Head of Patient Safety

We are seeking a dynamic Head of Patient Safety to provide senior leadership and facilitation of the Patient Safety Strategy across the University Hospitals of Northampton, Northampton and Kettering sites. This is an exciting time to join us at UHN, this post will work across the group to monitor and analyse patient safety data to identify trends and areas for improvement work with the aim to deliver safe patient care.
The Head of Patient Safety and Improvement (HoPSI) will be accountable for providing compassionate and collaborative senior leadership, visibility and expert advice for patient safety and incident response within the organisation.
As the lead specialist the HoPS will work closing with all staff in addition to our clinical leaders to understand and explore the most effective approaches to improving patient safety and ensure that any patient safety-related responsibilities are effectively aligned., This is a senior leadership role with responsibilities across the organisation to lead, coach and support clinical teams, through their divisional structures, to continuously improve patient safety, applying multiple sources of insight to inform priorities and actions.
The role will oversee the framework for delivery of the Trust's Patient Safety, working with relevant clinical and operational leads and supporting reviews and reporting of progress in year to various Board level and operational committees/groups. It will also provide expert advice and support for the systems that support and inform patient safety, for example, Quality visits and ward accreditation leading on the design and implementation of a Patient Safety insight approach within multiple related systems across the trust.
This role is key in ensuring that UHN has an embedded safety culture that encompasses the principles of civility, psychological safety and restorative just cultures in a learning environment., Kettering General NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust are both part of the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group. Both hospitals are separate hospitals/employers with hospital board and leadership. We share a group executive team leading on a shared vision, mission, priorities, strategies and Dedicated to Excellence Values.
Our Excellence Values
+ Compassion
+ Accountability
+ Respect
+ Integrity
+ Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
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The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals., Responsibility for oversight of the implementation of the NHS patient safety strategy across UHN that includes PSIRF implementation, a system wide overview and change in culture and system learning approach.
Provide patient safety expertise/leadership within the organisation; demonstrating compassionate leadership, visibility and supporting the continued development of the patient safety culture.
Oversee and support patient safety improvement, ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in patient safety processes.
Ensure the organisation has a robust and effective patient safety strategy/patient safety incident response plan as part of PSIRF with planning to implement effectively.
At Northampton General Hospital we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence® designated accreditation from the American nurses credentialing centre (ANCC).
We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That's why we talk about Team NGH. It's all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Apply today and join the largest family in Northamptonshire.