The Royal Berkshire
Associate Director of Nursing: Patient Safety
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Band 8C Associate Director of Nursing: Patient Safety
The post holder will have a leadership role, reporting to the Deputy Chief Nurse and working closely with senior leaders, clinicians and managers across the Trust to ensure that services are safe and effective. They will create an environment, which promotes and supports patient safety and high-quality care.
The role is responsible for the management of quality, and patient safety across the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. This encompasses clinical effectiveness, and incident management, learning from incidents and compliance. The post holder is overall accountable for all the services provided by the Patient Safety Team, & Tissue Viability Team.
Associate Director of Nursing will provide strategic direction to the Trusts patient safety providing expert advice and guidance throughout the Trust. The post holder will lead and deliver on a range of patient safety & quality projects and contributing to the wider Trust Quality Strategy, Risk Strategy and compliance with the Care Quality Commissions standards.
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Advise the Trust Board of any risk, patient safety concerns which would have the potential to impact on CQC compliance requirements.
The role is responsible for direct management of the Safety, Datix, Tissue Viability, Team.
The Associate Director of Nursing will provide organisational wide leadership in shaping the on going direction of the patient safety strategy.
- To lead the development of priorities for PSIRF education and training raising awareness of patient safety and risk management across the Trust in line with the Trust Training Needs Analysis
- Accountable for leading, planning and delivery of patient safety improvement work streams (including NHS Safety Strategy) across the organisation in partnership with clinical leads and external with other providers or organisations to improve safety.
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Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our "CARE" values:
- Compassionate
- Aspirational
- Resourceful
- Excellent
reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Helen Challand
- Job title: Deputy Chief Nurse
- Email address: Helen.challand@royalberkshire.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07824560827
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