Patient Safety Clinical Coordinator

Role Introduction

The Patient Safety team sits within the Trusts Clinical Governance Team. The 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.

The job purpose for the Patient Safety Clinical Coordinator is to organise and coordinate the Trusts Rapid Review Process including the trust-wide patient safety learning events by working closely with the patient safety team, senior leadership team, nominated safety experts, external stakeholders and agencies to deliver on successful and engaging events that promote learning and improvement.

The role will also include providing support to the patient safety team by working in line with the Patient Safety Incident and Response Framework (PSIRF), and relevant trust policies.

The Patient Safety Clinical Co-Ordinator will support the delivery of the Organisations patient safety agenda and will support the day to day activities of the Patient Safety Team.

Contact: Sarah Yeomans - Patient Safety Manager for further information - sarahyeomans1@nhs.net

Main duties of the role

• Support the organisation with trust wide patient safety learning events (virtual or in person).
• Support the Trust in sharing timely and immediate learning across Business Units by facilitating events or forums where topics can be discussed. This will be on a weekly frequent basis.
• Participate in continuously promoting a culture of learning, patient safety and quality improvement.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues at all levels.
• Produce high level reports relating to patient safety events and learning responses for trust wide quality reporting.
• Support trust wide news and learning by helping to maintain the patient safety events page
• Coordinate responses for multiple ongoing safety alerts
• Coordinate student placements within the team.
• Be flexible to meet the needs and demands of the service by providing cross cover in the Clinical Governance Team when required.
• Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and others' workloads to meet changing and often tight deadlines.

Please Review the Job Description and Person Specification Attached for full Requirements of the Role.

Adverts will close early where the maximum numbers applicants is reached. 

Working for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Who are we?

Leeds Community Healthcare provides a range of community-based health services across the whole city. We treat people in their homes, local health centres and community hospitals, and work in partnership with other local Trusts, charities and Leeds City Council.

We have a strong culture based on deeply-held values, and our focus at all times is on delivering high quality care to the people of Leeds. In our most recent CQC evaluation, we were rated "Good", with our Adult Services rated "Outstanding" for caring.

Perks of the job

Our benefits range from generous annual leave to access to NHS discount sites. You can find the full list of attractive benefits and rewards at www.leedscommunityhealthcare.nhs.uk click on the Join Our Team Tab.

Right to Work

This role is based in the UK. Employment is conditional on confirmation of the right to work in the UK - either as a UK or Irish citizen, under the EU settlement scheme or having secured any other relevant work visa. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and the role does not meet eligibility for sponsorship, please consider carefully whether you meet the eligibility to apply.