Job summary
Can you provide Charity-wide oversight, leadership and direction within Patient Safety? We have an exciting fixed-term opportunity for a Head of Patient Safety within our Charity.
Main duties of the job
This is a senior leadership role which will report to the Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality and work closely with the Executive Director of Nursing and Quality to provide strong professional leadership across the scope of the patient safety and quality agenda to ensure high quality safe clinical care is delivered consistently across the Charity.
About us
Our Charity
We are St Andrew's. We are a mental health charity, and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.
We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.
Come and join us and support us to help people transform their lives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will work collaboratively to lead the direction of Charity Quality Strategy ensuring frameworks are in place with effective processes, systems and training to support our people to implement these frameworks to ensure safe, high-quality care for patients. Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing patient safety expertise and leadership throughout the Charity
- Working closely with colleagues to develop the culture of care at St Andrews aligned to the principles of a Just and Learning organisation.
- Leading on the implementation and embedding of the Patient Safety incident response framework (PSIRF).
- Taking overall responsibility for leading and developing patient safety strategies, policies and activities across the Charity.
- Being the recognised expert leading on patient safety including being able to provide professional and specialist knowledge on patient safety and safety improvement practices.
- Ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in patient safety processes.
- Maintaining the principles of openness and honesty with patients and their families, providing leadership across the organisation on Duty of Candour obligations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will work collaboratively to lead the direction of Charity Quality Strategy ensuring frameworks are in place with effective processes, systems and training to support our people to implement these frameworks to ensure safe, high-quality care for patients. Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing patient safety expertise and leadership throughout the Charity
- Working closely with colleagues to develop the culture of care at St Andrews aligned to the principles of a Just and Learning organisation.
- Leading on the implementation and embedding of the Patient Safety incident response framework (PSIRF).
- Taking overall responsibility for leading and developing patient safety strategies, policies and activities across the Charity.
- Being the recognised expert leading on patient safety including being able to provide professional and specialist knowledge on patient safety and safety improvement practices.
- Ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in patient safety processes.
- Maintaining the principles of openness and honesty with patients and their families, providing leadership across the organisation on Duty of Candour obligations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- You will have significant experience of working within the Patient Safety field with high level knowledge of all current issues, including regulatory requirements related to safety and quality and regulation.
- You will hold a relevant specialist clinical/healthcare qualification and professional registration.
Experience
Essential
- You will have significant experience of working within the Patient Safety field with high level knowledge of all current issues, including regulatory requirements related to safety and quality and regulation. You will bring extensive experience of managing and motivating diverse and multi-professional teams and have a strong track record of achieving quality improvements.
- You will hold a relevant specialist clinical/healthcare qualification and professional registration.
- You will also bring experience of achieving improvements for patients through service transformation involving staff, patients, their families and other stakeholders. You will have both the breadth and depth of skills to fulfil the role described above and strong leadership skills to inspire and lead with a focus on excellence and accountability.
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- You will also be a role model for the St Andrews CARE values and the pillars of our Leadership Commitment including compassionate, person-centred care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- You will have significant experience of working within the Patient Safety field with high level knowledge of all current issues, including regulatory requirements related to safety and quality and regulation.
- You will hold a relevant specialist clinical/healthcare qualification and professional registration.
Experience
Essential
- You will have significant experience of working within the Patient Safety field with high level knowledge of all current issues, including regulatory requirements related to safety and quality and regulation. You will bring extensive experience of managing and motivating diverse and multi-professional teams and have a strong track record of achieving quality improvements.
- You will hold a relevant specialist clinical/healthcare qualification and professional registration.
- You will also bring experience of achieving improvements for patients through service transformation involving staff, patients, their families and other stakeholders. You will have both the breadth and depth of skills to fulfil the role described above and strong leadership skills to inspire and lead with a focus on excellence and accountability.
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- You will also be a role model for the St Andrews CARE values and the pillars of our Leadership Commitment including compassionate, person-centred care.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
