Patient Safety Lead Reviewer

Job summary

37.5 hours per week.

Ready to use your clinical expertise to improve patient safety on a wider scale?

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced healthcare professional to step beyond direct clinical practice and into a strategic leadership role where your influence can improve care for patients across our organisation.

As a Patient Safety Lead Reviewer, you'll join our Quality and Safety Team, working at the heart of organisational learning, improvement, and patient safety. This is a role for someone who is passionate about understanding why things go wrong, identifying opportunities for improvement, and creating safer systems for patients, families, and staff.

You will have the opportunity to shape safer care across whole services and pathways, ensuring that every patient safety incident becomes a catalyst for meaningful learning and improvement.

Why this role?

• Bring your clinical knowledge, professional judgement, and compassionate approach into a corporate leadership setting.
• Influence Patient Safety strategy and quality improvement across the organisation.
• Work closely with clinical teams, senior leaders, patients, families and partner organisations.
• Lead complex patient safety investigations using system-based approaches and human factor principles.
• This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
• Please note that Livewell may close the job advertisement earlier than the specified deadline.

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Patient Safety Specialist, you will lead high-quality patient safety investigations and reviews, ensuring they are compassionate, evidence-based, and focused on learning rather than blame.

Playing a key role in improving patient safety and quality of care, working closely with patients, families, carers, and staff to ensure learning is captured and meaningful change is delivered. Collaborating with a range of stakeholders, you will identify opportunities for improvement. You will also contribute to wider quality and safety initiatives.

We're looking for someone who is passionate about QI and creating safer systems of care. You will have excellent investigative, analytical, and report-writing skills and can build trusted relationships with patients, families, and professionals. You will be confident communicating sensitive findings with professionalism and compassion, valuing collaboration, curiosity, and continuous learning.

What you'll gain

• Unique opportunity to influence patient safety across an entire organisation.
• Hybrid/flexible working arrangements.
• Opportunity to work with passionate colleagues committed to learning and improvement.
• A role that combines leadership, investigation, improvement, and strategy.
• Make a real difference to patients, families, and staff.

All staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.

About us

Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.

As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values, kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.

We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.

We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.

Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.

Details

• Date posted: 01 September 2026
• Pay scheme: Agenda for change
• Band: Band 8a
• Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year pa, pro-rata
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Job share, Flexible working
• Reference number: B9832-2026-AC-1996
• Job locations: Livewell Southwest, Crownhill Court, Tailyour Road, Plymouth, Devon, PL6 5DH, United Kingdom

Job responsibilities

Job Description

• Lead complex patient safety incident investigations in accordance with PSIRF.
• Identify systems learning and support quality improvement initiatives.
• Engage patients, families, carers and staff in compassionate investigations.
• Provide expert advice on patient safety, human factors and Just Culture principles.
• Support organisational learning, governance and regulatory assurance.
• Deliver training and mentorship to develop investigation capability across the organisation.
• Contribute to coronial processes, customer services, NICE compliance and CQC preparedness.
• Provide leadership and quality assurance within the Patient Safety and Quality Team.

For more information, please see the attached Job Description.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).