Senior Patient Safety Lead; Patient Safety Specialist

NHS; Reading; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in Reading seeks a Band 8A Senior Patient Safety Lead. The role involves promoting a safety culture across maternity, gynaecology, neonatal, and paediatric services. The ideal candidate should be an NMC registered midwife/nurse with significant governance and leadership experience. This permanent position includes responsibilities for overseeing patient safety incidents and working collaboratively with the management team, adhering to best practice guidance.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in midwifery.
• Must be a registered Nurse or Midwife.
• Experience with PSIRF and governance.

Responsibilities

• Ensure effective governance across maternity and paediatrics.
• Lead the Patient Safety Team under PSIRF guidelines.
• Coordinate investigations with Maternity & Neonatal safety teams.
• Attend Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity Meetings.

Skills

Leadership experience

Organisational change experience

Significant governance experience

Patient safety training

Education

NMC registered Nurse or Midwife

Masters degree

Tools

Human Factors training

Risk management

Job description

Job summary

Band 8A Senior Patient Safety Lead; Patient Safety Specialist

This is a permanent post, but a secondment or job share will also be considered.

Promote a safety and quality culture across the Maternity, Gynaecology, Neonatal and Paediatric services, taking a lead in supporting local investigations and responses to incidents in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.

Responsible for leading the Maternity, Gynaecology, Neonatal and Paediatrics patient safety agenda and ensuring a unified approach to the review of patient safety incidents across the service, in line with the Trust Policies & Procedures and best practice guidance.

Responsibilities

• The post holder is responsible for ensuring effective governance and risk systems are in place across maternity, gynaecology, neonates and paediatrics. Working closely and collaboratively with the Women and Children's (Maternity, Gynaecology, Neonatal and Paediatrics) services management team to ensure effective communication systems are in place and to ensure excellent standards of care and compliance with national and local standard.
• Lead the Patient Safety Team to work within the requirements of patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF) within Women & Children’s services working alongside the Trust Patient Safety Team.
• Act as single point of contact with Maternity & Neonatal Safety Investigations (MNSI). Coordinate the uploading of documentation and the setting up of investigation interviews.
• Participate as a member of the Perinatal Mortality Reporting Tool Group to review all fetal losses and neonatal deaths. Attend the Perinatal Mortality and Morbidity Meetings.
• Liaise with Professional Midwifery Advocates (PMA) to make sure that all midwifery staff involved in clinical incidents and investigations are supported.

Person Specification

Essential:

• NMC registered Nurse or Midwife, significant experience in midwifery
• Leadership experience
• Organisational change experience
• Significant governance experience
• PSIRF, Patient safety training and governance

Desirable:

• Registered midwife
• Human Factors training
• Masters degree
• Risk management

Job details

• Band: 8A
• Salary: £55,690 to £62,682 per annum
• Contract: Permanent
• Working pattern: Full-time, Job share
• Reference number: 193-7678115COR
• Date posted: 17 December 2025

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Berkshire Hospital, Craven road, Reading, RG1 5AN

Employer’s website

https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/

Contact information

If you need additional help with your application please get in touch by calling the recruitment team on 0118 322 6997 or 0118 322 5342.

Our primary method of communication will be via email. However, if you would prefer to be contacted through a different method, please inform the recruitment team.