Head of Patient Safety and Governance

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Working closely with colleagues across the sector, ensuring coherent strategy and will: Be accountable for legal responsibilities in delivering statutory patient safety duties for Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in line with national requirements and regulatory bodies. Provide independent expertise and guidance for the purposes of maintaining patient safety, encompassing a whole healthcare system approach. Lead on a Trust wide approach to patient safety incidents, including the development and implementation of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). Drive reform and support organisational change and uptake of initiatives that support excellence.
Develop and communicate the vision for the role of innovation, and the development of patient safety strategy and operational policies to support this vision. Monitor compliance and evaluate impact by scrutinising process, whilst ensuring business units are responsive and accountable to patients, the public and wider stakeholders to continuously improve quality, safety and a culture of improvement. Work with the business units and the Board to ensure information and intelligence from incidents and emerging patient safety issues are used as the basis for wider patient safety best practice. Engage with key strategic regional and national policy makers to inform development of national strategy and policies.
Provide expertise of best practice methodologies, regulatory requirements, policy imperatives, innovation and technological developments and stakeholders knowledge. Take responsibility for the overall leadership and management and associated staff within a given portfolio. Be responsible for the provision of synthesizing best evidence available, clinical advice operations and performance information, organisational and policy context and information on related activities from across the health and social care system into a coherent strategy. Demonstrate robust quality governance and clinical compliance, policies and programmes of work in line with the trust quality strategy

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