Patient Safety Incident Response Lead

We have created three exciting new roles for the next twelve months in our well-established and supportive Directorate Clinical Quality Governance Teams. If you want the chance to have greater impact on patient safety and improving the way we respond to and learn from incidents to support delivery of high quality patient care, this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for. Working as part of DMH, FYPCLDA or CHS, you will report into the Clinical Quality Governance Lead in the respective area, working both virtually and face to face with County Hall as your named base.

As part of this role, you get to oversee the Directorate patient safety incident response process, tracking learning responses from Initial Service Manager Review through Incident Review and Learning Meetings to completion. You will be working across a range of clinical services, broadening your knowledge of the Directorate and building valuable networks. The role is full time (37.5 hours per week) and will operate primarily from Monday to Friday.

The Directorate Clinical Quality Governance Teams will provide training, regular supervision and support to rapidly upskill successful candidates. Keeping all your existing NHS benefits, this secondment / fixed term post offers the opportunity to develop sought after, transferable new skills and broaden your knowledge in readiness for future progression.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for people with a passion for patient safety and great people skills, as all our incident learning responses must meaningfully involve patients, families, and staff. You will support and advise patient safety investigators through regular check-ins, to ensure that investigations and reports are comprehensive, adhere to LPTs Report Writing Standards and are completed on time. You will proof-read and be responsible for the standard and quality of investigation reports prior to review by senior Directorate Leads and Directors.

You will ensure early escalation of risks are identified through the investigation process to the Head of Nursing and ensure that areas for improvement and associated actions will effectively mitigate risks identified. The post holder will liaise with the Legal Team regarding report readiness for the coroners and ensure learning through this process informs LPTs responses and improvement cycle. You will be instrumental in supporting the Directorate to quality assure the evidence required to complete agreed actions and ensure grip and pace on the patient safety agenda., patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri

We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working