Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-1998
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Mary's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Risk and Audit Nurse
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
As a Paediatric Quality and Safety Nurse your role is to support the wider Multi disciplinary team with patient safety with a focus on risk management and sharing of learning from incidents.
To support teams to follow the PSIRF framework and provide expertise to facilitate the delivery of high quality reports.
To support families involved in patient safety incidents and support with undertaking Compassionate engagement.
Act as a professional role model, provide direct and indirect clinical care, teaching, audit and research, this involves managing a wide range of complex and sometime conflicting priorities.
To work with the Lead Nurse for Risk and Governance to monitor compliance relating to patient safety.
Main duties of the job
- Risk Nurse will be responsible for supporting the multi-disciplinary team when incidents have occurred in relation to patient safety.
- Working collaboratively with the governance team and medical directors to ensure robust investigations are carried out when incidents have occurred.
- Sharing between teams the learning from incidents that have occurred through the process of Safety huddles and teaching opportunities.
- Reviewing of incident reporting and undertaking local audits to improve patient outcomes. Collating of data relating to patient safety and risk management.
- Rolling out of new processes and guidance that support change in practice, providing high quality lived-experience specific supervision,
- Coordinate development to provide study days for nursing staff to provide further training on patient safety and incident management.
Work closely with the external agencies for completion of incident reports.
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/RN Child/RSCN
- Post registration qualification in specialty
- Educated to postgraduate diploma/degree level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- MSc/MRes or working towards this qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of Risk Management and Audits in a clinical area
- Experience and knowledge of quality, standard setting and audit
- Experience in managing complaints and quality assurance
Desirable criteria
- Evidence in Quality Improvement/Project Management
Skills
Essential criteria
- Organisation and management skills, i.e. Negotiating skills, Team building skills and Appraisal skills
- Ability to manage change
- Articulate with advanced written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
Desirable criteria
- Governance and risk processes
- Service improvement experience
- IT Skills (Including proficiency with Microsoft Office Packages and accurate, fast typing skills)
- Capable of working strategically (business planning, service improvements, strategies for infection control)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Annmarie Deas
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for Risk
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920757926
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