Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Safety Manager

The closing date is 21 October 2025

Job summary

Surrey and Borders is looking for someone to support the delivery of the Trust's Patient Safety Incident Response Plan by undertaking and contributing to high quality patient safety incident reviews, ensuring that a proportionate response is taken in order to identify and embed learning from patient safety incidents across the organization.

Location: Mole Business Park, 18, off Ronson Way, Randalls Rd, Leatherhead KT22 7AD

Work Pattern: Flexible working

Main duties of the job

  • Support the delivery of the Trust's Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP) by undertaking and contributing to high-quality patient safety incident reviews.

  • Ensure that a proportionate response is taken to identify and embed learning from patient safety incidents across the organization.

  • Be responsible for the day-to-day management of patient safety incident reviews as allocated by the Head of the Safety Team.

  • Undertake reviews in line with a systems learning approach, ensuring involvement of patients, carers/families, Trust staff, and where appropriate, third parties in the review process.

About us

Working for our organization

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of health and social care services for people of all ages with mental ill-health and learning disabilities in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We also provide social care services for people with a learning disability in Croydon and ASD and ADHD assessment services in Hampshire.

We actively seek to engage people who use our services and our communities in improving the mental wellbeing of the local population. We work closely with other NHS and voluntary sector organisations who provide services and support people who use services and carers.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast.

Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach.

For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Would you like to work in an organization that sits in the top 10 best NHS Mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Services Trusts to work for? This ranking is based on staff feedback in the 2023 NHS Staff Survey.

Details

Date posted

14 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£40.22 an hour pa pro rata

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

384-SVM- Clinical Safety

Job locations

Mole Business Park

18, off Ronson Way, Randalls Rd, Leatherhead

KT22 7AD


Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to review, analyze, and use judgement in collating evidence and findings using the agreed PSIRP methods.

  • Identify systems learning from patient safety incidents to guide sustainable risk reduction and drive service improvement.

  • Ensure that Just and Learning Culture principles and human factors concepts are embedded throughout the review process.

  • Analyze and interpret complex and sensitive clinical and safety situations, using advanced communication and coaching skills to facilitate learning and improvement.

  • Contribute to decision-making processes that support patient safety, quality improvement, and organizational learning.

Job description

Job responsibilities

  • Work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders to review, analyze, and use judgement in collating evidence and findings using the agreed PSIRP methods.

  • Identify systems learning from patient safety incidents to guide sustainable risk reduction and drive service improvement.

  • Ensure that Just and Learning Culture principles and human factors concepts are embedded throughout the review process.

  • Analyze and interpret complex and sensitive clinical and safety situations, using advanced communication and coaching skills to facilitate learning and improvement.

  • Contribute to decision-making processes that support patient safety, quality improvement, and organizational learning.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered mental health nurse and vast experience in leadership, investigations and healthcare delivery
  • Trained in SEIPS or willing to undertake training in the SEIPS approach

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 2 years in extensive risk and Safety experience
  • A working knowledge of mental health legislation including the Mental Health Act, Mental capacity act and safeguarding requirements
  • Computer literate especially Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered mental health nurse and vast experience in leadership, investigations and healthcare delivery
  • Trained in SEIPS or willing to undertake training in the SEIPS approach

Experience

Essential

  • Minimum 2 years in extensive risk and Safety experience
  • A working knowledge of mental health legislation including the Mental Health Act, Mental capacity act and safeguarding requirements
  • Computer literate especially Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Mole Business Park

18, off Ronson Way, Randalls Rd, Leatherhead

KT22 7AD


Employer's website

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


Employer details

Employer name

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Mole Business Park

18, off Ronson Way, Randalls Rd, Leatherhead

KT22 7AD


Employer's website

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


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Manager

Maggie Gairdner

Maggie.Gairdner@sabp.nhs.uk

Details

Date posted

14 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£40.22 an hour pa pro rata

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

384-SVM- Clinical Safety

Job locations

Mole Business Park

18, off Ronson Way, Randalls Rd, Leatherhead

KT22 7AD


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