Job overview

As Deputy Head of Patient Safety, you will support the Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness to lead the Patient Safety team and Patient Safety processes within the Trust. Working within the Corporate directorate of the Patient Safety team, you will help save and improve lives as you lead on patient safety throughout Pennine Care NHS Trust including the development of strategy, structure and continuous improvement through a learning framework and implementation and embedment of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

You will be critical to driving transformation and improvements in patient safety to ensure that Pennine Care continues to deliver on its core values of Kindness, Fairness, Ingenuity and Determination.

Main duties of the job

 Main Duties & Responsibilities

·       Responsible for co-ordination of key Organisation wide PSIRF priorities

·       Responsible for triangulation and analysis of a wide variety of patient safety data

·       Deputise for the Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness in decision making forums relevant to Patient Safety.

·       Responsible for line management of the Patient Safety Investigator, Patient Safety Assurance Lead and Suicide Prevention Lead and support their development.

·       Provide Patient Safety advice and support for Network level learning response leads

·       Oversee the progression of the Patient Safety Incident Response Plan and Policy

·       Oversee the progression of LFPSE into Ulysses and the Patient Safety Improvement Programme

·       Responsibility to acknowledge and escalate any risks identified from Patient Safety oversight

·       Responsibility to support the Head of Patient Safety and Clinical Effectiveness to ensure that there is local and organisational learning following all types of incidents, complaints and claims, actively disseminating lessons learned through the Trust.

·       Responsible for co-ordination of key Organisation wide PSIRF priorities

Working for our organisation

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We’re really proud of our #PennineCarePeople and do everything we can to make sure we’re a great place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

If you come and work for us we will offer a range of benefits and opportunities, including:

• Generous annual leave entitlement for Agenda for Change and Medical and Dental staff.
• Flexible working opportunities to support your work/life balance
• Access to Continued Professional Development
• Involvement in improvement and research activities
• Health and Wellbeing activities and access to an excellent staff wellbeing service
• Access to staff discounts across retail, leisure and travel