# Patient Safety Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/patient-safety-manager/2b8288c2-c8be-4444-b763-a859ddffe16e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/patient-safety-manager/2b8288c2-c8be-4444-b763-a859ddffe16e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £66,274 - £73,496 per annum inc - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-03T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-19T11:33:23.326Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Clinical_Governance/Clinical_Governance-v8097628 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8097628?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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 ## Job Details 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. ## Job Description 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 ## 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 - v ### 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 ## Documents - [patient safety manager (pdf, 511.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10391493) - [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119) - [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446) - [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.