# Safety Improvement Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/safety-improvement-specialist/401cb987-f214-49ad-b9e6-49642d651cc0 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/safety-improvement-specialist/401cb987-f214-49ad-b9e6-49642d651cc0.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Ambulance Headquarters, Nexus House - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Grade:** Senior - **Salary:** £64,455 - £74,896 not applicable - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2025-09-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2025-09-01T07:30:40.315Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Sussex/CRAWLEY/South_East_Coast_Ambulance_Service_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Safety_Improvement_Specialist/Safety_Improvement_Specialist-v7219587 - **Employer website:** https://www.secamb.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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: \[email protected\] ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information. - - Exceptional interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and inspire staff at all levels, promoting a culture of learning and continuous improvement. ### Knowledge **Essential** - In depth knowledge and understanding of the theories and causes of harm in healthcare, including reliability, patient safety and human factors. - Ability to identify contributary factors to adverse events and use this insight to inform improvement plans and learning at local and organisational level **Desirable** - Project Management ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of working within a healthcare environment with patient safety and system-wide quality Teams. - Experience in implementing human factors and systems-thinking approaches to improve safety and reliability within complex healthcare environments - Proven ability to lead multidisciplinary teams in patient safety initiatives, fostering collaboration across diverse professional groups - Ability to apply advanced human factors methodologies and analytical techniques to identify system-level **Desirable** - Experience and understanding of working within and/or with ambulance services - Evidence of change management ### Qualifications **Essential** - Undergraduate or Postgraduate level qualification in Ergonomics/Human Factors. - Qualification / Training in Patient Safety **Desirable** - Healthcare Professional with a relevant clinical qualification and registration - Postgraduate level qualification in a patient safety field - Technical membership / working towards Chartership with the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors or equivalent. ## Documents - [safety improvement specialist (pdf, 568.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=9455280) - [candidate application guidance (pdf, 302.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2968) - [employee information privacy notice (pdf, 242.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2103) ## 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.