Band 8b Head of Patient Safety - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Verified Company

Birmingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you passionate about Patient Safety and supporting staff to deliver high quality care?

Do you want the opportunity to work in a large, diverse organisation that promotes values of being Caring, Open, Respectful, Responsible and Inclusive?

Are you an innovative, strategic thinking and excited about introducing new systems of working to support patient safety culture that is forward thinking, dynamic and focusses to deliver safety improvements and reduce inequalities?

Are you passionate about leading initiatives to implement the NHS Patient Safety Strategy? Do you want the opportunity to use your skills and experience to influence the change that makes a difference to staff, patients and families?

To be the recognised expert leading on Patient Safety including being able to provide professional and specialist knowledge on patient safety and safety improvement ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding just culture principles are embedded in patient safety processes.

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BCHC provide high quality community and specialist services within Birmingham and the West Midlands.

We deliver over 100 clinical services, out in people's homes and in over 200 healthcare settings for adults, children, people with learning disabilities, those with rehabilitation needs and also dental services.

One of our key objectives is to be 'a great place to work' enabling everyone within the organisation to be the best that they can be.

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Responsible for

Line management and direct line management of the Patient Safety and Quality Clinical Lead and the Head of Quality Assurance.

Patient Safety and Quality Clinical Lead who will manage the Patient Safety Manager Prevention of Harms Practitioners, Patient Safety Programme Manager (Safety Thermometer) and Administrator - managed by the PS Programme Manager Head of Quality Assurance.

Financial Responsibility

Responsible for identified budgets and delegated budgets related to the Patient Safety team and Quality Assurance Team and new projects associated with service development.

The post holder will authorise payments from budgets and monitor budgets.

Responsible for managing and monitoring the delegated budgets for Patient Safety Team and Quality Assurance Team payroll and associated non-pay costs.