Patient Safety Lead

Our ADHD Careers: About the role

Salary: £50,000.00

Shift and Schedule: Monday to Friday 40 hours per week

Location: Lincoln/Sheffield

Benefits:

• Enhanced Holidays (5 Weeks) plus extra day for birthday
• Paid 30 minute lunch
• Employers' pension contribution above minimum
• EV Car Scheme
• Blue light card
• Use of static home (near Alton Towers)

Full job description:

Do you want to make a difference?

Are you ready for a new challenge?

Can you work in a team that's supporting world class healthcare for people with ADHD?

If you have answered YES to these questions, we have a great opportunity for you!

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead for clinical risk management processes and patient safety for adults and children across the organization including:
• Oversight and governance of the waiting list risk assessment process.
• Ownership of the clinical risk management and PSIRF policies and processes, ensuring that they remain up to date, relevant and are consistent with practice, procedure, and the national patient safety agenda.
• Delivery of regular audits of clinical risk management processes and preparation and dissemination of documentation ensuring that lessons identified, learned are disseminated robustly.
• Organisation, scheduling and co-facilitation (with L&D support) of risk management training for clinical and non-clinical staff.
• Provision of staff support for clinical risk management queries and issues.
• Familiarity of key national strategies affecting patient safety (national suicide prevention programme, the National Patient Safety Strategy, Patent Safety Incident Framework (PSIRF) ensuring that internal processes and procedures are aligned with these.
• Undertaking and reporting on patient safety Incident investigations ensuring learning outcomes are identified and learned.
• Interdepartmental liaison with key internal services leads such as Head of Performance, Clinical Governance Lead, Medication Management Lead, Safeguarding Lead, to identify and address patient safety issues.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Qualified mental health nurse, current UK registration and PIN with the NMC (Essential)
• Previous experience in clinical risk management and patient safety (Essential)
• Qualified Non-medical Prescriber (NMP) with current registration (Desirable)
• Specialist ADHD Nurse with experience (Desirable)
• To work unsupervised and independently within the NMC Code of Professional Conduct. (Essential)
• Expert level of understanding of the pharmaceutical treatment options for ADHD (Desirable)

Competencies:

• Demonstrable ability to connect with and provide support for children and/ or Adults
• Familiarity with EPR systems, and high level of computer literacy
• Willingness to learn and follow clinic’s standards of practice
• Excellent communication skills, ability to communicate effectively with staff and patients
• Sufficient IT skills to be able to navigate electronic record keeping systems
• Ability to work alongside others within a multi-disciplinary team setting
• Professional approach consistent with regulatory body expectations
• Excellent time management and ability to manage own workload
• Previous line management experience
• Strong desire to uphold clinical standards and deliver best practice