Patient Safety Lead

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital trust in London is seeking a passionate Patient Safety Lead to implement safety strategies and improve patient safety culture. This role involves engaging with patients and staff, delivering Trust-wide safety initiatives, and promoting a just culture in patient safety processes. Candidates should have strong leadership skills and a deep understanding of patient safety challenges. Interested individuals can contact the Associate Director of Patient Safety for more details.

Qualifications

• Passion for patient safety and improvement.
• Strong leadership and subject matter expertise in patient safety culture.

Responsibilities

• Implement NHS Patient Safety Strategy.
• Improve understanding of safety using patient safety information.
• Deliver patient safety improvement activities across the Trust.

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Patient Safety Team at King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust for a passionate and highly motivated Patient Safety Lead. This role is key to supporting the Trust's understanding of systematic patient safety challenges, supporting the engagement and support of people affected by patient safety issues and the delivering of patient safety improvement interventions.

Responsibilities

• To implement the strategic aims of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy across King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the wider system to continuously improve patient safety, namely;
• improving understanding of safety by drawing intelligence from multiple sources of patient safety information (Insight)
• equipping patients, staff and partners with the skills and opportunities to improve patient safety throughout the whole system (Involvement)
• designing and supporting programmes that deliver effective and sustainable change in the most important areas (Improvement).
• To deliver Trust-wide patient safety improvement activity and ensure that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in all patient safety processes.
• To promote patient safety thinking beyond why things go wrong in healthcare (Safety I), to examining why things routinely go right and how that can be maximised (Safety II).
• To be a leader and subject matter expert for the organisation in regards to patient safety and safety culture.

About the Trust

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Andy Wilmer Job title: Associate Director of Patient Safety Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 02032993708