Job overview
This is the opportunity to join the patient safety and governance team at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as the Safety Quality System Lead working across all the Trust sites.
The System Lead is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Trust Safety Quality System. The Lead ensures that the Trust’s external incident reporting requirements are met, including in relation to data quality and the effectiveness of processes and also supports a variety of day to day patient safety and governance activities.
If you have a background in incident management or governance, strong IT skills and a passion for making a real difference to the people who both use and deliver our services, then reach out for a discussion about the role.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities include:
• To maintain and develop the Trust safety quality system that is used to manage quality governance processes including incidents, feedback, risk, policy, inquests and claims.
• To oversee the management of all system requirements and issues (for example user accounts, user queries, report queries etc), this includes the management of the email inbox for staff queries and issues.
• To undertake activities that ensure good data quality on the system such as form design, data quality reports, training and feedback to staff.
• To ensure the system delivers regulatory external reporting requirements, including submissions to the Learn from Patient Safety Events (LFPSE).
• To participate in a variety of ways to monitor quality and compliance within the Trust.
Working for our organisation
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 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
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 more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 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.
Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search or .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For the full details and main responsibilities please see the job description and person specification which are attached.
Person specification
Training and qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Degree of equivalent experience
2. CPD system admin or governance
Desirable criteria
3. Safety quality system training
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
4. Experience managing or supporting digital safety or governance systems within a healthcare or equivalent setting
5. Experience coordinating incident management processes and supporting learning responses
6. Understanding of statutory regulations such as Duty of Candour and incident reporting protocols
Desirable criteria
7. Knowledge of IT security, data protection, and business continuity planning within the NHS
Skills and ability
Essential criteria
8. Excellent data quality skills, including auditing, validation, and evidence triangulation
9. Strong IT skills in a range of IT systems including Microsoft 365