Patient Safety Project Support

Job summary

The UHDB Corporate Patient Safety Team are passionate about supporting the organisation to deliver high quality care to our service users and their families. We are seeking a proactive and motivated Patient Safety Project Support to join our team and support our mission. The ideal candidate will be responsible for sourcing data from relevant sources, analysing themes and trends within the data and presenting this to the team and wider stakeholders in an accessible way. The candidate will also be required to use their analytic skills to support the team with patient safety workstreams to establish, complete and monitor ongoing improvement work.

Qualifications and Skills: We are looking for a candidate with proven experience in analysing data and project management. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required, along with the ability to work under own authority, plan, and prioritise tasks to meet deadlines. Adaptability to work in a dynamic and busy office environment is also crucial.

Main duties of the job

• To collate, analyse and triangulate patient safety data from multiple sources to inform reports and quality improvement projects.
• To prepare reports and analysis summaries to support the patient safety leads and the wider patient safety team. Present these reports and summaries at relevant patient safety meetings as requested.
• To provide ad-hoc support, collating information for specific requests both internally and externally (e.g. CQC or ICB data requests).
• To support the facilitation of learning from Patient Safety incidents through qualitative and quantitative data analysis.
• To provide administrative and project support for projects within the Patient Safety Team.
• To support with identifying and implementing ways of improving data collection, analysis and reporting processes.

Closing date of applications: 30 October 2024Interview date: 13 November 2024

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Derby Hospital

Uttoxeter Road

Derby

DE22 3NE

Employer's website

https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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