Patient Safety Team Administrator

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Patient Safety Team Administrator to work within the Patient Safety Team of the Quality and Clinical Performance Directorate of Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

The Patient Safety Team Administrator will work as a member of the Patient Safety Team and will assist in facilitating high quality safe care for service users by supporting staff in monitoring incidents and learning from these to continually improve the quality of care provided. The post holder will use a variety of administration skills.

They will support the Risk Management System (Safeguard) in incident management, risk reviews, safety alerts and support the reporting for learning review groups across the Trust. They will also contribute to supporting staff in on-line incident reporting.

The Patient Safety Team Administrator will promote a learning culture throughout the Trust, encouraging incident reporting and learning from incidents.

This post will also assist and provide administration and secretarial support for the management of the patient safety function and agenda.

Main duties of the job

To provide administrative support to the Patient Safety Team.

Responsible for updating the Safeguard System and Performance Plus with the outcome of Learning Review Groups and Patient Safety Learning Forums within each of the Care Groups.

Responsible for the administration of patient safety related training sessions, including (not exclusively) attendees, room booking and sending invitations.

Receive, log and acknowledge communications in relation to learning response processes.

Overseeing and managing the investigations / patient safety mailbox and responding to emails where applicable.

Support the facilitation of Patient Safety Team events including arranging venues and diary invites, etc.

Assist in providing and prioritising a range of administrative tasks for the Patient Safety Team, e.g. logging incidents, sending incidents to external providers for review.

To undertake data quality checks and merging within the Trust's incident reporting system Safeguard, and review and approve incidents within the database on a regular basis, including Patient Safety Events reportable to the national Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) service.

Contribute to delivering the requirements of the Patient Safety function; including meeting the requirements of PSIRF processes in accordance with the Trust PSIRF Policy.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications