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Job summary

Main area
Administration
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
354-CO-21465
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Portland House
Town
East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton/ Hove
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/07/2024 23:59

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Patient Safety Investigator Lead

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

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

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for full details for role and responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Clinical professional qualification.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • 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 criteria
  • Training in root cause analysis.

Communication

Essential criteria
  • The ability to communicate at a high level with a range of stakeholders, internal and external in a sensitive manner.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Have the ability to listen, reflect and the ability to facilitate change.

Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to deal with heavy workload, tight schedules.
  • Ability to handle sensitive information confidentially.

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Vijay Kaleechurn
Job title
Lead for Patient Safety and Incident Management
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

For more information or a discussion please contact 

Liz Chamberlain, Clinical Governance Business Manager ([email protected]) or

Vijay Kaleechurn, Lead for Patient Safety and Incident Management [email protected]

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