Can you provide Charity-wide oversight, leadership and direction within Patient Safety?
Our Charity
We are St Andrew's. We are a mental health charity, and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.
We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.
Come and join us and support us to help people transform their lives.
The role
This is a senior leadership role which will report to the Deputy Director of Nursing and Quality and work closely with the Executive Director of Nursing and Quality to provide strong professional leadership across the scope of the patient safety and quality agenda to ensure high quality safe clinical care is delivered consistently across the Charity.
You will work collaboratively to lead the direction of Charity Quality Strategy ensuring frameworks are in place with effective processes, systems and training to support our people to implement these frameworks to ensure safe, high-quality care for patients. Your responsibilities will include:
- Providing patient safety expertise and leadership throughout the Charity
- Working closely with colleagues to develop the culture of care at St Andrew’s aligned to the principles of a Just and Learning organisation.
- Leading on the implementation and embedding of the Patient Safety incident response framework (PSIRF).
- Taking overall responsibility for leading and developing patient safety strategies, policies and activities across the Charity.
- Being the recognised expert leading on patient safety including being able to provide professional and specialist knowledge on patient safety and safety improvement practices.
- Ensuring that systems thinking, human factors understanding and just culture principles are embedded in patient safety processes.
- Maintaining the principles of openness and honesty with patients and their families, providing leadership across the organisation on Duty of Candour obligations.
About you
You will have significant experience of working within the Patient Safety field with high level knowledge of all current issues, including regulatory requirements related to safety and quality and regulation. You will bring extensive experience of managing and motivating diverse and multi-professional teams and have a strong track record of achieving quality improvements.
You will hold a relevant specialist clinical/healthcare qualification and professional registration.
You will also bring experience of achieving improvements for patients through service transformation involving staff, patients, their families and other stakeholders. You will have both the breadth and depth of skills to fulfil the role described above and strong leadership skills to inspire and lead with a focus on excellence and accountability.
You will also be a role model for the St Andrew’s CARE values and the pillars of our Leadership Commitment including compassionate, person-centred care.
Reward
We offer an excellent benefits package including Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 33 days annual leave (plus bank holidays); Life cover; Electric Car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Healthcare cash plan; Free parking; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications. On-site facilities such as cafes, all set within beautiful grounds.
Interested?
If this sounds like you then we’d love you to apply here. Please contact our Recruitment Team at recruitment@stah.org to arrange an informal discussion or for a copy of the full job description.
Closing date: 6 April 2026
Assessment Date: TBC
