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Job overview
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, home to Barts Cardiac and Cancer Centres, is looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our clinical governance team as Patient Safety Manager to offer leadership and support to ongoing embedding, development and maturity of PSIRF across St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Working closely with our Hospital Patient Safety Specialist, the post holder will provide expert advice, lead complex patient safety incident investigations, support compassionate engagement with patients, families and staff, and strengthen learning and improvement systems across divisional governance structures.
The successful candidate will be professionally qualified in a related health care profession and demonstrate education and experience in systems-based incident investigation. They will have ability to constructively challenge and influence others at all levels of the organisation with strong leadership, change management and excellent report writing and presentation skills.
You will be joining a small supportive friendly team, with opportunity for flexible working patterns and further education in patient safety and human factors.
Main duties of the job
- This role provides senior leadership within the Clinical Governance Team at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, leading the implementation, coordination and quality assurance of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) in alignment with group patient safety priorities. It delivers expert oversight of patient safety incident management, including investigation, learning responses, safety intelligence, and reporting, ensuring robust governance, high‑quality learning, and continuous improvement. The post holder acts as a trusted expert and advisor for patient safety, supporting and developing clinical teams through training, guidance and assurance, using safety data (including Datix) to identify themes, trends and risks, and ensuring effective escalation, assurance and learning through hospital‑level governance structures
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate complex issues to clinical staff, patients and members of the public.
- Ability to interrogate systems to analyse data and review other internal and external sources of data.
- Skilled in facilitation of learning responses
- Ability to produce high quality analytical reports relating to patient safety focusing on improvements/change requirements.
- Ability to influence, negotiate and deliver exceptional results through others (both within and particularly outside of own team
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical governance knowledge and the national patient safety strategy and direction
- High level understanding of Systems based approach to patient safety investigation
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of Human Factors
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive experience in the safety and quality governance environment with an emphasis on patient safety/clinical risk
- Substantial Investigation experience of clinical incidents, with understanding of methodologies and systems for reporting
Desirable
- Experience of leading Quality Improvement Projects using established methodology
- Design and delivery of educational and training programs to all levels of staff
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Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master’s Degree level, or equivalent experience
- Current professional clinical registration
- ucated in systems approach to learning from patient safety (in line with PSIRF Standards)
Desirable
- Relevant post graduate qualification /experience in patient safety / human factors
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This advert is for Patient Safety Manager with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inc. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Jul 2026.
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