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Job summary

Main area
NMC / HCPC Registered
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
150-SN1037-COR-A
Employer
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Brighton General Hospital
Town
Brighton
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/07/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust logo

Patient Safety Training Senior Advisor

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

This new role will focus on scoping and expanding the offer of training available to those working across the range of paediatric services, with a focus on settings and teams caring for our most complex children and young people. You will work closely with the operational teams to ensure fairness and equity to high quality training that ensures our patients and their families / carers are cared for by clinicians with expertise and confidence.

 

Main duties of the job

The Patient Safety Training Senior Advisor will act in an expert capacity providing a strategic, comprehensive, Trust wide Patient Safety Training service (which includes Moving and Handling and Resuscitation). The post holder will act as a deputy for the Trust’s Resuscitation Lead.

 

Working for our organisation

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

  • Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
  • Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
  • Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
  • Excellent training and development opportunities 
  • Research opportunities
  • Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
  • Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
  • Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
  • Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
  • Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
  • Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The role involves the development, implementation and monitoring of all patient safety training related strategies, policies and procedures.  This includes providing effective high quality training to different staff groups, investigating incidents, and carrying out regular informal and formal safety monitoring regimes across the various different work environments used by the Trust

Due to the geographical nature of Trust the post holder will be expected to travel across the county, working away from their base location in the delivery of their duties.

Person specification

Qualifications and/or Professional Registration

Essential criteria
  • Teaching qualification
  • NMC / HCPC Registered
  • Post-registration qualification relevant to child health settings
Desirable criteria
  • Patient handling / EDGE qualification
  • Certification in ALS Resuscitation

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Considerable experience working within the NHS and in relevant field
  • Experience of working in acute paediatric environment such as HDU, ITU, A&E. OR Experience with CYP with complex care needs including: Tracheostomy and ventilation Enteral feeding Atypical anatomy Range of Neurodisability and neurodiversity conditions/diagnosis
  • Proven staff management skills
  • Current Resuscitation Council (UK) guide-lines
  • Relevant legislation regarding adult and paediatric healthcare and resuscitation issues
  • Knowledge of manual handling issues
  • Understanding of the differences of resuscitation delivery between acute and primary care
  • Experience of teaching or coaching others
  • Experience of designing, delivering and developing training courses
  • Experienced in the use of QI methodologies
  • Experience negotiating with staff, of all levels and with individuals and groups
  • Experience of implementing risk assessments and any actions resulting from risk assessments
Desirable criteria
  • Health and Safety in healthcare
  • Knowledge of appraisal processes
  • Experience of working and communicating complex information with people from different academic/professional backgrounds
  • Proven track record working across a range of organisations/agencies to deliver projects / operational work
  • Incident investigations
  • Relevant experience demonstrating leader-ship and instances where you have motivated others to achieve a common goal

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate with all members of the multidisciplinary team
  • Proven ability to plan and deliver programmes of teaching/training in clinical situations.
  • Ability to present complex and/or sensitive in-formation in front of an audience and adapt to questions/feedback.
  • Ability to learn new information and incorporate new information/research into their work and working practices
  • Excellent IT skills with the ability to use and cre-ate tables and spreadsheets in Microsoft Excel
  • Ability to interpret difficult or technical information into plain English, which a wide range of people can easily understand.
  • Ability to manage a situation if all the necessary information is not available
  • Ability to work autonomously
  • Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team
  • Prior understanding of relevant UK legislation
  • Understand the importance of listening and asking open questions during investigations
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of UK health and safety related legislation, Approved Codes of Practice (ACoP) and HSE Guidance
  • Member of the national back exchange and Resuscitation forum
  • Ability to analysis and problem solve (e.g. identifying trends and developing solutions).

Other requirements

Essential criteria
  • Ability to drive between the different SCFT sites and premises where SCFT are working

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerCommitted to being an Inclusive EmployerVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident leaderMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Armed Forces Covenant Bronze Award

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Ian Hubbard
Job title
Patient Safety Training Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07484 524366
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