Patient Safety Lead
| Posting date: | 01 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Location: | Reading, RG1 5NA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9193-25-0542 |
Summary
To build on personal credibility and expert knowledge to constitute and support investigation teams including clinical and subject matter experts, patients, families, and multidisciplinary team members for complex patient safety investigations in line with national guidance. Using specialist knowledge of undertaking complex Patient Safety Investigations, undertake the activities that support investigative procedures including but not limited to: o Reviewing, analysing and interpreting physical and electronic records o Utilising the Safety Engineering in Patient Safety (SEIPS) framework to understand how the design of systems impacts the safety of patients as well as employee and organisational outcomes o Drafting accurate chronologies of events building on physical and electronic records, staff and patient recollections and other sources of information, sometimes having to link chronologies from different incidents and event in order to provide the appropriate context to an investigation o Undertaking safety conversations with staff, patients, carers, families, or their advocates in circumstances that may be contentious or distressing to gain an understanding of what has happened during one or a series of events o Linking with Patient Experience Teams or directly undertaking compassionate engagement with patients and families and as part of this ensuring that the Trust is meeting its obligations with regards to Duty of Candour o Working with clinical and non-clinical teams to ensure recommendations are deliverable and proportionate and to support the development of action plans in response to identified areas of learning o Convening and leading meetings and discussions of the multi-disciplinary investigation panel o Using excellent written skills to draft investigation reports on behalf of the investigating panel o Ensuring that investigations are undertaken in line with their Terms of Reference, agreed timescales and meet relevant internal and national standards, keeping all relevant parties informed of progress and taking the lead in negotiating variations from the agreed process as required.