Job summary
- Main area
- Admin
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 208-47EB1E-25-2
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- Scunthorpe
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Patient Safety Facilitator
Band 5
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone who is highly organised with excellent communication skills to join the Patient Safety team as a Patient Safety Facilitator.
Main duties of the job
As part of a central team, the post holder will support the quality governance agenda and play a key role in promoting patient safety and quality, working closely with care group clinical leads, nursing leads and senior management.
The post holder will have a range of responsibilities in relation to patient safety/risk and will support in the development of an organisational learning culture within the Trust through the management of all aspects of patient safety including review of incidents, and facilitation of learning responses in line with the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF).
To work effectively and flexibly under the direction of the Head of Risk and the Risk and Patient Safety Manager to ensure high standards of performance are maintained.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at
https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
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Person specification
• Relevant degree or equivalent demonstrable occupational experience
Essential criteria
- • Relevant degree or equivalent demonstrable occupational experience
Desirable criteria
- Business or professional qualification
Occupational experience and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Experience of facilitating change.
- • Experience of multi-disciplinary working.
Knowledge& Skills
Essential criteria
- Good IT skills and knowledge of key systems including CAMIS, WebV and Risk Management system.
- Excellent liaison/ communication and inter-personal skills.
Desirable criteria
- Report writing
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chelsea Lister
- Job title
- Patient Safety Coordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033 305563
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