Patient Safety Officer | Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Croydon Health Services; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A local healthcare provider in London seeks an individual for a patient safety role focusing on quality improvement and effective support systems. You will be responsible for delivering daily operational processes and fostering a culture of learning through data analysis. This position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact on patient safety. Join a friendly team dedicated to providing high quality care and making a positive difference in the community.

Responsibilities

• Deliver day to day systems and processes for effective patient safety.
• Support a culture that improves quality through data analysis.

Job description

Overview

Reporting to the Patient Safety Lead, this post forms part of the Patient Safety Team to support the delivery of the Trust’s Quality Strategy and vision to ensure ‘Excellent Care for all’ through the delivery of safe, effective and high quality services, that ensure the people who use our services, their families, carers and visitors receive a positive experience.

Delivering the day to day systems and processes to support effective patient safety across the Trust, providing support and information to staff to deliver trust wide systems and processes. Supporting a culture that improves quality by enabling the delivery of high quality care through the effective identification of lessons/areas for improvement and promotion of learning as a result of data analysis and investigation, using audit and evaluation cycles to seek assurance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the day to day systems and processes to support effective patient safety across the Trust, providing support and information to staff to deliver trust wide systems and processes.
• Support a culture that improves quality by enabling the delivery of high quality care through the effective identification of lessons/areas for improvement and promotion of learning as a result of data analysis and investigation, using audit and evaluation cycles to seek assurance.

About Croydon Health Services

Croydon Health Services provides integrated NHS services to care for people at home, in schools, and health clinics across the borough as well as at Croydon University Hospital and Purley War Memorial Hospital.

CUH provides more than 100 specialist services and is home to the borough’s only Emergency Department and 24/7 maternity services, including a labour ward, midwifery-led birth centre and the Crocus home birthing team.

Purley War Memorial Hospital (PWMH) in the south of the borough offers outpatient care, including diagnostic services, physiotherapy and ophthalmology services run by Moorfields Eye Hospital, alongside an onsite GP surgery.

Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon and our Children’s Hospital at Home cares for children with long-term conditions without them having to come to hospital.

We are a very close-knit and friendly organisation where everyone of our 3600 staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.

Join us and be a part of the team that is making Croydon proud.

***Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in job description and person specification***

This advert closes on Sunday 12 Oct 2025