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Patient Safety Manager

Job Description

Finegreen are currently supporting an NHS organisation in the recruitment of a Patient Safety Manager. The post will be working on an interim basis for 3 – 6 months and can be conducted remotely.

The hourly rate will be: £34.65, working inside IR35 (through an umbrella solution).

The post holder will provide professional support, guidance and advice to all related Patient Safety Matters.

Key responsibilities will include:

  • Providing line management, support and guidance for the Patient Safety Advisors, working in a small team;

  • Ensure robust systems are in place to monitor and to support individual services in ensuring audit compliance and to embed service improvements identified through the audit process;

  • Ensure services are providing clinical services in line with national policies and CQC regulation;

  • Daily review of incidents and complaints for a number of specified services;

  • Produce regular reports from and respond to queries;

  • Analyse report data, highlight areas of concern and propose potential courses of action;

  • Analyse incident and complaint feedback and develop and deliver mechanisms to share best practice and learning;

  • Ensure robust frameworks, systems and processes are in place to support the management of patient safety across the organisation, including the sharing of lessons and learning from serious incident investigations;

  • Liaise with external stakeholders regarding all aspects of serious incidents.

The ideal candidate will have:

  • Must have senior management experience working within the NHS;

  • In-depth specialist knowledge of the national agenda for patient safety;

  • Knowledge of clinical systems for data capture of incident reporting systems;

  • Great communication skills, able to write and present reports.

If you are interested in the role, please contact Ria Healy on 0161 241 9672 and send a copy of your updated CV to ria.healy@finegreen.co.uk along with your availability and rate.