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Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

About

Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT) was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT).

Since then, EPUT has grown from strength to strength, providing many community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Luton and Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk.

We are a large employer in the East of England with more than 5,500 staff working across more than 200 sites. We also provide services in people’s home and community settings.

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

We Care
We Learn
We Empower

Our strategic objectives

We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
We will help our communities to thrive.

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory

Contact

Address: Trust Head Office; The Lodge; The Chase; Wickford; Essex; SS11 7XX
Contact Number: 01375 364513

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Jobs Website

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Ref: 364-A-7637-A Vacancy ID: 6403935

Patient Safety Lead

Closed for applications on: 25-Jun-2024 00:00

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 25-Jun-2024 00:00

Location

Site: The Lodge
Address: Runwell Chase
Town: Wickford
Postcode: SS11 7XX
Major / Minor Region: Essex

Contract type & working pattern

Contract

Fixed term: 11 months (Fixed until 30th April 2025)

Hours

Full time
Flexible working

37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Patient Safety

About Us

EPUT provides community health, mental health and learning disability services to support more than 3.2 million people living across Bedfordshire, Essex and Suffolk. Also:

We are among the largest employers in the in the East of England region, with more than 10,000 staff working across more than 200 sites.
We run the COVID-19 vaccination programme across mid and south Essex and Suffolk and north east Essex.

EPUT was formed on 1 April 2017 following the merger of North Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (NEP) and South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (SEPT). A new leadership team was established at the Trust in 2020.

Our vision and values

Our Vision

“To be the leading health and wellbeing service in the provision of mental health and community care”.

Our Purpose

“We care for people every day. What we do together, matters”.

Our Values

We Care
We Learn
We Empower

Our strategic objectives

We will deliver safe, high quality integrated care services.
We will enable each other to be the best that we can.
We will work together with our partners to make our services better.
We will help our communities to thrive.

Our services

Mental Health Services
Community Health Services
Learning Disabilities Services
Social Care

Find out more about the services we offer in our service directory.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Undertake patient safety incident reviews using a variety of different methods, including After Action Reviews (AAR), SWARM Huddle, Multidisciplinary Team Review (MDTR) and Patient safety Incident Investigation (PSII).
Work with the Patient Safety Incident Management Team and PSIRF Oversight Group (PSOG) to identify learning and changes in practice that need to occur to prevent or reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence of similar incidents or improve the overall safety and quality of care provided.
The post holder will produce excellent reports that identify learning from incidents and how learning will be embedded.
Apply the principles and practice of a just and learning culture across a diverse range of clinical services and recognise when specialist expert opinion is required.
The post holder will feedback the learning identified through their reviews to PSI Clinical Review Group to progress learning outcomes.
Establish links to all operational services to ensure that each service engages with patient safety incident reviews.
To act as a role model and expert advisor for other staff involved in the reviews, ensuring that all reviews are carried out to the highest possible standards.
Contribute to the development and improvement of a systems learning approach and cultural changes associated with the introduction of the patient safety incident response framework and lead on allocated improvement and innovation projects.
Work with the Head of Patient Safety Incident Management in maintaining efficient systems and processes to ensure good governance and enable the effective and accurate collection, collation and reporting of routine data and information, producing statistics and reports when required.
Draw up clear guidelines for patient safety incident learning response leads, highlighting expectations in terms of formulating communication plans with families, collaborating with Family Liaison Officers, recording information and attending meetings as part of the patient safety incident response process.
To develop and deliver patient safety review training sessions to ensure high quality and consistency in skill sets of staff undertaking this role.
Work closely with the Family Liaison Officers to ensure patients/families/carers are fully involved in the patient safety response process.
Present information, unwelcome and sometimes distressing information to a range of internal and external stakeholders including patient, service users and their families, victims and their families, senior clinicians and front line professionals.
Attend Coroners courts when required as a representative of the Trust
Attend PSIRF Oversight Group Review panels to present a learning response review report or as part of own development as required.
Critically evaluate and analyse information, diverse and sometimes contradictory evidence from a wide range of sources.
The post holder will have responsibility for a named care unit and work collaboratively with the senior leadership team providing guidance, support and advice as needed. They will meet with the care unit leadership at least once a month to review all incident cases related to the care unit and provide a summary report of activities to guide discussion at the meeting.
To have responsibility for supervising the patient safety incident team administrator or business support administrator
Responsible for horizon scanning and developing external networks in order to stay updated
To support the Deputy Head of Patient Safety Incident Team in writing the terms of reference and key questions for a review when required

Please note - staff who are formally at risk within the organisation will be given priority in securing alternative employment. Should it come to light that a post being advertised by the Trust is considered ‘suitable alternative employment’ to an individual who is at risk, the recruiting manager will be advised and the post will be withdrawn from NHS Jobs.

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Important Professional References

Make sure that as a part of your application you have professional references with business contract information covering your last three year employment history. We are unable to accept personal or character references.

As a newly appointed employee you are responsible for incurring the cost of your initial DBS check relevant to your post, the amount will be deducted from your first salary with the Trust.

Applications for Job Share are positively welcomed.

Equal Opportunities Employer

Our Trust is an Equal Opportunities Employer. We particularly welcome applications from people with experience of using mental health services. We also hold the Disability two tick symbol and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with learning disabilities, we encourage people with a disability to apply. If you require this application form in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape etc, please contact the Recruitment Department on 01375 364513 or email [email protected] and we can arrange for this to be dispatched to you.

The Trust has the right to expire vacancies prior to the closing date if they so wish. The Trust makes every attempt to contact all applicants and we strongly advise that you check the email account which is registered with NHS Jobs regularly, we would advise however due to the high number of applications we receive that if you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults, and expect all staff to undertake this commitment. Applicants will be subject to robust safer recruitment processes.

Covid Vaccination

Although Covid vaccinations are no longer a mandatory requirement within the NHS we continue to encourage and support the vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against Covid19. The safety of our staff and patients is a top priority for us at EPUT.

If you would like to book a Covid vaccination or would like more information please contact us by emailing [email protected].

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

Clinical qualification
Evidence of post registration studying and continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

Educated to degree level in a health related subject

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge and understanding of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
Knowledge and understanding of Duty of Candour and Being Open.
Knowledge of incident reporting systems.
Knowledge of confidentiality and GDP regulations.
Able to investigate and analyse incidents
Able to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information.
Excellent communication skills – written, verbal and presentational.
Empathy, ability to deal with distressed and highly sensitive patients/relatives relationships.
Excellent organisational skills demonstrating the ability to prioritise and manage a number of conflicting requirements and complex issues in a professional manner.
Excellent report writing.
Ability to challenge conflicting views at any level within the organisation.
Ability to understand and analyse complex data.

Desirable criteria

Use of human factors methodologies.
Knowledge of systems based learning.

Skills / Experience

Essential criteria

Literate in IT/Computer Skills.
Good oral and written communication skills based on fluency on the English language.

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

Shares the Trust’s Beliefs and models this in their attitude and behaviour
Ensures that the organisational values of open, compassionate and empowering are demonstrated by self and others every day and that any matters of concern are addressed in a timely way, either directly; or raised with the relevant Line Manager; or through the relevant processes within the Trust as appropriate.
Resilience and coping mechanism for delivery with high turnaround of work activities