Patient Safety Reviewer

We are recruiting for a Patient Safety Reviewer to join our team at Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. You'll work with the Patient Safety Team, Directorate Governance Teams, Family Liaison Officers and Complaint Managers to lead a high quality process for reviewing and identifying learning from Patient Safety and/or complex complaints.
This is a full time role (37.5 hours per week) based at our Littlemore Mental Health Centre with travel required across our Trust directorates so you will need to have the ability to travel freely between sites.
You'll be a key member of the incident response function in patient safety reviews and/or complex complaints ensuring that an effective review takes place in order to identify learning and required changes in practice to prevent or reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence.
This is a challenging but rewarding role within a busy and small team (8 people) where you'll work collaboratively with clinical staff and patient/family to identify areas of improvement and make a positive impact in our aim to deliver our services successfully to the highest standard. You'll be working in a restorative, just and learning culture determined to make positive changes for the future.
If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have excellent analytical and report-writing skills with a background in patient safety or clinical governance then we would love to hear from you!

Main duties of the job
This role covers the Buckinghamshire Mental Health Directorate, however we do cover all directorates in the Trust which include Community, Mental Health and Forensic/Specialised Services so you will have the opportunity to gain knowledge of many different services/teams, and different types of incidents (although due to nature of our service self harm/suspected suicide are the majority of reviews).
Main duties include:
+ Be an expert in Patient Safety and reviews, techniques and practice, including Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS) and Human Factors
+ Monitor and interpret national guidance and policy in order to ensure that Trust procedures and practice comply or exceed best practice
+ Review patient safety incidents and/or complex complaints, acting as a role model and expert advisor for other staff involved in the reviews ensuring that all reviews are carried out to the highest possible standards
+ Produce high quality reports that identify the system and process factors that led to the incident/complaint occurring, suggesting safety actions for change in practice
+ Analyse themes and patterns from incidents and complaints to support learning and changes, presenting these in internal forums
+ Work flexibly as part of wider Patient Safety, undertaking duties and activities relevant to level of post to improve the experience of patients and staff
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties, + All new starters have a thorough induction process, both local and Trust wide, which aims to create a positive supportive working environment allowing new employees to learn key elements of their role over a reasonable timescale.
+ Appointment to this post is subject to the trust receiving satisfactory references covering 3 years of employment or study. Please ask your referees to respond promptly to reference requests.
+ Employees are expected to undertake mandatory and statutory training related to their role.
+ We are ambitious in our pursuit of excellence, driven by the belief that a fair, just and fully inclusive organisational culture enables our teams to deliver the best quality of care and services possible and we work hard to ensure that our diverse workforce reflects the communities that we serve.
+ We welcome applications from all sections of the community, are an Equal Opportunities employer with a number of internal networking groups to support our employees and where possible will always look to make reasonable adjustments in order that you can fulfil the role to recognise your full potential. All our employees are committed to demonstrating through their behaviour our core values - safe, caring and excellent.
+ Oxford Health is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
+ Oxford is a world-renowned centre of excellence for research. Oxford Health works closely with the University of Oxford department of Psychiatry and the Department of Primary care, has a Biomedical Research Centre dedicated to improving mental health and the NIHR Clinical Research Facility at the Warneford site. The Trust also hosts the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) which carries out applied research that directly impacts patient health and wellbeing

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
We actively support anti-racism, equality, diversity, and inclusion so, if you're excited about this job opportunity and you meet our Trust values, but feel unsure about applying, then please get in touch and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.
We are also committed to increasing diversity in the workforce, that is why we actively encourage applications from those groups of people who are currently under-represented, which include amongst others: people with disabilities; men from all socio-economic backgrounds; people from diverse ethnic backgrounds; and people from the LGBTQIA+ community., Oxford Health is a great place to work. To be able to showcase yourself when making an application you are encouraged to read the "candidate guide to making an application" which is attached to all roles.

Please include details of qualifications (including years these were gained particularly if we need to assess for clinical roles that these are still valid) and tailor your supporting statement to the role you are applying for, addressing the essential criteria found in the JD.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who or where you are, you will receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"
Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing:
+ Excellent opportunities for career progression
+ Individual and Trust wide learning and development
+ 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
+ NHS Discount
+ Pension scheme
+ Lease car scheme
+ Employee Assistance Programme
+ Mental Health First Aiders
+ Staff accommodation (waiting lists may apply)
+ Staff networking and support groups