy will close at midnight on the 31st March 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on the 8th or 14th April 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.