Patient Safety Advisor

Job overview

Proposed interview date - Friday 16/05

This role will be working closely with the Senior Patient Safety Advisor, Patient Safety Manager, Head of Clinical Governance, and Deputy Chief Medical Officers to identify  and manage incidents and require further discussion in a weekly meeting, to consider learning response options under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). The appointee will also work with colleagues throughout the Trust in managing patient safety, ensuring that systems are in place to support a culture of open reporting and investigation. The appointee will provide support to the Divisional governance teams and Trust managers with any aspects of patient safety as well as assisting in the development and delivery of training programmes. With colleagues, the appointee will review learning response outcomes to ensure systemic issues are identified and appropriate actions planned to prevent a reoccurrence and enable learning to be shared across the Trust. The post-holder will work under the guidance of the Senior Patient Safety Advisor.

If you are offered an interview, there will be 3 parts to the selection process

1 A technical interview

2 A values-based interview

3 A short test 

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Specific Responsibilities part 1

1. Evaluate the impact of the incidents.
2. Co-ordinate and manage the weekly Safety, Learning & Improvement Conversation (SLIC), this will include:
   1. Identifying incidents to be considered for further review
   2. Drafting an agenda to be shared with the SLIC chair
   3. Managing the administration of the SLIC meeting which will include creating the agenda, collating papers, taking minutes, and creating the weekly SLIC learning slide.
3. Attend the Patient Safety Response meetings roughly twice a week and document the outcomes on the clinical incident forms.
4. Maintain the investigation logs.
5. Maintain a close working relationship with Legal Services, Complaints, Tissue Viability, Information Governance, and Safeguarding to ensure effective communication about patient safety incidents and investigations. 
6. Attend a weekly meeting to triangulate with legal cases, safeguarding issues, complaints, and patient feedback. 
7. Maintain links with Health & Safety locally to ensure that relevant aspects are communicated, eg potential Reporting of Incidents, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations cases.
8. Liaise with the Assurance Team, the Integrated Care Board, and NHS England to ensure that any documents they request related to incidents are edited and shared, and response to Freedom of Information requests.
9. Provide evidence and an audit trail for the completion of Duty of Candour.  

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. 

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. 

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.