Quality & Patient Safety Officer

Job overview

Closing Date: 01.11.26 (this may change dependent on response).

Shortlisting to take place following closing date commencing 02.11.26

Interview expected to take place 11.11.26

Due to current Home Office Guidelines, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is unable to provide sponsorship for this role.

Are you passionate about improving patient safety, quality of care, and healthcare governance? We are looking for a proactive and motivated Quality & Patient Safety Officer to join our Quality Team and help drive quality improvement, patient safety, clinical audit, and governance initiatives across our clinical services.

You will have:

• Degree-level education (or equivalent experience).
• Experience in a quality, governance, audit, or patient safety-related role.
• Strong data analysis, report writing and presentation skills.
• Excellent communication, organisation and IT skills, particularly in Excel, Word and databases.
• Knowledge of clinical audit, data analysis and healthcare quality standards.

Main duties of the job

In this rewarding role, you will:

• Support incident management, investigations, risk management and quality governance processes.
• Analyse and present quality and patient safety data to inform decision-making.
• Coordinate audits, quality improvement projects, action plans and tracking.
• Prepare reports and provide support to Quality & Safety meetings.
• Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to promote learning, improvement and compliance with regulatory standards.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder will:

• Support the Quality and Patient Safety Facilitator to identify learning from patient safety incidents; support compliance with CQC fundamental standards and support staff in identifying and developing appropriate audit (including quantitative and qualitative) and the development of quality and safety improvement initiatives across CSU’s.
• Assist with supporting delivery of the quality governance agenda within the CSU and work closely with Quality Improvement, Assurance and Effectiveness Teams.
• Support with preparing, producing and disseminating reports within the group. Assist in ensuring that actions arising from patient incident investigation, complaints, audit and other sources are completed and evidenced within the CSU and that learning is shared across the organisation where appropriate.
• Be responsible for the maintenance of compliance databases and other quality governance trackers. Ensure that data gathering, presentation and storage methods comply with the principles of Information Governance and the Data Protection Act.
• Support the Quality and Patient Safety Facilitator to ensure the Trust fulfils its statutory obligations for reporting on the range of safety and quality issues, including Data Protection, Duty of Candour, Freedom of Information and CQC Standards.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.