Patient Safety Improvement Lead

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Full time
Site: University College London Hospital

Town: London

Salary: £61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAS

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

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Job overview An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Patient Safety Improvement Team at University College London Hospitals for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, critical thinker, and experienced improvement leader to join us as Patient Safety Improvement Lead.

This role is pivotal in providing support to deliver the safety improvement projects from patient safety priorities and emerging patient safety themes in line with the implementation of the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF). You will have proven change management, quality improvement, and project management experience as well as understanding and appreciation of the various clinical patient safety issues to drive the safety improvement agenda and be successful in the role. You will be required to work in close partnership with leaders across the Trust and with external stakeholders to continue our improvement journey.

Main duties of the job

Project management - Establish a clear project management infrastructure for the patient safety improvement projects, identified in the patient safety incident response plan, in line with recognised project management methodology.

Quality improvement - Take responsibility for facilitating quality improvement and support the introduction of quality improvement methodology including being able to adapt QI tools to different safety improvement work streams. Provide corporate leadership, lead the monthly progress report and learning on specific safety improvement projects.

Information and data - Lead and coordinate data management and analysis as well as the establishment of a robust system for monitoring, reporting, predicting performance, identifying key risk areas, and agreeing an improvement plan with the relevant teams to support actions from patient safety incident investigations and inform the safety improvement plan.

Safety Culture - Investigate patient safety incident investigations (PSIIs) as appropriate and provide training and coaching for the development of patient safety improvement projects.

Communication - Lead on communication activities, support effective working relationships and disseminate organisational learning internally and externally to build awareness and capability across the healthcare sector.

Working for our organisation University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

Person specification Knowledge and Qualifications

Graduate or equivalent

Higher professional or management degree or equivalent (or in exceptional circumstances – able to demonstrate significant level of equivalent experience)

Clinical background

Experience

Project management experience, with a track record of delivery

Quality improvement experience

Experience of leading and supervising a team

Experience of management within the NHS

Experience of Epic (EHRS)

Experience of PowerBI or other data analysis tool

Skills and abilities

Clear evidence of leadership potential, and the ability to inspire and motivate a team.

At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work.

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. You are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Please note that all correspondence regarding your application will be via email. The emails will be sent to you via TRAC.jobs and not via NHS Jobs, we encourage you to check your inbox regularly.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 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.

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