Head of Patient Safety

Job summary

This post is open to employees of the five LAASP organisations. As part of your application, you will be asked to confirm that you are a current employee of The Clatterbridge Centre, Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, Liverpool University Hospitals, Liverpool Women's Hospital or, The Walton Centre

Clatterbridge Cancer Centre is seeking to appoint a Head of Patient Safety to lead, manage and develop all aspects of patient safety including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), and quality governance within the Trust. With a particular focus on PSIRF, complaints and PALs. The post holder will develop, lead, implement and sustain an effective Trust patient safety strategy at both a strategic and operational level in line with the national patient safety strategy, and lead the patient safety committee. They will also oversee the process of patient safety investigations, learning, assurance mechanisms, patient safety/quality improvement projects and monitoring effectiveness to, and will lead on PSIRF learning responses, where appropriate, and Duty of Candour conversations with patients and families.

This role will provide the successful candidate with an opportunity to establish and develop a high performing patient safety and quality governance function across a multiple site organisation.

Main duties of the job

To be the Trust's patient safety expert; leading, managing and developing all aspects of patient safety including the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).

To continuously improve patient safety through implementation of the NHSE/I Patient Safety Strategy/National Patient Safety Strategy ensuring alignment with the Quality Strategy; leading the implementation PSIRF.

Management of the process of patient safety investigations, learning, assurance mechanisms, patient safety/quality improvement projects and monitoring effectiveness.

To support governance mechanisms so that Divisional staff manage patient safety investigations and implementation of learning and its effectiveness. To ensure there are effective safety reporting mechanisms and engagement with external stakeholders including the National Reporting and Learning System, NHS England and commissioners. To produce assurance reporting on the patient safety management and its links with learning and quality improvement.

To operationally lead across the quality governance agenda including complaints and PALs. Deputy to the Deputy Director of Quality Governance.

About us

The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's leading cancer centres providing highly specialist cancer care to a population of 2.4m people across Cheshire and Merseyside, and the surrounding areas, including North Wales and the Isle of Man.

Our vision is to not only maintain this level of commitment to excellence but to work with our academic and healthcare partners across the region to ensure care, treatment and patient outcomes continuously improve in the future. We are very proud of all our expert and loyal staff and we welcome people who share the collective aim of delivering excellence in everything that we do.

Our values represent who we are and what we believe in. They define how we act to deliver the best possible care for our patients and shape The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre as a great place to work.

We are -

• Kind
• Empowered
• Responsible
• Inclusive

Vision, mission and values :: The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre