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Patient Safety and Risk Co-ordinator
The closing date is 02 June 2026
The Patient Safety and Risk Co-Ordinator has a unique and varied role responsible for managing key elements of the Patient Safety, Risk and Quality agenda within HDFT. The post would be part of a busy but dynamic team that encompasses all elements of quality and safety including Patient Safety Incident Investigation or learning responses, Complaints, Claims, Coroners, Risk Manager, Compliance, Patient Experience and Clinical Effectiveness.
The post sit within the Safety and Investigation arm of the Quality Team which encompasses patient experience, Patient Safety Incident Investigation and other learning responses, Claims, Coroners and incident management.
This post is for 22.5 hours per week
Main duties of the job
The key focus for this role will be:
* Support quality improvement and patient safety across all directorates
* Support processes to ensure robust incident reporting processes, including investigations, learning and effectiveness assurance mechanisms, are in place to improve and learn from patient safety events.
* Support the management of risk management arrangements across the organisation
* Provide support to the ongoing development of the Datix system
* Ensuring learning is shared across the Trust
* Providing oversight on ensuring safety actions are embedded and effectively monitored, and closed with relevant assurance.
Utilise well developed negotiating and influencing skills and have the ability to build effective working relationships.
About us
The Quality Team are responsible for the management of quality and safety and initiatives for HDFT. The department oversees: Serious Incident Investigation, Incident Management, Risk Management, Patient Experience and Engagement, Patient Safety, Clinical Effectiveness, Compliance, Claims and Coroners.
Job responsibilities
The Patient Safety Officer is responsible for:
Supporting the event reporting process including establishing and embedding just culture of reporting incidents
Support with the trusts compliance relating to the duty of candour regulation
Oversee HDFTs reporting to the national NHS system (LFPSE), learning from patient safety events, to ensure accurate data recording.
Support the embedding of Datix (DCIQ) system including ongoing maintenance and highlight improvements to aid with event recording.
Support the embedding of the patient safety incident response framework (PSIRF) across the organisation
Utilise well developed negotiation and influencing skills and the ability to present sound reasoning and awareness in relation to patient safety
Support workplans, project plans, themes and lessons learned relating to incident reporting
Build and maintain relationships with key personnel to ensure knowledge and information is shared across internal and external stakeholders
Support and co-ordinate the review of patient safety Incident investigations (PSII) and Patient Safety Event Committee (PSEC)
Contribute to the annual Quality Account report in relation to patient safety
Oversee National Patient Safety Alerts via Central Alert Systems (CAS)
Attendance of regular patient safety meetings, including, but not limited to, RROSE (Rapid Review of Safety Event), and Learning responses, (eg after action review).
Oversee daily review of patient safety events reported trustwide and elevate accordingly
Creating a monthly Newsletter, and providing support to the Safety and Learning Network Meeting.
Provide training for safety and risk process to colleagues across the trust
Oversee and play a key role in delivering risk management prosses, aiding colleagues to assess and input risks within DCIQ accurately
Provide secretarial support for key safety and risk meetings
Person Specification
* Educated to degree level or demonstrable equivalent experience in a relevant role.
* Evidence of ongoing professional development
* Experience of working within a Governance Team
* Experience of working within risk and assurance processes
* In depth knowledge and experience of working with the Datix system
* An understanding of the implications on national policies for the quality and governance agenda e.g Patient Safety Strategy and their implementation
* Knowledge and experience of collecting and analysing data
* Sound report writing skills for a variety of audiences (both internal and external) and purpose, both verbally and in writing.
* Qualification in Leadership and management in health and Social Care or equivalent experience
* Evidence of managing projects in the NHS environment.
* In depth knowledge of regulatory frameworks, specifically CQC and understanding of quality reporting requirements
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum (pro rata)
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