Patient Safety Learning and Response Lead (Training and Development)
Accepting applications until: 22-Jun-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 22-Jun-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Oxford Road Campus
- Town
- Manchester
- Postcode
- M13 9WL
- Major / Minor Region
- Manchester
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8b)
Specialty
- Main area
- Patient Safety
Job overview
The Patient Safety Learning Response Lead (Training and Development) is a central role in the Trust’s implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), and supports multiple elements of our safety management system, including supporting the development, management and implementation of strategic a patient safety training programme across the Trust and directly supporting and where appropriate leading initiatives to enable staff involvement in patient safety.
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As part of the Learning Response Lead team, the role will be responsible for leading and coordinating all Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PISIIs) across the Trust in line with the expectations of PSIRF, engaging with a range stakeholders to identify opportunities for learning using recognised tools encompassing principles of human factors and ergonomics, systems engineering, psychology, and investigation best practice as required. A high level of sensitive and compassionate engagement with patients, families, staff, and others affected by incidents is expected of this role.
A key responsibility will be to lead on the design and implementation of a Patient Safety Academy within MFT that provides a sustainable, future proof model for delivery for training for patient safety techniques across the Trust
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Educated to Masters level OR equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in relevant specialist area (e.g., healthcare, patient safety, human factors, incident investigation, industrial safety management)
- • Clinical background or evidence of a substantial understanding of safety management and healthcare/ clinical issues
- • Have completed the national Patient Safety Syllabus levels 1&2
- • Completion of relevant patient safety incident investigation training (e.g. Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch Level 2/3 patient safety investigation training or equivalent).
- • Recent training on systems approaches to learning from patient safety incidents
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of undertaking or have completed level 3 and/or 4 of the national Patient Safety Syllabus
- • Registered member of Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF)
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Extensive experience of working within an NHS or similar health care organisation patient safety or safety management/ improvement environment
- • Experience of completion of effective safety investigations that meet the patient safety incident response standards set out in the national Patient Safety Incident Response Framework for England
- • Experience of using human factors and systems-based approaches to understanding and analysing patient safety improvement opportunities
- • Experience of designing, delivering and evaluating Human Factors training.
- • Experience in engaging compassionately and effectively with those affected by safety incidents and supporting a just and restorative incident response.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of work in complex environments and a human factors/ergonomics approach to safety and improvement.
- • Ability to effectively analyse, interpret and synthesise complex information, distilling key messages and themes and presenting issues and options to senior audiences.
- • Excellent written communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information to a wide range on audiences
- • Ability to form robust conclusions in line with the expectations of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework that can be used to support and drive improvement
Desirable criteria
- • Demonstrable understanding of the NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks under which NHS Trusts operate.
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Beverley Fearnley
- Job title
- Director of Clinical Governance
- Email address
- [email protected]
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