Head of Patient Safety

Job summary

We are recruiting for 2 vacancies:

1 Full time Permanent

1 Full time Fixed Term role for 18 months.

NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT) is a unique organisation that carries our work to save and improves lives every single day. Our work is not just blood, and a key part of our organisation is Organ and Tissue Donation and Transplantation (OTDT).

We are looking for a Head of Patient Safety within the OTDT Directorate, this is a key leadership role within the OTDT; the emphasis is on delivering safe effective patient care whilst providing excellent acre to families and significant others. A keen focus on continuous improvement in donation, retrieval and transplantation is a key priority for the service and directorate.

Well look to you to bring leadership and focus through identification, innovative and problem-solving approaches to patient safety ensuring that all opportunities to bring improvement are realised, learning optimised and evidenced, and that we maintain our excellent collaborative relationships with our partners in the wider NHS. You will build relationships with internal and external stakeholders and, by providing passionate, and enthusiastic leadership, you will contribute to the excellence within the nursing teams.

Main duties of the job

The principal objective is to lead, direct and promote systemic improvements in Patient Safety and Healthcare throughout the OTDT Directorate and to support the Chief Nurse in leading patient safety initiatives directorate and system wide. Key accountabilities:

• Support the nursing and medical teams internal and external to OTDT in the leadership, development and implementation of Patient Safety processes across the Directorate which impact across the UK.
• Lead and direct the development and achievement of objectives and strategic goals for OTDT considering NHSBT and their wider impact and influence.
• Manage and provide leadership for the Patient Safety team within OTDT.
• Act as a clinical advisor for PSIRF, Safety strategies across OTDT.
• Develop, influence and support OTDT staff to prevent detect and mitigate risks that threaten the delivery of safe, effective and person-centred care.
• Analyse incident data for trends, escalating concerns with proposed recommendations at the earliest opportunity to the Chief Nurse.
• Share the learning from incidents and their management with those involved in organ donation and transplantation within OTDT and with external stakeholders to support patient safety through influenced changes to practice or process.
• Provide expert clinical advice on matters arising within the remit of Clinical Governance and Patient Safety within OTDT, NHSBT and the wider NHS.

About us

It takes all types of people to deliver the kind of service that saves and improves lives. At NHS Blood and Transplant, you'll join a team of more than 6,000 people who are making a genuine difference to communities, families, friends, relatives and more across the UK. We play a unique and special role in the NHS by helping people do something extraordinary- donate blood, blood products, organs, tissues, or stem cells to save someone in need.

Our three core values are what set us apart. They guide and inspire everything we do. By being caring, expertly meeting the needs of our patients and our people, and accepting nothing less than the best quality, we can do extraordinary work and help our people to do something extraordinary in their career, too.

Three small words, one big difference - Caring, Expert and Quality. Together we'll save and improve more lives than ever. You will join us on our journey to create an inclusive workplace and aim to reflect the diverse communities we work with, and we positively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.