Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator to organize and facilitate trust-wide learning events. The successful candidate will promote patient safety and quality improvement through effective communication and governance. A full UK driving licence is required for this role, which aims to enhance care for a diverse community.

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 sharing of timely learning across Directorates.
• Ensure high quality governance for learning events.
• Promote a culture of learning and patient safety.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues.
• Produce reports on patient safety events.
• Maintain the Staffroom patient safety events page.

Job description

Overview

The Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator role is within the Patient Safety team, part of the Corporate Directorate of Nursing and Quality. The team sets the strategic direction for patient safety, delivers both reactive and proactive patient safety improvement work, and provides education and training to enable and support front line staff to keep patients and staff safer.

The post holder will 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 support 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 will be on a frequent, possibly weekly basis.
• Ensure high quality governance is maintained for the learning events.
• Participate in continually 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.

About KMPT

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, serving an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas. We are proud to employ friendly, passionate colleagues 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 and Vision

Our mission is what we set out to do every day: we deliver brilliant care through brilliant people.

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

Requirements

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).

Closing Date

This advert closes on Thursday 9 Oct 2025.