MSE Patient Safety Facilitator | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is looking for an experienced Patient Safety Facilitator to support incident management and promote a culture of safety across its Trust. You will play a vital role in embedding the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and ensuring high-quality responses to incidents. If you have a passion for patient care and safety, this role offers an excellent opportunity for professional development in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in patient safety and incident management.
• Ability to promote a just culture focused on improvement.
• Strong communication and guidance skills.

Responsibilities

• Promote a just culture related to incident reporting.
• Support the serious incident management process.
• Provide expert advice in incident management and investigations.
• Deliver high-quality performance and aggregated incident reports.
• Assure internal and external bodies on patient safety issues.

Job description

Do you have what it takes or are you looking for a new challenge? We have an exciting opportunity for someone with the right experience to join the MSEFT Patient safety Team. We are a small team with a real focus on the patient and staff experience.

The Patient Safety facilitator will be key in supporting and developing the embedding of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) across the Trust, in addition to supporting processes for patient safety including the response to and management of incidents, investigations, never events, Duty of Candour and compliance with national patient safety alerts. The role is required to work leading patient safety across all sites within the Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust footprint.

So, if you want to use your expertise to ensure excellent patient care and safety across our trust, please apply today.

The Patient Safety Facilitator will work as a member of the Patient Safety Team to support an organisational safety culture that focusses on high quality care standards. They will support managers and staff to ensure all incidents within the Trust are reviewed and that there is an appropriate response.

Key responsibilities

• Promote a just culture that focusses on continuous improvement in relation to incident reporting and patient safety issues
• Support the management of the serious incident process
• Provide expert guidance and advice in incident and serious incident management and investigation in line with Trust, regional and national policy
• Provide high quality performance and aggregated incident reports
• Provide assurance to all necessary internal and external bodies or indicate to the organisation that pro‑active action needs to be taken to rectify gaps.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Are you looking for an exciting Patient Safety Facilitator role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you. For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

This advert closes on Thursday 27 Nov 2025