Safety Improvement Specialist

Job overview

The Safety Improvement Specialist will serve as a dedicated expert in Patient Safety and Clinical Human Factors (HF) and Ergonomics, providing specialist advice across the Trust. The post holder will apply evidence-based HF methods and tools to improve the reliability and safety of healthcare systems and processes.

The post holder will play a key role in embedding HF principles into the Trust’s operational processes, ensuring systems and strategies are designed with an understanding of human behaviour to reduce errors and promote a culture of continuous learning and a just culture. They will also support the development of HF awareness and capability across the Trust, driving improvement by exploring interactions between people, systems, and processes, and redesigning tasks, interfaces, and workflows to optimise safety and performance. The role prioritises a systems-based approach, focusing on enhancing system performance rather than assigning blame to individuals.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will provide specialist Human Factors and ergonomics advice on the strategic planning of Human Factors programmes and their implementation.
• Deliver Human Factors and Ergonomics advice at an operational level across the Trust.
• Work across directorates and divisions to deliver proactive strategies to reduce Human Factors and Ergonomics patient safety risks through provision of specialist advice. This will include working closely with teams and managers across the Trust to review work systems, processes and physical layouts, following up on incidents and near misses, examining trends in occurrence and making recommendations to managers at all levels to reduce risk.
• Lead the safety improvement programme for the organisation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification. For an informal discussion about this position please contact Jo Turner, Deputy Chief Nurse at: [email protected]