Patient Safety Improvement Advisor

Main area Administration Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract 12 months (Fixed Term will end 26.10.2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 282-OD707

Employer The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The Royal Marsden Town Cross site Salary £53,751 - £60,651 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 19/08/:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Ryan Marsden NHS Foundation Trusts Patient Safety and Clinical Assurance team as an interim (maternity cover) Patient Safety & Improvement Advisor.
The Patient Safety & Improvement Advisor is responsible for promoting and driving the patient safety agenda within the Trust, ensuring effective and continuous improvements using SMART action plans.
This post is responsible for managing complex patient safety learning and insight through to action from direction to delivery.

The post holder must possess the professional knowledge and attributes to develop, implement and monitor a comprehensive organisational system and process for the co-ordination and management of patient safety programmes and learning ensuring delivery of our strategic aims.
Accountable to the Trust Risk & Safety Lead, the role will support the integration of safety and learning governance arrangements in relation to the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), ensuring that leadership, accountability and practices are in place to deliver organisational assurance on patient safety and learning.

Main duties of the job

o The Patient Safety & Improvement Advisor is responsible for promoting and driving the patient safety agenda within the Trust, ensuring effective and continuous improvements using SMART action plans.

o This post is responsible for managing complex patient safety learning and insight through to action from direction to delivery.

o The post holder must possess the professional knowledge and attributes to develop, implement and monitor a comprehensive organisational system and process for the co-ordination and management of patient safety programmes and learning ensuring delivery of our strategic aims.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification:

• Provide the Trust with expert advice on all aspects of patient safety and PSIRF.
• Ensure that effective Clinical and Corporate Governance systems are embedded into any change process introduced across the Trust.
• Ensure best practice with regards to incident reporting, monitoring, trend analysis, action plans and changes in practice.
• Deliver training sessions and ongoing training for staff re risk management and patient safety.
• Providing support and training to the Patient Safety Partner roles.

Person specification Education/Qualifications

• First level registration nurse, allied health care professional. In the absence of registration, the applicant must have had significant experience in a similar risk management related role.
• Evidence of ongoing professional development and study in relevant topic e.g. Diploma in Clinical Risk and Claims Management, Health & Safety certificate, IOSH Managing safely certificate
• Patient Safety Syllabus Level 1&2.

Experience

• Experience of teaching at unit / ward level.
• Experience involving patients, families and carers in investigation processes
• Experience in dealing with incident reporting.
• Management Experience of ward / unit.
• Evidence of leading in the management of change
• Experience in working in an NHS organisation.
• An understanding of Patient Safety and Risk Management systems
• Understanding of the LFPSE / Care Quality Commission.
• Experience of working as part of a team.

Skills Abilities/knowledge

• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Work independently and within a team.
• Ability to produce reports of a high standard.
• Presentation & teaching skills.

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination - What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

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