Patient Safety Support Officer | Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 26 Mai 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £25,760 - £27,476 Per Annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 25 Mehefin 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Prescot, L35 5DR |
| Cwmni: | St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 8037783/409-7921787-A |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Patient Safety Support Officer to join our Patient safety team!
The aim of this role is to assist in supporting the Trust’s patient safety assurance process and in use of the Incident Management system, providing advice and assistance to staff across all Trust sites.
The position involves working with all aspects of the system including quality checking incidents, trend analysis, and system configuration.
The role will act as first point of contact for system enquiries and support the provision of a professional, effective and efficient service for the system users.
The successful applicant will be required to travel between Whiston Hospital and Southport Hospital sites
The JD & PS are currently under AfC review and are subject to change.
• Review and give final approval to incidents in Incident management System and ensure they do not contain any patient identifiable data or information.
• Liaise with managers / investigators for updates and amendments if there are insufficient or conflicting information or missing data and escalate incidents resulting in serious harm or which could be potential Never Events.
• Maintain oversight of the safety team email inbox, providing advice and guidance, answering any queries and ensuring appropriate action or escalation is taken.
• Support system users by creating and amending access to the system and setting and managing security levels for all users.
• Maintain the Patient Safety inbox and liaise with other Trusts and the ICB on internally and externally reported incidents and ensure the Interface Incident spreadsheet is populated and updated and feedback is sent.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme.
• Gain understanding of the system configuration and administration settings to implement necessary changes.
• Create reports and dashboards or run searches within incident management system for information gathering and trend monitoring.
• Raise and allocate incidents for SJR reporting in line with the Learning from Deaths programme and offer administrative support to Trust Mortality Surveillance processes.
• Update the investigation spreadsheet using information from the nationwide database when required.
• Input and assign actions relating to serious incidents and add lessons learned codes from finally approved investigation reports.
• Be willing to undertake training for specific and generalised processes within incident management system configuration as and when required to support the team.
• Provide support to the Patient Safety Team Manager with patient safety related reports and data analysis.
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
• Adhere to standards identified within the NHS Professional Codes of Conduct.
• Maintain and develop professional knowledge and expertise in line with the needs of the role and Trust requirements.
• To maintain compliance with statutory and mandatory training as require in role.
• Participate in personal objective setting, supervision and appraisals including the creation and implementation of a personal development plan to enable successful performance in role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Jun 2026
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