Patient Safety, Incidents & Learning Clinical Lead

NHS Jobs; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs is seeking a Patient Safety, Incidents & Learning Clinical Lead to drive the reporting, investigation and learning from patient safety incidents across the ICB. The role focuses on ensuring high-quality care, timely reporting, and robust data triangulation to identify themes and guide improvement actions.

You will collaborate with Trusts, providers and quality teams to maintain incident management systems, deliver training, and produce reports for Boards, while supporting the

Qualifications

• Experience in patient safety incident reporting and learning.
• Knowledge of national safety frameworks (PSIRF) is beneficial.
• Ability to analyse data and present actionable learning insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead for patient safety incidents reporting, investigation and learning across the ICB.
• Coordinate with providers to triangulate data and identify themes, trends and improvement actions.
• Develop and deliver training on incident management and Datix usage across the system.
• Produce regular safety and quality reports for Boards and Committees and support governance processes.
• Support PSIRF policy implementation and monitoring of national alerts and CAS/MHRA notices.

Job description

Patient Safety, Incidents & Learning Clinical Lead

Please refer to the full job description and person specification attached. The postholder will be responsible for: Responsible for liaising with all health care providers strategically commissioned by the ICB to ensure patient safety incidents, never events and quality matters are reported, collated and triangulated with other key information, in order to identify themes and trends that can be actioned to ensure the safe delivery of high-quality care across the system. Support programmes of work in relation to Patient Safety, Incidents and Learning and work collaboratively across the system to support Quality Improvement (QI) initiatives across the ICB in accordance with the ICB objectives. Work closely with colleagues to ensure the management, development and maintenance of Datix systems across the ICBs and ensure robust reporting system are in place. Support an organisational safety culture that focuses on high quality care and standards, preventing avoidable harm by analysing and interpreting trends, themes, lessons learnt and best evidence to inform on patient harm. Ensure all incidents within the system are captured, reported, investigated and monitored and that learning from incidents is disseminated across the ICBs to support improvements in the safety and quality of care. Responsible for co-ordinating compliance with incident investigations, duty of candour and other areas of patient safety to ensure the ICB achieves sound learning for improvement and compliance with statutory duties. Ensure incident management systems are kept up to date with accurate information in a timely manner. Monitoring compliance with actions identified following investigations as set out within the National Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) Ensure that all serious incidents are reported onto STEIS / LFPSE in a timely and effective manner that complies with lead commissioner requirements. Ensuring that a robust tracking and monitoring mechanism is in place across the ICB and information feeds into the ICB quality and safety management processes. Ensure that Duty of Candour procedures are undertaken in accordance to ICB policy with respect to all incidents and those that meet the serious incident criteria. Provide expert advice, support, guidance and training to colleagues on the use of incident management & recording systems and other relevant databases. Working closely with Quality & Safety Teams to ensure full triangulation of information relating to themes and trends of patient safety incidents. Support the review and implementation of ICB Serious Incident policy including the development of standard operating procedures to inform process. Lead of the production of a range of reports as required by the relevant Boards and Committees and other stakeholders. Lead on the delivery of the data quality and timeliness of incident reporting to national reporting systems and completing analysis and setting recommendations for the ICB. Proactively analyse themes and trends from the incident management systems to feed into learning events and training requirements. Attending ICB sub-groups/committees as determined appropriate by Line Manager to present patient safety information to inform wider teams. Develop and present regular training sessions as deemed relevant on serious incident and investigation methodology. Support the Quality, Intelligence & Patient Safety Senior Lead on the dissemination of learning from investigations across the ICB through development of Patient Safety alerts, newsletters, attendance at place based quality meetings and team meetings and to actively encourage and support through all available means, learning from patient safety incidents, including sharing good practice through formal learning events across the organisation. Enabling internal benchmarking and sharing of good practice, through analysis and interpretation of results/findings, using other means such as NHS Benchmarking data to enable external benchmarking. Support the development and management of patient safety projects and initiatives working collaboratively with wider teams across the ICB and external partners. Responsible for the appropriate dissemination of CAS alerts, MHRA alerts and any other national patient safety notices. Monitoring any actions and progress against any national alerts Supporting the implementation of the national Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) policy and plans for the ICB and monitoring of provider PSIRF plans