Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness
Strategically lead and manage the Trust's patient safety and clinical effectiveness team and have overall responsibility for strategy, policy, and service development in relation to the Trust's patient safety and clinical effectiveness agenda across the organisation. Lead the Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness Team in planning and implementing a range of effective service developments and working in close collaboration with care hub managers and clinicians to improve clinical practice. Responsible for the formulation of the Trust's strategic plans for patient safety. Responsible for all patient safety and clinical effectiveness reporting for the Trust. Responsible for ensuring maintenance and monitoring of clinical standards, including the development and implementation of strategies and systems for evidence-based practice, clinical effectiveness, clinical standards, and national performance (clinical) indicators, including NICE guidance.
Responsibilities Provide highly specialist advice, support, and guidance to clinicians in relation to a range of issues including patient safety evidence-based practice and the development of guidelines for specific patient groups maintaining governance standards across the organisation. Co-ordinate special investigations into serious clinical incidents/adverse events. Gain the co-operation of senior clinicians involved in any serious event. Analyse and interpret findings and produce recommendations for changes in practice.
Responsible for the delivery of training across patient safety and clinical effectiveness. Liaise closely with the executive team and the Trust's network directors in the implementation of patient safety, audit, and clinical effectiveness across the organisation. Co-ordinate and strategically manage clinical effectiveness and patient safety. Responsible for strategic planning and development of new reporting and feedback systems and for developing Trust strategy on patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
Safe, Effective, Experience Participate in the Trust Patient Safety Walk round Programme triangulating patient safety data to develop ward profiles and linking with Head of Nursing, Head of Allied Health Professionals, Associate Directors, and Network Director of Operations, Network Directors of Nursing and Quality to highlight patient safety issues in patient areas. Develop and undertake a programme of compliance visits in patient areas across the Trust to support the compliance agenda; escalate any issues identified during compliance visits appropriately. Work with the Trust Heads of Quality to support wards managers, senior nurses, and clinical leads on compliance with any safety or quality programme as required, e.g., AIMS, etc. Work in collaboration with other internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and best practices approaches to compliance initiatives. Undertake regular horizon scanning to keep up to date with governance initiatives and forthcoming policy developments.
Patient Safety To develop the patient safety strategy and agenda. Provision of expert advice to the executive team and Trust Board on ensuring the timely review of the Patient Safety Strategy. Compile and monitor implementation of an annual work plan for risk. Ensure learning from incident reporting and risk assessments is incorporated into an interactive process to ensure learning is assimilated across the Trust. Develop structured training programmes and briefings for promoting the importance of clinical/non-clinical risk and incident management and the application of associated tools to all levels of the organisation. Ensure that compliance and assurance information is utilised as assurance for identified risks; ensure that compliance visits and support is risk-based.
Leadership/Management Provide leadership and direction to Networks in the monitoring, management, and maintenance of local judgement frameworks to support evidence of local compliance. Provide leadership and direction to direct line reports. Manage sickness, absence, and leave in accordance with Trust policy. Complete appraisals and staff PDR aligning service objectives to the role, responsibility, and strategic direction of the Trust. Responsible for direct management and recruitment and retention of: Audit & Effectiveness Team, Patient Safety Team.
Provide leadership and expert technical support to the clinical governance team and to other senior managers and clinicians across the Trust in relation to clinical governance, clinical risk and effectiveness, and patient and public involvement.
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Responsibilities Provide highly specialist advice, support, and guidance to clinicians in relation to a range of issues including patient safety evidence-based practice and the development of guidelines for specific patient groups maintaining governance standards across the organisation. Co-ordinate special investigations into serious clinical incidents/adverse events. Gain the co-operation of senior clinicians involved in any serious event. Analyse and interpret findings and produce recommendations for changes in practice.
Responsible for the delivery of training across patient safety and clinical effectiveness. Liaise closely with the executive team and the Trust's network directors in the implementation of patient safety, audit, and clinical effectiveness across the organisation. Co-ordinate and strategically manage clinical effectiveness and patient safety. Responsible for strategic planning and development of new reporting and feedback systems and for developing Trust strategy on patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
Safe, Effective, Experience Participate in the Trust Patient Safety Walk round Programme triangulating patient safety data to develop ward profiles and linking with Head of Nursing, Head of Allied Health Professionals, Associate Directors, and Network Director of Operations, Network Directors of Nursing and Quality to highlight patient safety issues in patient areas. Develop and undertake a programme of compliance visits in patient areas across the Trust to support the compliance agenda; escalate any issues identified during compliance visits appropriately. Work with the Trust Heads of Quality to support wards managers, senior nurses, and clinical leads on compliance with any safety or quality programme as required, e.g., AIMS, etc. Work in collaboration with other internal and external stakeholders to ensure consistency and best practices approaches to compliance initiatives. Undertake regular horizon scanning to keep up to date with governance initiatives and forthcoming policy developments.
Patient Safety To develop the patient safety strategy and agenda. Provision of expert advice to the executive team and Trust Board on ensuring the timely review of the Patient Safety Strategy. Compile and monitor implementation of an annual work plan for risk. Ensure learning from incident reporting and risk assessments is incorporated into an interactive process to ensure learning is assimilated across the Trust. Develop structured training programmes and briefings for promoting the importance of clinical/non-clinical risk and incident management and the application of associated tools to all levels of the organisation. Ensure that compliance and assurance information is utilised as assurance for identified risks; ensure that compliance visits and support is risk-based.
Leadership/Management Provide leadership and direction to Networks in the monitoring, management, and maintenance of local judgement frameworks to support evidence of local compliance. Provide leadership and direction to direct line reports. Manage sickness, absence, and leave in accordance with Trust policy. Complete appraisals and staff PDR aligning service objectives to the role, responsibility, and strategic direction of the Trust. Responsible for direct management and recruitment and retention of: Audit & Effectiveness Team, Patient Safety Team.
Provide leadership and expert technical support to the clinical governance team and to other senior managers and clinicians across the Trust in relation to clinical governance, clinical risk and effectiveness, and patient and public involvement.
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