Lead for Patient Safety Incident Management

North London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a credible and motivated Lead for Patient Safety Incident Management to provide specialist patient safety leadership to an allocated Care Group.

You will be the principal link between the Care Group and the Patient Safety Incident Management Team, helping to embed a just and learning culture in which incident responses lead to meaningful and sustainable improvement.

Working within the Deputy Chief Nursing Officer's Quality and Safety Directorate, you will support the implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), the Trust's Patient Safety Incident Response Plan, Learning from Deaths arrangements and the wider patient safety agenda.

Main duties of the job:

• Lead and quality-assure patient safety investigations and other learning responses, including PSIIs, After Action Reviews, SWARMs, multidisciplinary learning reviews and thematic reviews.
• Support services promptly following significant patient safety incidents, providing specialist oversight and coordination of the initial response.
• Apply systems thinking and human factors principles to identify contributory factors, system issues and opportunities for improvement.
• Promote meaningful involvement of patients, families and carers throughout patient safety responses and support compliance with Duty of Candour.
• Oversee learning arising from deaths and support the monitoring and delivery of actions arising from mortality reviews.
• Analyse intelligence from incidents, complaints, mortality reviews, claims, audits and risks to identify emerging themes and priorities.
• Support Care Groups to translate learning into measurable safety improvement and monitor whether agreed actions are effective and sustained.
• Develop patient safety capability through training, coaching, workshops, reflective learning and support for staff leading safety reviews.
• Produce high-quality patient safety reports, dashboards and thematic analyses for governance meetings, senior leaders and Trust committees.

The Trust offers flexible working opportunities, health and wellbeing initiatives, NHS discounts, generous annual leave, access to the NHS Pension Scheme and support from staff networks.