Serious Incident Investigator

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust has a Quality & Safety Team that support the organisation in delivering high quality, safe care to patients across the region. One function within the team is incident investigation to ensure that lessons are identified and that we are continually improving our services and care.

This post is for 2 colleagues to join the existing team and to support our legal services department with investigation work that feeds into coronial processes.

Full training will be provided however, the successfull applicant should ideally have experience of the NHS patient safety investigation process with relevant and current CPD in their application form.

Applications are encouraged from those with a background in Police work or legal support services.

Further reading RE NHS investigation processess can be found at the following links:

NHS England Patient Safety Incident Response Framework

NHS Patient Safety Syllabus training - elearning for healthcare (e-lfh.org.uk)

This is a vital role to have within the Quality and Safety Teamto allow us to continue to progress the development of the investigations within the ambulance sector. The role is responsible for undertaking serious incident investigations and the associated work including liaison with Trust colleagues, management teams and families.

As these posts will feed into Trust legal processes, support will be provided to the successful applicants RE coronial involvement.