The post holder will work with the Quality and Patient Safety Lead and other Quality and Patient Safety Advisors to develop, deliver, implement and evaluate a comprehensive quality and safety programme with associated structures, policies and processes.

Facilitating and supporting the implementation of National Standards set by the Health Information and Quality Authority and the Mental Health Commission.

• To ensure that the Quality and Patient Safety function is aligned with the HSE Patient Safety Strategy 2019–2024, supporting a systems-based approach to harm reduction, learning and improvement.
• To provide strategic leadership in the implementation of the Incident Management Framework (2020), ensuring timely notification, review, analysis, escalation and learning from incidents.
• To embed proactive governance of risk in line with the HSE Enterprise Risk Management Policy (2023), ensuring risks are identified, assessed, controlled and escalated through approved structures.
• To support organisational compliance with the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 and the National Open Disclosure Framework, ensuring a culture of transparency, accountability and person-centred communication.
• To provide assurance that Quality and Patient Safety processes meet statutory and regulatory standards set by HIQA and the Mental Health Commission.

To drive core programmes of work in quality, safety and risk management, including:

• Risk management,
• Incidents and serious incidents
• Quality improvement
• Audit,
• Service user and community involvement;
• Tracking the implementations of recommendations
• Patient safety and service improvement
• Monitoring the implementation of recommendations from local and national investigations, reports, reviews and audits.

Candidates must have at the latest date of application: 

        An academic award in Risk Management or Quality in Healthcare at Level 6 (or higher) on the Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) framework or equivalent

OR

 A professional qualification in a health related area

AND

Demonstrated experience applying Incident Management framework.

This includes practical, hands-on work with the Incident Management Framework (2020), Patient Safety Act (2023), open disclosure requirements, and governance standards set by HIQA/MHC.

Proven competence in risk management within healthcare services:

Experience must include risk assessment, risk registers, risk escalation, risk reporting aligned with the Enterprise Risk Management Policy 2023.  

Supporting risk-based decision-making aligned with policy, regulatory & legislative requirements.

Experience supporting incident management processes

Including oversight of incident reviews, quality assurance, data analysis, and  Implementation of learning and recommendations.

Ability to support staff/services in implementing statutory and regulatory obligations

Particularly those relating to patient safety, quality improvement, audit, Freedom of Information, GDPR, and the Enterprise Risk Management Policy (2023).

Demonstrated capacity to build quality patient safety competency within care groups.

Including delivering training, strengthening local competency &participating in quality improvement initiatives.

Candidate with excellent English.

Must demonstrate high level fluency in written and spoken English language.

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The HSE Dublin and North East Region are an equal opportunities employer.