Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and highly motivated individual to join a high performing Patient Safety Team at Newcastle Hospitals. We are seeking an inspirational leader with a drive to make a real difference to patient safety who has experience of working with a wide range of professionals at all levels within the healthcare setting.
In addition to contributing to key functions of the patient safety team, the post holder will take a lead role in mortality surveillance and monitoring, including analysing mortality data and presenting the findings at various forums within the Trust.
The successful candidate will be able to operate at a strategic level, play a key part in the continuing development of services and contribute to organizational learning.
- Interview Date Wednesday, 09 October 2024
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy
Main duties of the job
This role works within the Patient Safety Team within the Clinical Governance and Risk Department.
The post holder will have a Trust-wide remit with responsibility for leading and facilitating developments in mortality surveillance, working closely with the Trust Medical Examiners. As we continue to transition to a new structure across the organisation, this post holder will also be responsible for supporting Clinical Boards with their quality and safety governance and will work closely with the Board Quality and Safety Leads as well as the Patient Safety Manager and Trust Patient Safety Specialists.
About us
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with over 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We're also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients 'contacts' each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people's race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To take a lead role on mortality surveillance and monitoring, including analysing mortality data produced locally and nationally and presenting findings to Trust groups, including Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator and VLAD data.
- To work closely with the Medical Examiners to ensure compliance with the expected standard of Level 1 and Level 2 mortality reviews.
- To work closely with the Clinical Boards in order to ensure Mortality and Morbidity meetings have an agreed agenda and that the quality of the reviews meets the standard as laid out in Trust Policy and the Royal College of Surgeons good practice guide.
- To support the Clinical Boards to review, analyse and interpret their mortality data and understand the significance of themes and trends.
- Support the Trusts patient safety and risk management function.
- To lead on the effective use of obtaining, interpreting and reporting on mortality data from data management systems.
- Using the risk management systems, support the Clinical Boards to use Datix for incident reporting and help them interpret this data in order to identify key patient safety and risk areas.
- To work closely with the Patient Safety Manager and Head of Patient Safety to ensure that appropriate risk management and patient safety related policies and processes are implemented effectively.
- To deputise for the Patient Safety Manager as required.
- Provision of a wide range of education for clinical and non-clinical staff, including incident investigator training, Trust Induction and other patient safety related education.
- To take a lead role in the analysis/incident investigation process to ensure lessons are learnt and shared appropriately, particularly in relation to Trust identified Patient Safety Incidents (PSIs) and safety themes, aligned to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), of the National Patient Safety Strategy.
- Responsible for the supervision and management of other staff, plays a key management role in the department.
- To contribute as a senior member of the Clinical Governance & Risk Department (CGARD) to broader developments as required.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To take a lead role on mortality surveillance and monitoring, including analysing mortality data produced locally and nationally and presenting findings to Trust groups, including Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator and VLAD data.
- To work closely with the Medical Examiners to ensure compliance with the expected standard of Level 1 and Level 2 mortality reviews.
- To work closely with the Clinical Boards in order to ensure Mortality and Morbidity meetings have an agreed agenda and that the quality of the reviews meets the standard as laid out in Trust Policy and the Royal College of Surgeons good practice guide.
- To support the Clinical Boards to review, analyse and interpret their mortality data and understand the significance of themes and trends.
- Support the Trusts patient safety and risk management function.
- To lead on the effective use of obtaining, interpreting and reporting on mortality data from data management systems.
- Using the risk management systems, support the Clinical Boards to use Datix for incident reporting and help them interpret this data in order to identify key patient safety and risk areas.
- To work closely with the Patient Safety Manager and Head of Patient Safety to ensure that appropriate risk management and patient safety related policies and processes are implemented effectively.
- To deputise for the Patient Safety Manager as required.
- Provision of a wide range of education for clinical and non-clinical staff, including incident investigator training, Trust Induction and other patient safety related education.
- To take a lead role in the analysis/incident investigation process to ensure lessons are learnt and shared appropriately, particularly in relation to Trust identified Patient Safety Incidents (PSIs) and safety themes, aligned to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), of the National Patient Safety Strategy.
- Responsible for the supervision and management of other staff, plays a key management role in the department.
- To contribute as a senior member of the Clinical Governance & Risk Department (CGARD) to broader developments as required.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first months pay.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree level qualification or equivalent highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
- Post Graduate Qualification to Masters or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of patient safety and clinical governance regulation and legislation, such as Duty of Candour
- Experience of leading change/projects/ Quality Improvement
- Detailed understanding of the concepts of Patient Safety and Risk Management
- Experience of current generation IT systems
- Experience of incident reporting systems and incident investigation
Desirable
- Knowledge of Datix System
- Knowledge of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
- Knowledge of mortality surveillance and learning from death processes
- Understanding of the regulatory requirements for NHS organisations in relation to patient safety
- Experience of working in Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Well-developed leadership, communication, influencing and negotiation skills including the ability to represent the department, engendering respect and confidence when explaining complex issues to managers and colleagues across all levels of the Trust
- Ability to write reports that are clear and informative, including presentation and analysis of complex data
- Ability to think strategically and creatively and contribute to the objectives of the Department
Person Specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential
- Degree level qualification or equivalent highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience
- Post Graduate Qualification to Masters or equivalent experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and understanding of patient safety and clinical governance regulation and legislation, such as Duty of Candour
- Experience of leading change/projects/ Quality Improvement
- Detailed understanding of the concepts of Patient Safety and Risk Management
- Experience of current generation IT systems
- Experience of incident reporting systems and incident investigation
Desirable
- Knowledge of Datix System
- Knowledge of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
- Knowledge of mortality surveillance and learning from death processes
- Understanding of the regulatory requirements for NHS organisations in relation to patient safety
- Experience of working in Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Well-developed leadership, communication, influencing and negotiation skills including the ability to represent the department, engendering respect and confidence when explaining complex issues to managers and colleagues across all levels of the Trust
- Ability to write reports that are clear and informative, including presentation and analysis of complex data
- Ability to think strategically and creatively and contribute to the objectives of the Department
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
