Patient Safety and Risk Co-ordinator

Job overview

The Patient Safety and Risk Co-Ordinator has a unique and varied role responsible for managing key elements of the Patient Safety, Risk and Quality agenda within HDFT.  The post would be part of a busy but dynamic team that encompasses all elements of quality and safety including Patient Safety Incident Investigation or learning responses, Complaints, Claims, Coroners, Risk Manager, Compliance, Patient Experience and Clinical Effectiveness.

The post sit within the Safety and Investigation arm of the Quality Team which encompasses patient experience, Patient Safety Incident Investigation and other learning responses,  Claims, Coroners and incident management.

This post is for 22.5 hours per week

Main duties of the job

The key focus for this role will be:

• Support quality improvement and patient safety across all directorates
• Support processes to ensure robust incident reporting processes, including investigations, learning and effectiveness assurance mechanisms, are in place to improve and learn from patient safety events.
• Support the management of risk management arrangements across the organisation
• Provide support to the ongoing development of the Datix system
• Ensuring learning is shared across the Trust
• Providing oversight on ensuring safety actions are embedded and effectively monitored, and closed with relevant assurance.

Utilise well developed negotiating and influencing skills and have the ability to build effective working relationships.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Patient Safety Officer is responsible for:

• Supporting the event reporting process including establishing and embedding just culture of reporting incidents
• Support with the trust’s compliance relating to the duty of candour regulation
• Oversee HDFT’s reporting to the national NHS system (LFPSE), learning from patient safety events, to ensure accurate data recording.
• Support the embedding of Datix (DCIQ) system including ongoing maintenance and highlight improvements to aid with event recording.
• Support the embedding of the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF) across the organisation
• Utilise well developed negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to present sound reasoning and awareness in relation to patient safety
• Support workplans, project plans, themes and lessons learned relating to incident reporting
• Build and maintain relationships with key personnel to ensure knowledge and information is shared across internal and external stakeholders
• Support and co-ordinate the review of patient safety Incident investigations (PSII) and Patient Safety Event Committee (PSEC)
• Contribute to the annual Quality Account report in relation to patient safety
• Oversee National Patient Safety Alerts via Central Alert Systems (CAS)
• Attendance of regular patient safety meetings, including, but not limited to, RROSE (Rapid Review of Safety Event), and Learning responses, (eg after action review).
• Oversee daily review of patient safety events reported trustwide and escalate accordingly
• Creating a monthly Newsletter, and providing support to the Safety and Learning Network Meeting.
• Provide training for safety and risk process to colleagues across the trust
• Oversee and play a key role in delivering risk management prosses, aiding colleagues to assess and input risks within DCIQ accurately
• Provide secretarial support for key safety and risk meetings