Head of Patient Safety (PHU)

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

Band: 8b

Hours: 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Base location: Queen Alexandra Hospital Southwick Hill Road Cosham Portsmouth PO6 3LY. Across site travel will be required the frequency will be agreed locally.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and inspirational senior leader to join us as Head of Patient Safety. This is a key leadership role with responsibility for driving patient safety improvement and learning across PHU while contributing to a shared corporate service working across two NHS Trusts.

The post holder will provide strategic leadership for patient safety ensuring robust systems are in place to identify investigate and learn from patient safety incidents. You will play a central role in embedding a culture of compassion openness and continuous improvement aligned with national patient safety priorities and organisational objectives.

The role reports to the Associate Director of Quality Governance and is accountable to the Deputy Chief Nurse (Group).

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for patient safety across the organisation.
• Lead the development implementation and embedding of patient safety frameworks policies and learning systems.
• Ensure effective systems for reporting investigating responding to and learning from patient safety incidents including learning from deaths.
• Lead and manage the Patient Safety Team including staff development appraisal and workforce planning.
• Work collaboratively with clinical leaders quality improvement teams and corporate colleagues to embed safety learning into practice.
• Provide expert advice and assurance to senior leaders and Trust committees including the preparation of highquality reports.
• Represent the Trust internally and externally on patient safety matters working with system partners as required.
• Work collaboratively with regulators commissioners and other partners including NHS England ICB and the CQC.

About You

You will be a confident compassionate and credible senior leader with a strong background in patient safety and quality within an acute healthcare setting. You will have the ability to influence at senior and Board level manage complexity and lead change through collaboration and evidencebased improvement.

You will bring excellent communication skills sound judgement and a clear commitment to creating a just and learning culture that improves outcomes for patients families and staff.

You will demonstrate:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to handle sensitive and complex information.
• Excellent organisational and analytical skills with attention to detail.
• The ability to build effective working relationships with clinical and nonclinical teams.
• A proactive approach to learning improvement and patient safety.
• A commitment to Trust values and continuous professional development.

Qualifications :

Qualifications

Essential qualifications:

• Professional qualification with current or previous registration as a Registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional (NMC or HCPC).
• Masters degree or equivalent level of knowledge and experience.
• Evidence of recent and relevant continuing professional development.
• Significant senior clinical leadership experience within an acute healthcare setting.
• Demonstrable knowledge of the national patient safety agenda.
• Experience of leading patient safety investigations and quality improvement activity.
• Experience of managing staff and contributing to service development at organisational level.

Desirable:

• Patient Safety Syllabus (Levels 14).
• Formal safety science or investigation science training.
• Experience of working across organisational or system boundaries.
• Budget or resource management experience.

Additional Information :

Why Join Us

Youll be joining a forward-thinking collaborative team working across two innovative NHS Trusts. We are committed to professional development inclusive leadership and fostering a culture of learning and excellence. Youll have the opportunity to influence at a senior level and shape the future of quality governance across both organisations.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and DisAbility and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time