Head of Patient Safety


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£72,719 - £83,505
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	London, CR7 7YE
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	30 Jul 2026
Closing date:	13 Aug 2026

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Summary

The post holder will be responsible for; Acting as a designated Patient Safety Specialist. Promoting a proactive, positive, evidenced-based and Trust wide approach to gathering and acting upon patient safety and quality of care information. Ensuring that staff, people who use our services, their families, carers and others receive a response to incidents, which is efficient, effective and insightful of the impact across all aspects of trust business. Ensuring progress against the Patient Safety Strategy and embedding the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework. Facilitating a culture that improves quality through leading and managing all aspects of the Trusts Patient Safety procedures, including CAS Alerts, Quality Alerts, and the reporting and management of incidents, including never events and Patient Safety Investigations in line with current Government Legislation, Regulations, Policy Guidance and good practice. Ensuring the timely and effective investigation of incidents and complex complaints, ensuring that regulatory duties toward duty of candour are completed, family concerns are included with terms of reference and supporting the review of the report via an internal expert panel Informing and advising the Chief Executive, Trust Board, Governors and partners on all aspects relating to patient safety, including timeliness and responsiveness of incident reporting and management and recommended action for practice development.

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