Job summary
To lead the Patient Safety and Risk strategy within the Women Services directorate.

This involves fostering a culture amongst teams that ensures clinical quality and risk management remains one of the top priorities within the division through:

• Enable all staff in women's 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 safety events within Gynaecology.
• 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

Main duties of the job
Work collaboratively with the Women's governance team, senior nurses,therapists and medical staff to deliver and co-ordinate the quality, governance and safety strategy within the speciality.

Oversee the Gynae risk register.

Ensure the appropriate level of investigation is taken in response to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.

Report to and participate in relevant unit, Trust and network level governance and risk meetings.

To work alongside the clinical team to develop new and review existing policies and guidelines.

About us
The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

For more information please follow linkhttps://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person Specification
Education & professional Qualifications
Essential

• Educated to degree or equivalent experience
• Registered Nurse/Midwife/AHP with substantial Gynaecology or Women's Health experience.
• Qualifications in audit and effectiveness or relevant experience

Desirable

• Masters qualification or equivalent or working towards qualification

Experience
Essential

• Experience working in relevant field - Women's health
• Experience working in an environment with conflicting pressures and changing workload
• Experience of working within a team and of developing good working relationships with internal and external staff at all levels
• Experience working within the NHS
• Experience of collating data and extrapolating information
• Experience of working with complaints
• Demonstrates analytical and problem-solving skills

Personal Qualities & attributes
Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• Excellent telephone manner with the ability to deal tactfully, sympathetically and efficiently with all enquiries
• Ability to represent the Department in a professional manner at all times
• Computer literate with experience of Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and excellent and accurate typing skills
• Experienced in writing detailed reports
• Ability to articulate strategic vision
• Ability to use own initiative and work with minimal supervision as part of a team

Royal Free World Class Values
Essential

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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