Job summary
- Main area
- Patient Safety
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-CS7474042
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Littlemore Mental Health Centre
- Town
- Oxford
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 31/10/2025
Employer heading
Patient Safety Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
We are recruiting for a full-time Patient Safety Lead to join our team and provide leadership within patient safety across the Trust.
You'll be supporting directorate and clinical teams, completing patient safety reviews to a high standard, delivering training on patient safety, and responsible for sharing learning across Oxford Health. The team works across all directorates in the Trust which include community, dental, mental health, forensic and learning disability service. This role provides the opportunity to gain knowledge of many different services, and different types of incidents (although due to nature of our service self harm/suspected suicide are the majority).
We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised, motivated person, with excellent communication skills. This is a challenging role within a busy team, but is highly rewarding to work collaboratively with clinical staff and patient/family to ultimately identify areas of learning and improvement. Our team currently works flexibly between the office and home and this role will require you to travel to different sites across our geographical area.
If you’re a registered nurse, AHP, social worker, or have significant senior experience in health care service looking for a rewarding step in your career, we would love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
- Leadership in patient safety team, directorate and clinical teams in all aspects of patient safety.
- To be an expert in Patient Safety and reviews, techniques and practice, including Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety (SEIPS), Human Factors.
- Monitor and interpret national guidance and policy in order to ensure that Trust procedures and practice comply or exceed best practice
- To review patient safety incidents and/or complex complaints, acting as a role model and expert advisor for other staff involved in the reviews, ensuring that all reviews are carried out to the highest possible standards.
- To produce high quality reports that identify the system and process factors that led to the incident/complaint occurring. Suggesting safety improvement areas for change in practice.
- Analyse themes and patterns from incidents and complaints to support learning and changes. Presenting these in internal and external forums.
- Share learning across trust, and deliver patient safety training.
- To work flexibly as part of wider Patient Safety, undertaking duties and activities relevant to level of post to improve the experience of patients and staff.
Please refer to the job description attached for a comprehensive list of duties.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the “candidate guide to making an application” and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.
As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible.
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
• Excellent opportunities for career progression
• Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
• 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
• NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
• Competitive pension scheme
• Lease car scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Mental Health First Aiders
• Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)
• Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application.
The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support their application. We kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of their experience and must take care to ensure the use of AI tools does not generate an application that does not accurately reflect their knowledge, skills and values.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Health professional (e.g. Nurse, OT, SW)
- Postgraduate qualification in nursing/health-related topic, or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- Good knowledge of statutory and civil law as it applies to the services provided by the Trust
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad knowledge of clinical and managerial systems and processes and clinical intervention across disciplines and service areas.
- Evidence of having undertaken Patient Safety training and ability to apply methodology to a wide range of types of incidents and service areas
- Experience of investigating significant incidents
- Evidence of ability and experience in public speaking
Desirable criteria
- Experience of facilitating multidisciplinary team reviews following a suicide
- Experience of facilitating local learning reviews
- Experience of delivering Patient Safety training
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to convey, with high levels of sensitivity and understanding, extremely distressing information to patients and carers.
- Knowledge and understanding of professional and contemporary issues in mental health practice and the NHS.
- Facilitation, negotiation and influencing skills.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Harte
- Job title
- Patient Safety Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 902351
- Additional information
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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