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PSIRF Investigator/Reviewer | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Job details
Posting date: 24 May 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 23 June 2024
Location: Nottingham, NG3 6AA
Company: Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6331755/186-646-24-CS

Summary


We have an exciting opportunity for someone with the right experience to join the expanding Notts HC Patient Safety Team. Whose role is in improving and embedding a safety culture in the journey of an improving organisation who are focused on providing the best care. The job purpose for the Patient Safety Investigator /Reviewer is to facilitate and complete a range of learning responses to patient safety incidents and undertake Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSII) within the Mental Health, Forensic and Community Health Services Care Group. Integral to the post is working directly with families / carers and service users.

The Patient Safety Incident Investigator/Reviewer will undertake robust patient safety incident investigations by working with a range of internal and external stakeholders to investigate, analyse and use credible evidence-based intelligence to agree and present findings using the agreed methods within the Trust’s PSIRP. The outcome will be the identification of systems learning from a patient safety incident that will guide sustainable clinical risk reduction and quality improvement of services, ensuring that a restorative, just and learning culture and human factors principles are maintained

Facilitate and complete a range of learning responses to patient safety incidents within all Care Groups.

The post holder will take responsibility for complex patient safety incident investigations and obtaining assurance that organisational learning has been developed and shared where appropriate. The investigations will predominately work across the Mental Health Care Group to identify, embed learning and improving patient safety.

Working as part of the Patient Safety Team, lead PSIIs and co-ordinate and contribute to other high level investigations (e.g. Independent Homicide Reviews) using a systems based approach incorporating human factors analysis and writing reports.

The post holder will take responsibility for identified learning responses and actions to patient safety incidents. Generating investigation findings and recommendations which improve patient safety.

Work to the NHSE Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) standards Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP), recognising local and national priorities.

Use a systems based approach when undertaking reviews and investigations of patient safety incidents.

To enhance and promote quality improvement of services provided through evidence based practice, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to support this whilst incorporating best practice and national service guidelines.

Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.

As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.

Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.

We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.

If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

#TeamNottsHC

Work to the NHSE Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) standards Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP), recognising local and national priorities.

Use a systems based approach when undertaking reviews and investigations of patient safety incidents.

To enhance and promote quality improvement of services provided through evidence based practice, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to support this whilst incorporating best practice and national service guidelines.

Understand the complexities of mental health practice and services.

Produce reports that patients, families, carers and staff value, trust and respect.

Signpost those who need further support post incident appropriately including families, carers, significant others and staff.

Escalate any emerging and urgent clinical risk patient safety issues appropriately.

Liaising with professional leads to ensure specialist advice and knowledge is sought during the process of investigation. Lead on communication with carers and significant others throughout the serious incident investigation process.

Facilitate feedback of completed investigation reports and associated learning to operational and clinical leads and associated clinical teams. The post holder will be required to proactively engage with staff at all levels and disciplines, across a full range of media, both within and external to the Trust in order to undertake this role effectively.

Adhere to strict confidentiality and has the ability to prioritise and work on own initiative


This advert closes on Thursday 6 Jun 2024

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