Job overview
Are you passionate about quality improvement and promoting best practice? Do you want to help make a positive difference for patients and their families? Are you a registered healthcare practitioner with a clinical background and preferably have governance experience? If so, we would love to hear from you!
The successful candidate must be NMC Nurse or Midwife , AHP, HCPC registered Paramedic or be an equivalent registered clinician. You will need to be inspirational, motivated, and determined in your approach, enjoy a challenge and have a proven ability to positively engage with and influence others.
As a member of a small team, you will promote the learning from deaths agenda across the organisation, supporting the well-established mortality review process and wider learning from deaths programme of work, liaising with a variety of internal and external stakeholders. The post is based at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, although travel between hospital sites within the Trust may be required.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide leadership on all aspects of Learning from Deaths within the Trust and will facilitate learning and improvements in clinical practice and safety to reduce risk and avoidable harm and death.
The role will incorporate the promotion of a positive learning environment where changes are established and embedded to improve patient safety, experience and outcomes. An open learning culture will be fostered which will ensure that learning is identified, and as well as learning from excellent practice. The post holder will play a key role in the dissemination of learning as well as the provision of intelligence to support relevant quality improvement initiatives.
The post holder will provide support to ensure that the Learning from Deaths programme of work is maintained and developed according to local and national requirements. The post holder will ensure appropriate triangulation of cases for example, between HMC referrals, formal complaints, and reviews being undertaken within the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). The post holder will be responsible for ensuring any lessons to be learned as a consequence of the Learning from Deaths processes, are identified and shared with the relevant key stakeholders including the contribution to and attendance at various governance forums across the Trust.
Working for our organisation
Our Poppy’s Promise Commitment
We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.
We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.
Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.
By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.
Hospital Transformation Programme (HTP)
Our Service will relocate to The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital in 2028 as part of HTP. This move will bring specialist services together in a modern, purpose-built facility to improve patient care and team experience.
We are actively recruiting, and successful candidates will be expected to move with the Service in early 2028. The relocation will follow a formal management of change process, including full consultation and support for staff.
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