Patient Safety Nurse Specialist

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an experienced, motivated, and committed nurse to join the corporate Patient Safety Team .
You will join a hardworking team that pride themselves on their drive to always improve the safety culture in the organisation , and want to provide resolution to families that have experienced untoward incidents in the Trust.
We investigate safety incidents in the organisation, liaise with families, collate themes from incident reports and work with multidisciplinary teams across the organisation to understand their safety concerns . There will be a requirement to deliver training in the role.
If you are motivated, have good attention to detail and want to help our small team make a big impression on the Trust then we want to hear from you.
This is an exciting time to join the team as we prepare to implement the new patient strategy and development of the Patient safety incident response framework.
The successful candidate will be expected to be able to thoroughly review patient care, produce a chronology of the care and critically comment on the care given.
You will be required to present care concerns at meetings and be able to produce comprehensive reports following panel reviews of care. Organisational skills and meeting deadlines is key.
Excellent communication skills are vital to enable the team to address concerns at all levels and often distressed families. These will also be important in the delivering of training across the Trust.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital’s NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
The successful candidate will be expected to be able to thoroughly review patient care, produce a chronology of the care and critically comment on the care given.
You will be required to present care concerns at meetings and be able to produce comprehensive reports following panel reviews of care. Organisational skills and meeting deadlines is key .Excellent communication skills are vital to enable the team to address concerns at all levels and often distressed families. These will also be important in the delivering of training across the Trust

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