Overview
The Patient Safety and Learning Coordinator will organise and coordinate trust-wide patient safety learning events by working closely with the patient safety team, senior leadership, specialist services, external stakeholders and agencies to deliver successful and engaging events that promote learning and improvement. The role supports the patient safety team within the framework of the Patient Safety Incident and Response Framework (PSIRF), the Trust Suicide Prevention Approach and the Trust Strategy.
The role is open to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB).
Responsibilities
* Lead on the organisation of trust-wide patient safety learning events (virtual or in person).
* Support the Trust in sharing timely and immediate learning across Directorates by facilitating events or forums where topics can be discussed (frequent, possibly weekly).
* Ensure high quality governance is maintained for the learning events.
* Promote 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 Staffroom patient safety events page and patient safety hub.
* Be flexible to meet the needs of the service by providing cross-cover in the patient safety team when required.
* Work on own initiative, organising and prioritising workloads to meet changing and often tight deadlines.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
* Ability to work on own initiative and prioritise own and others’ workloads to meet deadlines.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills to interact with colleagues at all levels.
Organisation and Contact
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services. The organisation serves 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway and has a diverse workforce of over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities. For further details or informal visits contact: Name: Frances Lowrey, Mortality Review Manager. Email: frances.lowrey@nhs.net. Telephone: 07747 862097.
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Education and Training
Industries
* Hospitals and Health Care
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