Job Description

The Patient Safety Manager is a crucial role in supporting services to achieve effective quality governance by embedding effective incident management and review processes into practice, supporting clinical teams and services with quality improvement in quality and patient safety, ensuring robust structures are in place for good practice to be shared and learning to take place proactively across teams in order to continue to build and embed the foundations of a strong patient safety culture across the organisation.



To drive improvements in the quality and safety of services for our patients and service users, drawing on information and learning from incident reviews, positive practice, networks and nationally published reports.



Please refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.



North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.



With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all



We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.



We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.



Why NLFT?



We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.



We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.



NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme



Excellent internal staff network

The post holder will be aligned with our values:

We Are Kind



We Are Respectful



We Work Together



We Keep Things Simple



We Empower



We Are Proudly Diverse



In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Main responsibilities of the post include to:

Review patient safety incidents and ensure adequate management by clinical teams

Facilitate Patient Safety Incident Reviews

Facilitate After Action Reviews

Facilitate incident review training

Deliver training in quality and safety for clinical staff.

Attend Divisional governance meetings - for patient safety matters, and incident review meetings

Provide timely information reports

Identify themes across patient safety incidents

Support the Legal Services Team in the management of cases for review by HM Coroner