Head of Patient Safety & Learning

The Head of Patient Safety & Learning will report to the Associate Director of Quality Assurance & Clinical Compliance. The post holder will lead the Trust programme of work to enable excellent patient safety stewardship and learning throughout the Trust. This will include leadership and responsibility for our patient safety investigations, mortality review programmes and patient safety incident reporting systems.
The post holder will lead work on improving learning from incidents and support the Trust Medial Director and Nurse Director in the implementation of the National Patient Strategy in the Trust, inclusive of duties associated with the named Clinical Safety Officer role.
The post holder will need to be highly motivated, have the ability to work autonomously, encourage innovation in the field of patient safety practice development and have a track record of achievement in this domain. The post holder will promote the delivery of safe and compassionate care and deliver their work in way that supports colleagues to improve services.
Previous applicants need not apply., The Head of Patient Safety and Learning will report to the Associate Director of Patient Safety, Quality & Clinical Compliance. The post holder will coordinate the Trust programme of work to enable excellent patient safety stewardship and learning throughout the Trust to be achieved .
Coordinate the stewardship and development of patient safety activity throughout the Trust via:
+ Ensuring high standards of patient safety issues are identified , reported, and investigated. Enable the patient safety team to provide "Board to Ward" level patent safety assurance though reports, presentations, and workshops ( amongst other methods) using reliable data, patient and staff experiences alongside benchmarking and stakeholder feedback to inform reporting and assurance.
+ Embedding learning from patient safety events into clinical practice to ensure ongoing learning and quality improvement.
+ Leading on the Positive and Safe programme.
+ Support the Trust Medical Director and Director of Nursing Therapies and Quality with the development, implementation, and delivery of the National Patient Strategy. This will include leading the administration of the Trust patient safety group and its work plan.
+ Support the Trust's Medical Director in delivering the Trust process for mortality reviews. This will be achieved through oversight of the Trusts current mortality meetings, supporting the leads in Physical and Mental Health and liaising with the ICB as necessary.

We are seeking a senior professional with extensive experience of current NHS patient safety management in mental health, community physical health and learning disabilities care settings. The potential candidate must also have sound experience in clinical quality governance, healthcare regulatory and legal compliance and assurance alongside quality improvement to join our team.

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
+ 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
+ 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
+ 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
+ 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work., The Trust provides mental and social healthcare services, and specialist NHS services for people with learning disabilities to the population of Gloucestershire, together with physical community health and social care services.
This is a Trust wide role, with responsibility for team management, effective liaison with all Trust Directorates and reporting through the Associate Director of Patient Safety, Quality & Clinical Compliance within the domain of patient safety and associated activities.

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people's own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking 'what matters to you'.
We're passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us ., When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:
+ Free car parking at many of our sites
+ 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
+ A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
+ A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
+ Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when if you work unsocial hours
+ Flexible, family friendly and agile working opportunities
+ Recognition and long service awards
+ Fast Track physiotherapy
+ Our Wellbeing line
+ Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme and discounts on travel, leisure and retailers.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.
For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.