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Job overview

The job purpose for the Patient Safety Investigator is to lead Patient Safety Incident Response and Complaints investigations and reviews within the Trust. The key objective of the investigation is to identify underlying system factors that contributed to an incident, complaint or patient safety event. These findings are then used to identify effective, sustainable improvements by combining learning across multiple patient safety incident investigations and other responses into a similar incident type.

The Investigator will work in line with Being Open and Duty of Candour principles, ensuring appropriate investigation/review methodology and systems-based approach to support the Trust’s patient safety improvement work.  This includes developing a culture of continuous learning and improvement and one where staff feel psychologically safe to raise patient safety concerns; by ensuring responses to incidents and complaints are compassionate, effective, fair and consistent.  The postholder will also support the process of learning from incidents, complaints and audit outcomes and ensure these inform organisation wide improvement programmes and learning and development activities.

The post holder is accountable to the Senior Patient Safety Manager and will be required to deputise for them.

Closing: 10 July 2024

Shortlist: 12 July 2024

Interview: 24/25 July 2024

Main duties of the job

Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust’s (BDCFT’s) Patient Safety, Compliance and Risk function sits within the Directorate of Nursing and is comprised of distinct but inter-related teams:

• Patient Safety
• Patient Advice and Complaints
• Patient Experience and Involvement
• Risk Management and Clinical Audit
• Quality Assurance
• Legal services

The Patient Safety team is required to set the strategic direction for patient safety, to deliver on reactive and proactive aspects of patient safety improvement work and to deliver education and training to enable and support front line staff to keep patients and staff safer.

Working for our organisation

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.