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The Quality and Patient Safety Lead for Women’s Services is responsible for providing support for clinical staff and managers in all aspects of quality and patient safety within Women’ services. The post holder will ensure that systems and processes are in place to support a systematic approach to reporting, assessment, investigation, analysis, evaluation and management of clinical and non-clinical risk.
The post holder will lead on the investigation of serious incidents and ensure all local incidents are investigated in a timely manner and that all learning is disseminated. The post holder will provide highly competent professional advice on the protection of patients, staff, and visitors to ensure patient safety remains a priority.
The post holder will provide leadership, guidance and expertise within the wider multi- professional team for Women’s Services for clinical governance and risk management. This will include putting in place frameworks to ensure that the neonatal and maternity service meets the Trust standards for clinical governance.
They will act as a specialist in the field of risks within Women’s services and ensure that national recommendations are met from MBRRACE-UK; Mothers and babies: Reducing Risk through Audits and Confidential Enquiries across the UK (MBRRACE), National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG), NHS England and Improvement and NHS Resolution guidance.
1. Provide expert advice in relation to the management, reporting, investigation (Patient Safety Incident Investigations) and follow up of adverse clinical incidents to all grades of staff including executive and consultant colleagues.
2. To actively promote the Trust’s Incident Management Policy and procedures throughout the Division, as the basis for reporting and mitigating adverse incidents.
3. Maintain an incident database and promote the timely reporting and management of all adverse incidents, with emphasis on a pro-active and reasonable culture of learning from mistakes.
4. Collaborate with managers and clinicians dealing with patient safety incidents and ensure that investigations and the preparation of reports takes place in a coordinated manner and adheres to Trust time scales.
5. Support the audit programme within Women’s Services and ensure that all high risk areas of practice are scrutinised at an appropriate level.
6. Manage the reporting process to external agencies in the event of an adverse incident occurring, ensuring all internal and external timescales are met.
7. Develop an approach by which learning from local events, Confidential Enquiries, NICE Guidance, and other national recommendations are disseminated regularly using an approach reflective of old and new models of communication.
8. Prepare Board, Committee and Unit reports as necessary.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.