Patient Safety Investigator | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 29 January 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 February 2026 |
| Location: | Canterbury, CT1 1AZ |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7721045/380-SS0748 |
Summary
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
The Patient Safety team sits within the Corporate Directorate of Nursing and Quality. The team is required to set the strategic direction for patient safety, to deliver on reactive and proactive aspects of patient safety improvement work and to deliver education and training to enable and support front line staff to keep patients and staff safer.
The job purpose for the Patient Safety Improvement Facilitator is to support in the delivery and embedding of a culture of continuous learning and quality improvement within the Trust. They will lead on the day-to-day delivery and development of the key workstreams to ensure service improvements and the key objectives of the patient safety strategy.
The post holder will utilise systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles to address safety incidents to maximise the learning and supporting services to embed the identified safety improvements.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
• Lead and manage multiple transient investigations and reviews and provide high quality, comprehensive, concise, and unbiased reports within the allocated timescales as per NHS Frameworks and regulations using a system-based approach.
• To act with integrity and be professionally responsible and accountable for own caseload and develop investigation plans and use peer review, subject matter experts and multidisciplinary teams to support quality and consistency.
• Engage and collaborate with internal staff involved and with external staff from other agencies, using a wide range of investigative methodologies and approaches.
• Communicate highly complex, sensitive and distressing information effectively to a range of stakeholders including patients, families, carers and staff whilst ensuring compassion, empathy and support are demonstrated throughout.
• Support organisational resilience to react promptly to adverse events (safety-I approach) and promote learning continuously and meaningfully from everyday work (safety-II approach).
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that’s doing well together.
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• Use relevant resources to analyse complex findings e.g. policy, protocol, training records, data reports, etc.
• Ensure the findings and recommendations of the report are discussed and agreed with the responsible senior leadership teams prior to submitting the report for approval.
• Support external investigations as appropriate.
Please refer to the attached job description for the full details on the responsibilities and person specification
We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one.
This advert closes on Thursday 12 Feb 2026
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