Patient Safety Specialist
| Posting date: | 02 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2025 |
| Location: | Bradford, BD9 6RJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9389-25-0403 |
Summary
The post holder will be the lead patient safety expert in the organisation, working fulltime on patient safety. They will provide dynamic, compassionate and collaborative senior leadership, visibility and expert support to the patient safety work in the organisation. They will support the development of the patient safety culture and safety systems and work in networks to share good practice and learn from each other. The post holder will lead and directly support patient safety improvement activity and ensure that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in all patient safety processes. They will promote patient safety thinking beyond why things go wrong in healthcare (Safety I), to examining why things routinely go right and how that can be maximised (Safety II). They will support the organisations patient safety partners (patient and public representatives specifically involved in patient safety) as identified in the NHS Patient Safety Strategy. The post holder will work as part of a wider team to ensure that patient safety is appropriately prioritised and considered in the work of the organisation. The post holder will support an aligned approach to the improvement of safety by working closely with the trusts Medicines Safety Officer (MSO), Medical device safety officer (MDSO), Central Alerting System (CAS )lead, Controlled drugs accountable officer (CDAO), Revalidation Officer (RO), Medical Examiner (ME), Learning from deaths lead, safeguarding leads, Maternity safety champion and GIRFT lead. They will build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders on issues relating to patient safety. Including Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch, patient safety collaboratives and Academic Health Science Networks, Health Education England, Care Quality Commission and relevant parts of profession regulators such as the Nursing and Midwifery Council.