Head of Patient Safety Advice & Guidance

Posting date:	12 September 2025
Salary:	£91,342.00 to £105,337.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£91342.00 - £105337.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	28 September 2025
Location:	Nationally, SE1 8UG
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	M9990-25-0435

Summary

Essential criteria includes: Experience of working in either a patient safety or senior leadership role within healthcare. Effective stakeholder management at all levels, maintaining relationships with key and high-profile stakeholders, such as key strategic regional and national policy makers. Experience of working with information, interpreting, presenting and publishing potentially challenging information that will lead to improved patient safety. Significant experience of leading, managing and motivating teams of multi-skilled people to deliver corporate business objectives and through periods of change. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to work with and through others. Excellent communication skills, verbal and written including report writing. Skills and experience we are looking for include: Excellent communication skills and ability to provide complex informationto a wide range of internal and external stakeholders. Ability to build and nurture key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally, on a local, regional and national level. There will be occasional travel across England with the need for overnight stays (where relevant), some of which maybe consecutive. Hybrid working is supported for this role. You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents. Secondments Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.