Head of Safety | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Care Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Preston is seeking a motivated individual to support patient safety initiatives. The role involves facilitating a learning culture and ensuring oversight in patient safety. The ideal candidate will have experience in learning reviews, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work collaboratively within the team. Flexible working options are available.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Positive work/life balance

Qualifications

• Self-driven with a flexible approach.
• Experience of undertaking learning reviews is essential.

Responsibilities

• Building a learning culture through high-quality learning responses.
• Supporting patient safety oversight and assurance.
• Leading to measurable cultural change in patient safety.

Skills

Excellent communication

Interpersonal skills

Organisational skills

Attention to detail

Job description

Supporting the Assistant Director of Patient Safety, focusing on developing a learning culture and tools for assurance, supporting the delivery of the patient safety incident investigation framework (PSIRF), the postholder will be an integral member of the Patient Safety Team.

You will need to be self‑driven with excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to work at all levels of the organization.

You will take pride in your work, be highly motivated, professional, have a flexible approach, good organisational skills, excellent attention to detail and be able to work to deadlines. Experience of undertaking learning reviews is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Building a learning culture through the development of high‑quality learning responses
• Supporting patient safety oversight and assurance through committee papers and reviews, working with safety analytics and improvement teams to improve patient care
• Supporting the continued improvement of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework leading to measurable cultural change in patient safety

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well‑being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi‑time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For further information about the role, please see the attached recruitment pack which includes a detailed job description and person specification, or visit our website via Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS FT.

This advert closes on Thursday 20 Nov 2025