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Employer South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Nexus House Town CRAWLEY Salary £27,485 - £30,162 NA Salary period Yearly Closing 05/08/2025 23:59 NHS AfC: Band 4South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SECAmb) has a vision to ‘support our staff to provide a caring, high quality and efficient urgent and emergency care service to our communities’. We are rated ‘Good’ for care by the Care Quality Commission and while the other areas under their most recent report require improvement, our aim is to continually improve and to reach outstanding across all areas of the Trust. Our 4,000+ workforce provide services to 4.9m people across Kent, Surrey, Sussex and North East Hampshire. We handle over 1 million calls to 999 and 1 million calls to NHS 111 every year. More information regarding our services and locations can be found on our website. Job overviewThe Datix team are responsible for the running of the Patient Safety Systems currently Datix Web system and DCIQ system on a day-to-day basis around the Trust. This involves liaising with managers and staff to resolve queries. • The department is responsible for reporting on incidents and risk, looking at this data and analysing trends within the organisation. To play a key trust-wide role in assisting in the management of incidents, risks, safety alerts, complaints, and safeguarding modules and administrating the future claims and mortality modules on the Patient Safety System currently involving Datix Web and DatixCloudIQ (DCIQ). Main duties of the job• Day-to-day administration of the Patient Safety System currently Datix Web system, DCIQ system, and any office and administrative systems in use by the department. • To setup, modify and close users of the system based on access requirements and relevant access needs considering Information Governance requirements, security protocols, relevant laws, and trust policies. • To set up, modify and maintain reporting throughout the Datix Web and DCIQ applications. This includes in this is all Incident, Risks, the Learning From Patient Safety Events (LFPSE) and the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF), Duty of Candour and any other ad-hoc reports that maybe required by managers.Please refer to Job Description for full details Working for our organisationOption to join NHS pension scheme A minimum 27 days' holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service. Personal and professional development and training opportunities. Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes. Access to occupational health and counselling services. Back up buddy App Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals. Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesThe successful applicant will support in the maintaining the patient safety system as problems or new requirements are identified, including any bug fixing and any change requests. Fault logging, maintenance, and intervention in conjunction with IT. Person specificationQualifications- Good general education (5 GCSE, A to C) or equivalent - Advanced IT and typing skills - Qualification in the specialist area of governance- Risk Management - Trained in the use of Datix/other risk management system. Knowledge- Working with Microsoft-based Office systems - Ability to analyse statistical information and reports to a high standard with good accuracy - Ability to develop and deliver specialist training to staff across the organisation. Patient Safety knowledge and up to date information into recent patient safety problems within the NHS. - Co-ordinating CAS Alerts - Working with the Reporting Systems (NRLS/LFPSE) Experience- Experience of working as a team, in a busy environment and being able to multi-task effectively and raise concerns to the manager. - Experience in patient safety and the closure of incidents - Experience of working for NHS Trust/Independent Healthcare organisation Skills- Exchanging verbal or written communication with sensitive information with a range of staff across the organisation and other trusts. - Ability to be able to concentrate for long periods whilst inputting, monitoring and checking data, document and reports often containing complex, sensitive and confidential information. Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated. Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination. Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff. In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable. Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants. As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy. The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer - a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds. We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups. The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people - including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes - including the interview - are fair and equitable. We are a committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role. When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process. Please note that under our Trust policies, we're unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old. The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this. Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact [emailprotected] stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this. When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history. Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion. Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly. Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible. Follow our recruitment on Twitter @SECAmbRecruit and check out our Facebook page - SECAmb NHS Recruitment. You can also find us on Linkedin under South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust. We understand that AI tools can be useful for generating ideas or structuring your application. However, any content submitted must reflect your own experiences, skills, and understanding. Applications that are generated wholly or in large part by AI, without personalisation or accuracy, may be excluded from consideration. We value honesty, authenticity, and integrity in the recruitment process and expect all applicants to uphold these principles. If you are a current SECAmb employee, by applying for this position, if successful you will move to the terms and conditions associated with the post. Any unsocial hours payments will be paid under the Section 2 agreement of agenda for change. Section 2 unsocial hours will need to be claimed via your monthly timesheet. More information regarding section 2 can be found in the Agenda for Change handbook and on the our dedicatedSection 2 page on The Zone. Employer certification / accreditation badgesThis post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions. Mark Haydon-Divisional Quality Lead (Kent and Medway)#J-18808-Ljbffr