Job overview
Do you want your work to genuinely improve patient safety and save lives?
We are looking for a motivated, organised and values‑driven Patient Safety and Learning from Deaths Co‑ordinator to join our Trust‑wide Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Team at Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT).
This is a key coordination and administrative role at the heart of the Trust’s Patient Safety, Learning from Deaths and Mortality work. You will play a vital part in ensuring that patient safety incidents, mortality reviews and learning processes are well‑managed, robust and translated into meaningful improvement across the organisation.
If you thrive in a role where attention to detail matters, confidentiality is critical, and your work directly supports safer care for patients and families, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive co-ordinator to provide comprehensive support across the Mortality, Learning from Deaths (LFD), and Patient Safety portfolios. The postholder will coordinate key governance processes including Structured Judgement Reviews (SJRs), incident reporting, risk register updates, and the triage of no and low harm incidents, ensuring compliance with Trust and regulatory standards.
The role involves managing patient safety and mortality inboxes, supporting screening of deaths, and coordinating high-level meetings such as the Incident Safety Panel and Learning from Deaths Committee. Responsibilities include preparing and disseminating reports and meeting documentation, maintaining accurate and confidential records in line with GDPR requirements, and supporting audits, quality improvement initiatives, and training events.
Working for our organisation
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
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