Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator

Florin Chilian; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is seeking a Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator to organise patient safety learning events. The role requires effective communication at all levels, high-quality report production, and supporting learning initiatives across Directorates. A valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle are essential for business purposes. This position offers opportunities for professional development within a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for business purposes.

Responsibilities

• Lead on the organisation of trust-wide patient safety learning events.
• Support the Trust in sharing timely learning across Directorates.
• Ensure high quality governance is maintained for events.
• Promote a culture of learning, patient safety, and quality improvement.
• Produce high-level reports for trust-wide quality reporting.

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 responsible for setting the strategic direction for patient safety, delivering reactive and proactive patient safety improvement work, and delivering education and training to enable and support frontline staff to keep patients and staff safer. The post holder will join the Garden of England with opportunities for strong professional development and a high quality of life.

Role purpose

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, the senior leadership team, specialist services, external stakeholders and agencies to deliver 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 may occur on a frequent, possibly weekly basis.
• Ensure high quality governance is maintained for the learning events.
• Participate in 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.

Person specification / Qualifications

• Full, valid UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).

Additional information

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 employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities and serve diverse communities. Our strategy is to deliver brilliant care through brilliant people, with a vision to provide outstanding care in the right place for every service user, every time.

Check out our recruitment videos Recruitment - YouTube. The post holder must hold a full, valid UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).