Patient Safety Manager

Job overview

The Patient Safety Manager is a crucial role in supporting services to achieve effective quality governance by embedding effective incident management and review processes into practice, supporting clinical teams and services with quality improvement in quality and patient safety, ensuring robust structures are in place for good practice to be shared and learning to take place proactively across teams in order to continue to build and embed the foundations of a strong patient safety culture across the organisation.

Main duties of the job

To drive improvements in the quality and safety of services for our patients and service users, drawing on information and learning from incident reviews, positive practice, networks and nationally published reports.

Please refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main responsibilities of the post include to:

• Review patient safety incidents and ensure adequate management by clinical teams
• Facilitate Patient Safety Incident Reviews
• Facilitate After Action Reviews
• Facilitate incident review training
• Deliver training in quality and safety for clinical staff.
• Attend Divisional governance meetings – for patient safety matters, and incident review meetings
• Provide timely information reports
• Identify themes across patient safety incidents
• Support the Legal Services Team in the management of cases for review by HM Coroner