Patient Safety, Incidents & Learning Clinical Lead

Black Country Integrated Care Board; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Country Integrated Care Board invites applications for a Patient Safety Clinical Lead to drive safety, quality and improvement across Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country. The role provides clinical leadership for patient safety, incident management, investigation oversight and system learning.

You will review safety data, identify risks, support PSIRF, and partner with providers and clinicians to deliver reductions in harm and better outcomes through governance and learning.

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with clinical expertise.
• Experience in incident reviews and PSIRF framework.
• Ability to analyze safety data and identify trends.
• Collaborative approach with providers, clinicians and partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead patient safety, incident management and learning across Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country.
• Provide clinical expertise in incident reviews and PSIRF.
• Analyse safety intelligence to identify risks, themes and improvement opportunities.
• Support governance, provider partnerships and service improvement.

Skills

Patient safety

Incident management

Clinical leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Datix

Job description

Are you passionate about improving quality, patient safety and health and care services?

We are seeking an exceptional registered healthcare professional to join our Quality Team. You will lead patient safety, incident management and learning across Birmingham and Solihull and the Black Country, working with providers, NHS partners and stakeholders to improve outcomes and safety.

In a collaborative environment, you will influence strategic programmes, support quality improvement and help reduce health inequalities.

As Patient Safety Clinical Lead, you will provide clinical expertise in incident reviews, support the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), and analyse themes and trends. Working with clinical experts, senior leaders and partners, you will shape service improvement and safety initiatives.

Combining strategic influence with operational impact, you will review quality intelligence, identify emerging risks, support providers and governance, and ensure learning from incidents leads to meaningful change.

You will be curious, collaborative and committed, with confidence in analysing complex information, building relationships, challenging constructively and influencing across organisational boundaries.

If you want to deliver safer, better healthcare and develop within a supportive, innovative team, we would love to hear from you. Join us and help shape quality, safety and improvement across Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country., As Patient Safety Clinical Lead you will support the ICBs statutory duties for quality improvement and learning from incidents. Within the multidisciplinary Quality Team, you will provide clinical leadership for patient safety, incident management, investigation oversight and system learning.

You will lead quality workstreams supporting strategic priorities and service improvement. Working with providers, clinicians, commissioners and partners, you will identify risks, share learning and implement changes that reduce harm and improve outcomes.

You will provide clinical advice, oversee safety assurance, support PSIRF and promote continuous learning. You will analyse safety and quality intelligence to identify risks, trends and improvement opportunities.

You will build provider partnerships, facilitate improvement, monitor action plans and contribute to reviews, meetings, assurance visits and governance, ensuring services meet national standards and contractual requirements.

The role includes reviewing investigation learning, maintaining Datix, reporting to senior leaders and committees, and supporting quality governance. With Quality Improvement, Learning and Analytics leads, you will share learning and good practice across quality, commissioning and safeguarding teams to improve outcomes, reduce inequalities and deliver high-quality care.

This is an opportunity to influence change and improve patient care across Birmingham, Solihull and the Black Country.

Birmingham, the Black Country and Solihull Integrated Care Board (ICB) brings together the NHS, local councils and voluntary sector partners to support 2.7 million people. Our vision is to make the area the healthiest place to live and work by improving life chances and reducing inequalities.