Job summary
- Main area
- Patient Safety
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0426-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pa/pro rata for pat time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/06/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/06/2025
Employer heading

Patient Safety Investigations Manager & Patient Safety Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
The post holder will work closely with various stakeholders, including clinical and governance teams, to identify learning and improvement opportunities and enhance the patient safety culture.
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the Post holder include:
- Conducting and overseeing complex patient safety incident investigations to ensure thorough systems based analysis, including embedding human factors and just culture principles .
- Developing and delivering training programmes related to patient safety incident investigations to enhance the skills and knowledge of staff.
- Providing senior leadership and support on highly complex issues pertaining to patient safety incidents.
- working closely and collaborate with various stakeholders at all levels of the organisation to foster a positive patient safety culture.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it’s staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters or equivalent level of experience
- Trained in Patient Safety Investigations - A systems approach to investigating and learning from patient safety incidents (provided by HSSIB)
- Patient Safety Specialist trained in Level 3 and 4 National Patient Safety Syllabus
Desirable criteria
- Recognised training qualification
- Registered clinical professional
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial, proven experience of managing patient safety in a large, complex organisation, with an understanding of the principles that underpin approaches to improving patient safety in health systems
- Experience of driving improvement for the safety of patients
- Experience of undertaking complex patient safety incident investigations under the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework
- Previous responsibility for/involvement in quality governance systems
Skills and Knowldege
Essential criteria
- Expertise in human factors, systems thinking and application of just culture
- Significant knowledge of patient safety incident investigation, including system engineering initiative for patient safety (SEIPS)
- Ability to analyse complex information (including patient safety incident data, administrative data, mortality data) from a range of sources
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and ability to provide and effectively communicate complex, sensitive and contentious information to staff, patients and relatives/carers
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide leadership and work with senior leaders
- Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships across an organisation
- Credibility and enthusiasm for patient safety
- Enthusiasm and interest in ensuring others are trained and developed in patient safety, as appropriate.
- Values diversity and difference; operate with integrity and openness
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
- Rebecca Nadin
- Job title
- Head of Patient Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2268621
- Additional information
Email or MS teams are the preferred way of contact
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