Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness

We are looking to recruit a Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness.

We welcome applications from colleagues working at Band 8 or above. If you would like an informal conversation about the position, please contact sara.barr-frost@nhs.net

This is a central role and input will be into corporate and clinical teams across the Trust.

The teams in this portfolio includes Patient Safety, Serious Incident Investigators, Clinical Effectiveness, Resuscitation and Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression teams., Organisation-wide post, the post holder will work very closely with all clinical and non-clinical staff across the organisation in order to:.o Develop, implement and sustain the Trust's clinical governance and quality programmes.o Co-ordinate and strategically lead the Trust's patient safety, clinicaleffectiveness and audit department and have overall responsibility forensuring the development, planning and implementation of these aspects of the Trust's clinical and quality governance programme.o Lead the patient safety and clinical effectiveness teams in planning andimplementing a range of effective service developments and working in close collaboration with Network Directors, nurses and clinicians to improve patient care/safety and enhance clinical practice.o Work in close collaboration with the Clinical and Governance Team andNetwork Triumvirates.o To provide responses in partnership with the networks for all requests for information or submissions to NHSI, CQC, HSE and NHSLA.o To
develop and devise the Patient Safety and any associated policies across the organisation by leading a programme which recognises, reports, analyses, evaluates and minimises risk throughout the organisation.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We are really proud of ourPennineCare People and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.