PSIRF Implementation Lead | South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | Bicester, Oxford, OX26 6HR |
| Company: | South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6177056/195-24-065-RRM |
Summary
The post holder will work with the Patient Safety Specialist and alongside the Patient Safety Team, Legal Services, Patient Safety Specialist, Risk and Assurance Team, Clinical Effectiveness Team, Communications Team and with senior clinical and operational managers to drive the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) ensuring it is embedded within the trust.
The post holder will work with clinicians and operational managers across the trust, corporate teams, and external stakeholders to successfully deliver the requirements for the framework, tracking and reporting progress following the robust organisational project management methodology via the Senior Project Manager. The PSIRF implementation Lead will lead and support the implementation of the PSIRF alongside the Senior Project Officer. PSIRF supports the three strategic aims of the national Patient Safety Strategy of improving understanding of safety (insight), equipping patient, staff and partners with the skills and opportunities to improve patient safety (involvement) and designing and supporting programmes that deliver effective and sustainable change (improvement). Two key deliverables will be the Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP) and the Patient Safety Incident Policy. The post holder will ensure the strategy is aligned with the national programme and liaise with early adopters of the PSIRF to learn from their experiences and adapt the SCAS plan where required.
• Delivering, implementing, and embedding the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)
• Support patient safety improvement, ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in the PSIRF at SCAS.
• Ensure leadership is central to the delivery of all patient safety activities.
• Ensure local patient safety improvement programmes within the framework are multi-professional.
• Work collaboratively, to provide clinical and/or patient safety expertise to key stakeholders to ensure awareness, understanding and are able to deliver on the Patient Safety Incident Response Plan.
• Work with wider Portfolio’s within the Trust, to problem solve and manage the delivery and implementation of the LFPSE reporting system for the trust.
• Support the planning, delivering and facilitation of events and opportunities for experiential learning for large and small groups of stakeholders.
• Ensure all training is fit for purpose, current, role appropriate and reflective of the needs of the trust.
• Take a lead role in the identification and development of opportunities for training, support, coaching and mentoring staff in improvement to build capacity and capability for improvement organisational-wide.
• Support the management of relevant resources within the allocated pay and non-pay budgets for the PSIRF project alongside the Assistant Director of Quality and the Patient safety Specialist.
Benefits we offer:
• Full training and support when you join and ongoing throughout your employment with us.
• Holiday entitlement is 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus 8 bank holidays (pro rata for part time).
• Enrolment into the NHS Pension Scheme.
• Access to continual professional development and opportunities within SCAS and the NHS.
• Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme.
• NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.
• Staff networking and support groups.
About Us
South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of emergency, urgent care and non-emergency healthcare services, along with commercial logistics services.
The Trust delivers most of these services to the populations of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire and Oxfordshire as well as non-emergency patient transport services in Surrey and Sussex.
We serve a population of over 7 million and answer over 500,000 urgent calls a year. We employ 4,551 staff who, together with over 1,100 volunteers, enable us to operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In SCAS, we know that colleagues who are cared for and valued are enabled to provide the right care, first time, every time. That is why we strive to foster a culture that balances fairness, compassion, learning and accountability; a ‘just and learning culture’.
The post holder will work with the AD of Patient Safety, the Patient Safety Specialist and alongside the Patient Safety Team, Legal Services, Risk and Assurance Team, Clinical Effectiveness Team, Communications Team and with senior clinical and operational managers to drive the new Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) ensuring it is embedded within the trust.
The post holder will work with clinicians and operational managers across the trust, corporate teams, and external stakeholders to successfully deliver the requirements for the framework, tracking and reporting progress following the robust organisational project management methodology via the PSIRF Project Support Manager. The PSIRF implementation Lead will
lead and support the implementation of the PSIRF alongside the Senior Project Officer. PSIRF supports the three strategic aims of the national Patient Safety Strategy of improving understanding of safety (insight), equipping patient, staff and partners with the skills and opportunities to improve patient safety (involvement) and designing and supporting
programmes that deliver effective and sustainable change (improvement). Two key deliverables will be the Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP) and the Patient Safety Incident Policy. The post holder will ensure the strategy is aligned with the national programme and liaise with early adopters of the PSIRF to learn from their experiences and adapt the
SCAS plan where required.
This advert closes on Friday 3 May 2024
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