Patient Safety Manager

Job summary

The Governance Team of Hampshire Hospitals NHS FT (HHFT) is seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our team for a secondment in the role of Patient Safety Manager. You will champion and promote patient safety improvement across the Trust and lead the Learning from Deaths processes.

As the ideal candidate you should have a sound knowledge of the national patient safety strategy and a track record in delivering improvements. You will also have excellent team and communication skills to enable you to influence and encourage working to enhance the safety of patients. A clinical professional qualification / background is required.

Main duties of the job

The Patient Safety Manager is responsible for ensuring that systems and processes are in place to monitor patient safety with an emphasis on learning from deaths, learning from incidents and responding to national safety alerts.

The role will also include the delivery of the Trust patient safety priorities, promotion of a safety culture that emphasises learning (including shared learning) and direct support to staff undertaking learning responses and thematic reviews.

The post holder will be an expert in the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and will assist the Associate Director of Governance and Head of Patient Safety and Risk to deliver the Trust safety strategy.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs over 8,600 staff and has a turnover of over £450 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

We expect the post holder to uphold the trust's CARE values:

COMPASSION caring about our patients and our staff

ACCOUNTABLE and responsible, always improving

RESPECT for all colleagues, patients and their families

ENCOURAGING and challenging each other to always do our best