Patient Safety Manager

St Bartholomew's Hospital, home to Barts Cardiac and Cancer Centres, is looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated individual to join our clinical governance team as Patient Safety Manager to offer leadership and support to ongoing embedding, development and maturity of PSIRF across St Bartholomew's Hospital.

Working closely with our Hospital Patient Safety Specialist, the post holder will provide expert advice, lead complex patient safety incident investigations, support compassionate engagement with patients, families and staff, and strengthen learning and improvement systems across divisional governance structures.

The successful candidate will be professionally qualified in a related health care profession and demonstrate education and experience in systems-based incident investigation. They will have ability to constructively challenge and influence others at all levels of the organisation with strong leadership, change management and excellent report writing and presentation skills.

You will be joining a small supportive friendly team, with opportunity for flexible working patterns and further education in patient safety and human factors., This role provides senior leadership within the Clinical Governance Team at St Bartholomew's Hospital, leading the implementation, coordination and quality assurance of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) in alignment with group patient safety priorities. It delivers expert oversight of patient safety incident management, including investigation, learning responses, safety intelligence, and reporting, ensuring robust governance, high-quality learning, and continuous improvement.

The post holder acts as a trusted expert and advisor for patient safety, supporting and developing clinical teams through training, guidance and assurance, using safety data (including Datix) to identify themes, trends and risks, and ensuring effective escalation, assurance and learning through hospital-level governance structures

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.