Patient Safety Incident Administrator

Job summary

We are recruiting for a Patient Safety Incident Administrator to join our team. (Previous applicants need not apply)

The main purpose of this role is to provide support for the organisation in the delivery of robust incident management, and patient safety by facilitating the Incident reporting and management process and supporting the delivery of the patient safety incident process.

The post holder will support the incident and Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) elements of the Clinical Governance Team ensuring there is robust application of Trust governance processes, policies and procedures.

Main duties of the job

Main duties and Tasks

To undertake administrative procedures and systems some of which are non-routine activities these include but are not limited to: drafting, collating and sending out agendas for the following Trust meetings - daily trust pre-triage and triage meeting, Learning Response Decision Meeting, Patient Safety Incident Response Organisation Meeting and other governance meetings.

Taking notes and or minutes for each of these meetings and the updating of all relevant systems following the meetings. Work will include the use of the Ulysses Risk Management System, national reporting systems (StEIS) to alert Integrated Care Boards and the CQC of incidents reported for patient safety incident investigations and trackers to monitor incident and investigation progress. The post will also support the productive of monthly and quarterly reporting together with data for freedom of information requests.

Job responsibilities

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence