Patient Safety and Quality Manager

Florin Chilian; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking a motivated Patient Safety and Quality Manager to support investigations and enhance patient safety. The ideal candidate will oversee processes ensuring high-quality care, providing leadership within the Patient Safety Team, and utilizing investigation science methodologies. Current employment within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts is a prerequisite for applicants.

Qualifications

• Registered professional with relevant experience in patient safety.
• Proven expertise in investigation science methodologies.
• Ability to lead and manage improvement functions.

Responsibilities

• Support investigations and learning responses in patient safety.
• Triangulate data and identify themes to promote safe care.
• Provide advice and support to the patient safety team.

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).

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, highly motivated, organised and experienced registered professional to join the Patient Safety Team.

The successful post holder will play a vital role in supporting the completion of investigations and learning responses, triangulating data and identifying themes and trends to reduce risk and promote safe, high-quality care. As Patient Safety and Quality Manager, you will help to ensure investigations and reviews are completed to a high standard, using PSIRF and investigation science methodologies. You will focus on timeliness, quality, and the effectiveness of actions and safety improvement programmes whilst also providing advice and support to a team of patient safety improvement facilitators, patient safety investigators, and directorate leads on a range of complex issues, including investigation scope, terms of reference, and stakeholder engagement.

Strategically lead the investigator and improvement function within the patient safety team, ensuring learning is clearly identified and articulated and incorporated into improvement actions. Assure improvement progress to the Head of Patient Safety by triangulating available data to map improvement work and identify areas where quality is at risk of being compromised and the impact that will have on the strategic direction of safety work of the Trust.