Patient Safety Specialist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 15 Rhagfyr 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £64,156 - £71,148 inc HCA |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 14 Ionawr 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SE1 4YB |
| Cwmni: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7671818/196-COF10997-T |
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Are you passionate about patient safety and keen to make a meaningful difference for patients and staff? If so, this could be the role for you. We are offering an exciting opportunity to join the Trust Patient Safety Team as aPatient Safety Specialist (Band 8a AfC)within the Quality and Assurance Directorate. The team comprises eight members dedicated to improving patient safety and delivering the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). Working collaboratively with Quality and Assurance teams and corporate services, the team triangulates data to identify safety themes and drive improvements. The post holder will lead Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSIIs), embed learning across the organisation, and build networks to share best practice. We are seeking candidates with strong expertise in patient safety, investigation methodologies, and quality improvement, who can work both independently and as part of a dynamic team to influence change and enhance care.
The Patient Safety Specialist will work with the Trust Senior Patient Safety Lead and clinical leaders to ensure patient safety remains a top priority and that national safety standards are met. They will support the development and delivery of the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP) and Framework (PSIRF), with a focus on quality improvement. The post holder will lead Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSIIs), provide expert advice on safety and quality, and promote a culture of openness and learning. They will oversee governance processes related to incident management, including trend analysis, shared learning, and Duty of Candour compliance. This cross-site role requires strong leadership, collaboration, and communication skills to influence change and embed best practice. The successful candidate will be a trusted team player, able to engage colleagues at all levels and drive improvements in patient care through evidence-based learning and assurance.
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is part of King's Health Partners, an academic health sciences centre, and pioneers in health research, and providing high quality teaching and education. This partnership helps provide the latest treatments alongside the best possible care.
The Quality and Assurance Directorate consists of 4 teams - Resolution (formerly known as Complaints) Team, Legal Team, Risk and Assurance Team and the Quality Improvement Patient Safety (QIPS) Team. The teams work closely together to provide the necessary support, guidance and training to the Clinical Groups (and their Directorates) to promote excellent clinical leadership in all areas of the hospital, which contributes to a positive patient experience and promotes the Trust's values.
We are jointly committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.
Job Description:
Patient Safety and Clinical Governance
· Provide specialised expert advice and leadership on patient safety, incident investigation, systems-thinking, quality improvement, and matters relating to a wide range of quality assurance topics.
· Support and contribute to the development and implementation of the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response (PSIRP) and Framework (PSIRF) to be used for responding to patient safety events and identification of areas for improvement.
· Support and contribute to the development and implementation of a patient safety response plan for each Clinical Group and core service (cutting across all Clinical Groups) to appropriate respond to patient safety events within the Trust’s overall quality framework.
· Lead on specific Trust-wide patient safety incident investigations or high level serious incidents as required, with in-depth systems thinking investigations aligned to the trust patient safety incident response plan.
· Identify patient safety concerns and themes from different patient safety data sources (such as incidents).
· Lead on independent internal reviews of services in relation to patient safety and quality.
· Provide expertise in planning quality improvement projects, using appropriate service improvement techniques to support departments in the identification of opportunities for improvement and the elimination of waste/non-value.
· Ensure regular analysis and review of trust incident data to actively seek areas for improvement.
· Monitor achievement of key patient safety quality indicators, prospectively highlight areas of potential concern for clinical service and/or Trust compliance.
· Advise and assist clinical services and corporate departments in the development of improvement methodologies to improve patient safety.
· Identify learning opportunities that will arise from all aspects of quality and assurance.
· Make recommendations, provide expert advice, prepare and present reports/briefings for safety as required.
· Provide, receive and present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information in clear and readable format on a range of patient safety matters.
· Use and apply motivational and negotiating skills to encourage collaborative working to improve services performance where there may be resistance to change.
Patient Safety Training, Analysis and Information Resources
· Provide, receive and analyse highly complex, technical, sensitive and contentious information (including statistical data) and translate as required to ensure comprehensive understanding across the Trust.
· Support the Clinical Group Patient Safety teams to develop and deliver clinical governance programmes to maintain and improve the quality of patient care through quality improvement projects.
· Support the development and implementation of the long-term strategic plan for patient safety training and education, ensuring the right staff receive appropriate training on patient safety in-line with the national patient safety syllabus and partner organisations.
· Support the development and delivery of training and formal teaching on patient safety, investigations, after action reviews, quality improvement and human factors and ergonomics (system-thinking) for the Trust and wider clinical governance teams.
· Support the maintenance of the Trust’s patient safety ‘Best Practice’ webpages and clinical resources database, ensuring best practices is shared across the Trust.
· Attend and support the Trust Risk and Assurance Committee and other senior Trust-wide sub-committees and working groups as appropriate, ensuring effective dissemination and co-ordination of patient safety information and assurance from these groups.
· Prepare and present regular progress reports on quality improvement, patient safety and best practice as required.
· Communicate pro-actively with Trust staff, including clinical staff, patient safety, risk management, directorate management teams and Clinical Groups.
· Provide and receive complex and/or sensitive information orally, electronically, in writing in a range of formats and manage effective communication at all levels of seniority.
People and Project Management
· Line manage the Patient Safety Managers, Patient Safety Officer and Patient Safety Co-ordinator within the Quality and Assurance Directorate, to support, motivate and develop staff within the department and more widely in terms of quality assurance Trust-wide.
· Deputise for the Trust Senior Patient Safety Lead as required.
· Ensure that staff are trained, supervised and appraised appropriately to equip them to carry out their work effectively and efficiently.
· Build and develop key relationships and consult and maintain networks internally and externally.
· Support the delivery of a range of initiatives and projects arising directly and indirectly from the department’s field of expertise, mainly Trust-wide and via co-ordination and co-operation with clinical directors, clinical leads, the patient safety team.
· Support and contribute to the research and development of the Trust patient safety strategy.
· Support and give professional advice on policies adopted by the Trust in its delivery of healthcare activities and its compliance with the Health & Social Care Act, CQC and other, relevant national bodies in relation to patient safety and quality.
· Support policy/service development by maintaining a comprehensive knowledge of emerging policies from government departments and other external bodies which may have an impact on healthcare services.
· Plan and implement new ways of working and facilitate collaborative working within the Clinical Groups and across the Trust.
· Named budget holder and financial approver for the patient safety specialist team, including the approval and oversight of financial spend in relation to externally commissioned patient safety investigations within the agreed budget.
As a specialist, responsibility and freedom to take action based on own interpretation of the clinical or professional policies that apply in area of specialism, advising Clinical Groups and Trust on how these should be interpreted and delivered.
This advert closes on Sunday 11 Jan 2026