Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£64,156 per annum

About the Role
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS trusts, providing a wide range of hospital and community services across south London and specialist care for patients from further afield. The Trust is renowned for clinical excellence, high quality teaching, and research, and is part of King’s Health Partners, an academic health sciences centre. We pride ourselves on delivering safe, high quality care with one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS and an overall CQC rating of ‘good’, with adult community services rated ‘outstanding’.

We are seeking a passionate and experienced Patient Safety Specialist (Band 8a AfC) to join our Trust Patient Safety Team within the Quality and Assurance Directorate. This role offers an exciting opportunity to lead patient safety incident investigations, embed learning across the organisation, and drive improvements in patient care through quality improvement methodologies. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with clinical leaders and quality teams to deliver the Trust’s Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), promote a culture of openness and learning, and ensure compliance with national safety standards.

The post holder will provide expert advice on patient safety, lead investigations into serious incidents, analyse safety data to identify themes, and support the development and delivery of patient safety training and education. This cross-site role requires strong leadership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence change at all levels within the organisation. You will also have responsibility for line managing the Patient Safety team and overseeing the patient safety budget.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is committed to creating a fair and supportive working environment where staff are empowered to deliver the best possible care. We encourage flexible working and support a healthy work-life balance.

Experience
- Experience in a patient safety or quality improvement role at band 7 or above
- Proven experience of leading investigations and independent reviews such as root cause analysis
- Experience of delivering training to diverse teams or departments
- Experience of line management
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, preferably within an NHS quality or patient safety context
- NHS experience in senior quality, safety or quality assurance roles is desirable
- Experience of developing policy for clinically related practices is desirable

About you
- Strong leadership and management skills with the ability to motivate and develop staff
- Excellent knowledge of NHS patient safety and quality regulatory frameworks
- Clear understanding of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy and clinical governance principles
- Ability to provide, receive and present highly complex, sensitive and contentious information clearly
- Skilled in negotiation with senior stakeholders on difficult issues
- Ability to undertake rigorous internal investigations and independent reviews
- Analytical approach to data collection and presentation to stimulate clinical quality improvement
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Self-motivated with excellent organisational skills and sound judgement
- Knowledge of systems thinking and quality information systems is desirable

Qualifications
- Masters level education and/or relevant professional qualification
- Further qualification in statistical analysis, quality improvement or risk management
- Qualification or advanced training in patient safety incident investigation (including human factors) and quality improvement methodologies
- Membership of a relevant professional body or clinical background is desirable