Job summary
A fantastic and exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, experienced and enthusiastic individual to work within the Clinical Governance team as a Patient Safety Incident Lead.
Would you like to be part of a dynamic and highly motivated team to improve patient care, whilst ensuring effective working relationships across the trust. The ideal candidate must have a flexible proactive attitude as they will work alongside clinical teams across organisational and professional boundaries to support the delivery of high-quality patient centred care.
Your primary responsibility will be to undertake Patient Safety Incident Investigations (PSIIs) underpinned by PSIRF methodology. You will be supporting other PSII investigators and will support Divisions throughout the Organisation. You should have experience and understanding in all aspects of patient safety, human factors and incident investigation or review, with demonstrable organisational skills and be able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Previous experience of working within a health care setting would be essential.
Main duties of the job
In order to be a successful Serious Incident Lead in our team you will:
- Hold a clinical qualification
- Be responsible for investigating PSIIs and with the Division oversee the reporting process.
- Provide recommendations and advice for the future safety, treatment, care and well-being, of people who use our services, their families, carers and staff
- Maintain records and data undertaking analysis and provide reports
- Manage sensitive and contentious investigations dealing with highly emotional situations with Service Users, carers and families, staff and partner agencies
- Be required to give evidence at inquests and other formal investigations
- Work with Practitioners and Teams to test policy, practice and procedure in order to reduce the risk of harm and repeated incidents.
- Reduce delays in the PSII investigation process and ensure that the process is concluded to a high standard within the agreed time frame.
- This post requires intense intellectual concentration and interpersonal effort as the post holder will be dealing with a large number of people working in different roles, and will be leading on complex and sensitive information. They will also be required to undertake a significant degree of travelling throughout the Trust's area. These will be regular demands
- Have the ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical situations and arrive at well thought out risk assessed decisions in short period of time
Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details
About us
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.
We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for full details for role and responsibilities.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinical professional qualification.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in mental health services with direct service user involvement.
- Extensive experience of working at a senior manager level at band 7a or above.
- Experience of investigating SUI's, disciplinary issues and complex complaints.
- An awareness of national health policy and mental health policy, in relation to clinical governance as it impacts on the management of incidents.
- Awareness of PSIRF and root cause analysis.
- Investigation 'Root Cause and Analysis'.
- Experience of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
Desirable
- Training in root cause analysis.
Communication
Essential
- The ability to communicate at a high level with a range of stakeholders, internal and external in a sensitive manner.
Skills
Essential
- Have the ability to listen, reflect and the ability to facilitate change.
Abilities
Essential
- Ability to deal with heavy workload, tight schedules.
- Ability to handle sensitive information confidentially.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Portland House
East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton/ Hove
BN11 1HS