Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (option for a nine day fortnight or 4 longer day week)
- Job ref
- 292-6770258-CHWS
- Employer
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital
- Town
- Harlow
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus 5% higher cost area supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric lead nurse Patient Safety and Quality
NHS AfC: Band 7
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join our paediatric team as Lead Nurse for patient Safety and Quality. Working with the paediatric teams to support the development and dissemination of the Patient Safety and Risk strategy within the directorates.
Main duties of the job
To support the development and dissemination of the Patient Safety and Risk strategy within the directorates. This involves fostering a culture amongst teams that ensures clinical quality and risk management remains one of the top priorities within the division through:
· Enabling all staff to actively participate in identifying, actioning and evaluating all patient safety and risk issues;
· Leading and supporting the communication and management of the issues through Datix in line with policy
· Support investigation leads in the investigation of serious incidents
· Analyse trends to ensure actions are put in place to reduce the risk of recurrence
· Writing timely reports which clearly identify the issues, lessons learned and changes to practice
· Triangulate all patient safety data to ensure divisional focus is appropriate to risk and protects patient safety
Working for our organisation
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification. This is available to download at anytime.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- registered childrens nurse
- Experience in relevant field
Desirable criteria
- Leadership experience
- Experience working in an environment with conflicting pressures and changing workload
experince
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within a team and of developing good working relationships with internal and external staff at all levels
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kelly Parker
- Job title
- Paediatric Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01279 278206
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