Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator

Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust; Canterbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator to organise trust-wide learning events, promote a culture of patient safety, and support quality improvement initiatives. This role requires effective communication and the ability to manage multiple demands in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the organisation of trust wide patient safety learning events.
• Support the Trust in sharing timely and immediate learning across Directorates.
• Ensure high quality governance is maintained for the learning events.
• Participate in continuously promoting a culture of learning, patient safety and quality improvement.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels.
• Produce high level reports relating to patient safety events.
• Support trust wide news and learning by helping to maintain the Staffroom patient safety events page.
• Be flexible to meet the needs and demands of the service.

Job description

Overview

Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).

The Patient Safety team sits within the Corporate Directorate of Nursing and Quality. The team is required to set the strategic direction for patient safety, to deliver on reactive and proactive aspects of patient safety improvement work and to deliver education and training to enable and support front line staff to keep patients and staff safer.

The job purpose for the Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator is to organise and coordinate trust-wide patient safety learning events by working closely with the patient safety team, senior leadership team, specialist services, external stakeholders and agencies to deliver on successful and engaging events that promote learning and improvement.

The role will also include providing support to the patient safety team by working in line with the Patient Safety Incident and Response Framework (PSIRF), the Trust Suicide Prevention Approach and the Trust Strategy.

Main duties

• Lead on the organisation of trust wide patient safety learning events (virtual or in person).
• Support the Trust in sharing timely and immediate learning across Directorates by facilitating events or forums where topics can be discussed. This will be on a frequent, possibly weekly basis.
• Ensure high quality governance is maintained for the learning events
• Participate in continuously promoting a culture of learning, patient safety and quality improvement.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels.
• Produce high level reports relating to patient safety events and learning responses for trust wide quality reporting.
• Support trust wide news and learning by helping to maintain the Staffroom patient safety events page and patient safety hub.
• Be flexible to meet the needs and demands of the service by providing cross cover in the patient safety team when required.
• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others' workloads to meet changing and often tight deadlines.

Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.

We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.

Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.

We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.

You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.

The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.

Our strategy

Our mission is what we set out to do every dayWe deliver brilliant care through brilliant people

Our vision is where we want to be in the futureTo provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.