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Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness | Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	06 Ionawr 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£74,290 - £85,601 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	05 Chwefror 2025
Lleoliad:	Ashton-U-Lyne, OL6 7SR
Cwmni:	Pennine Care NHS FT
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	6910608/311-H738-24-A

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We are looking to recruit a Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness.

We welcome applications from colleagues working at Band 8 or above. If you would like an informal conversation about the position, please contactsara.barr-frost@nhs.net

This is a central role and input will be into corporate and clinical teams across the Trust.

The teams in this portfolio includes Patient Safety, Serious Incident Investigators, Clinical Effectiveness, Resuscitation and Prevention and Management of Violence and Aggression teams.

Organisation-wide post, the post holder will work very closely with all clinical and non-clinical staff across the organisation in order to:
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• Develop, implement and sustain the Trust’s clinical governance and quality programmes.
• Co-ordinate and strategically lead the Trust’s patient safety, clinical
effectiveness and audit department and have overall responsibility for
ensuring the development, planning and implementation of these aspects of the Trust’s clinical and quality governance programme.
• Lead the patient safety and clinical effectiveness teams in planning and
implementing a range of effective service developments and working in close collaboration with Network Directors, nurses and clinicians to improve patient care/safety and enhance clinical practice.
• Work in close collaboration with the Clinical and Governance Team and
Network Triumvirates.
• To provide responses in partnership with the networks for all requests for information or submissions to NHSI, CQC, HSE and NHSLA.
• To develop and devise the Patient Safety and any associated policies across the organisation by leading a programme which recognises, reports, analyses, evaluates and minimises risk throughout the organisation.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We are really proud of our PennineCare Peopleand do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.



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, 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.
• 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 of 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 to
changes in practice.
• Responsible for the delivery of training across on 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-ordination and strategic management
• Co-ordinate and strategically manage the 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 eg 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 the
• To ensure the timely review of the Patient Safety Strategy.
• To 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.


This advert closes on Monday 20 Jan 2025