Head of Patient Safety & Risk
- Employer
- Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Hackney, East London
- Salary
- £46,433 - £54,439 pa.inc
- Closing date
- 31 Aug 2016
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- Sector
- Acute Care Nursing, Nurse Management
- Contract Type
- Permanent
Job Details
Head of Patient Safety & Risk
£46,433 - £54,439 pa.inc
Permanent
Working pattern: 37.5 Hours/Week
Job Reference: 293-20430
How would you feel about having responsibility for the safety of patients within one of the most diverse and vibrant populations in London?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to lead on Homerton’s safety and risk agenda, improving patient safety across the Trust.
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing integrated care organisation committed to serving the population of Hackney. Our CQC inspections rated our services as Good overall with an Outstanding A&E department.
The Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services to a highly diverse patient group with a range of clinical and cultural needs within its local population as well as some specialist services for a wider group of patients.
The Trust has a highly motivated Executive Team within which the Chief Nurse takes responsibility for Governance as well as Nursing/Midwifery and Health Visiting.
Reporting to the Chief Nurse and Director of Governance, you will be responsible for coordinating and leading the Trust’s patient safety and risk agenda in conjunction with the overall Trust Quality Team.
Quality in its three dimensions of patient safety, clinical effectiveness and patient experience is one of the three key priorities for the Trust. This key role will ensure that relevant patient safety initiatives are undertaken and reported, and that improvement activity is identified and initiated in order to ensure that patient safety is monitored and improved.
The post holder will jointly manage the Quality and Patient Safety Managers providing operational support to the divisions to deliver the quality agenda in relation to patient safety and clinical effectiveness.
The successful candidate will be a committed and innovative individual with experience in developing systems to support a high safety culture to lead patient safety across the Trust.
The post holder must have a clinical professional qualification, experience of working in risk management within the NHS, a track record of delivery and commitment to improving safety as well as strong analytical skills and the ability to present complex information effectively
This appointment will be subject to a satisfactory completion of a 6 month probationary period for new starters to the Trust.
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London. The main community served by the Trust is highly diverse with a complex mix of clinical and cultural needs.
The Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. These specialist services include obstetrics, neonatology, foetal medicine, fertility, neuro-rehabilitation, bariatric surgery, and asthma and allergy services.
Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is proud to be included on the HSJ and Nursing Times Best Places to Work list 2015.
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Closing date: 31 August 2016.
Company
The Trust provides general health services at hospital and in the community with staff working out of 75 different sites in the City and the London borough of Hackney. Our primary site, Homerton Hospital, has almost 500 beds spread across 11 wards, a 9-bed intensive care unit and maternity, paediatric and neonatal wards. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's, originally a workhouse but now the home for many NHS bodies and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
The hospital has three day-surgery theatres and six main operating theatres for all types of general surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, gynaecology, maxio-facial, urology, ENT, obesity, bariatrics and obstetrics. We also have a surgical treatment room within the main theatres complex.
We offer a range of specialist care in obstetrics and neonatology, fetal medicine, fertility, HIV and sexual health, asthma and allergies, keyhole and bariatric surgery and neuro-rehabilitation across east London and beyond.
As a Foundation Trust we are accountable to local people who can become members and governors. We have a duty to consult and involve a Board of Governors drawn from patients, staff, membership and partner organisations in our strategic planning.
We have earned a reputation for the quality of training offered and are recognised as one of the top recruiters to high quality research studies in the UK with particular interest in neonatal, sexual health and respiratory medicine. We are also recognised as innovators in embracing methods and systems that promise better and safer patient care.
We now employ over 4000 staff, most of whom grew up in Hackney, most of whom live in the neighbourhood, many of whom followed their mothers and fathers into the hospital, a number of whom work alongside more than one family member, some of whom were born here and all of whom believe they belong to something of great value.
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