Patient Safety & Risk Manager

How you’ll help us make health happen.

As our Patient Safety and Risk Manager, you’ll play a crucial role in strengthening the systems, behaviours, and culture that keep patients safe every day. During this key transition period, you will provide expert leadership to ensure that our approach to patient safety, learning and risk management is robust, compassionate, and continuously improving.

Key Responsibilities

You will support the delivery of safe, transparent, and effective care by leading on patient safety, incident management, and risk processes across the hospital.

• Leading the implementation and embedding of PSIRF
• Overseeing investigations, learning responses, deep dives and thematic reviews
• Ensuring compliance with Duty of Candour
• Managing and maintaining the Organisational Risk Register
• Providing expert governance, safety and risk reporting to senior committees
• Acting as the hospital’s Data Protection Officer
• Supporting preparation for CQC inspections and external reviews

Key Skills / Qualifications:

We’re looking for someone who can hit the ground running with:

• Significant senior experience in patient safety, governance or risk management
• Strong understanding of PSIRF, risk assessment, and safety learning
• Ability to lead investigations and present data clearly at senior level
• Excellent influencing and relationship-building skills
• Healthcare professional registration and/or risk management qualifications are desirable but not essential.

Part of a Globally Trusted Healthcare Group

When you join King Edward VII, you also become part of Bupa — a global healthcare leader with the scale, stability and expertise of a major international brand. Being backed by Bupa means access to an extensive network of clinical and operational specialists, shared best practice from across the organisation, and the support of well-established systems that help you grow, develop and deliver exceptional care. Our size gives us strength, while our purpose keeps us personal.

We champion diversity and want our people to reflect the communities we serve. Everyone is encouraged to “Be you at Bupa”, and we actively welcome colleagues from all backgrounds and experiences. Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We’re committed to ensuring you’re treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

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