Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Patient Safety Incident Investigator
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This is an exciting opportunity to join the patient safety and governance team at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a patient safety incident investigator.
The implementation of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework has led to the introduction of a patient safety incident investigators who are responsible for the investigation of patient safety incidents across all three sites – Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Investigations are undertaken in line with the Trust patient safety incident response plan and use a systems-based approach.
If you have a background in incident management or investigation and a passion for improving patient care, making a real difference to the people who both use and deliver our services, then reach out for a discussion about the role.
The patient safety incident investigator will support the head of patient safety and risk to provide Trust-wide oversight, assuring the quality and effectiveness of all types of patient safety incident investigations as part of the Trust’s annually agreed Patient Safety Incident Response Plan (PSIRP). This is required within the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) which has been implemented in response the NHS Patient Safety Strategy.
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The patient safety incident investigator will undertake robust patient safety incident investigations by working with a range of internal and external stakeholders to investigate, analyse and use judgement through the collation of evidence and findings using the agreed methods within the Trust’s PSIRP.
The outcome will be the identification of systems learning from a patient safety incident that will then guide sustainable risk reduction and service improvement, ensuring that a Fair and Learning Culture and human factors principles are maintained.
The patient safety incident investigator will provide senior leadership to the wider patient safety and quality team.
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
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We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs over 8,600 staff and has a turnover of over £450 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
We expect the post holder to uphold the trust's CARE values:
- COMPASSION: caring about our patients and our staff
- ACCOUNTABLE: and responsible, always improving
- RESPECT: for all colleagues, patients and their families
- ENCOURAGING: and challenging each other to always do our best
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Katharine Carter
- Job title: Head of patient safety and risk
- Email address: katharine.carter@hhft.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01256 314919
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