Associate Director of Quality; Patient Safety | North NHS Trust

Associate Director of Quality (Patient Safety and Experience) | North Bristol NHS Trust

Employer:

North Bristol NHS

Location:

Bristol, BS10 5NB

Pay:

Contract Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full time

Disability Confident:

No

Closing Date:

29/03/2026

Are you ready to shape patient safety and experience across what will become one of England’s largest Foundation Trusts?

University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust are working together as the NHS Bristol Group, with the ambition to become a single Foundation Trust in Summer 2026. This transformation will enhance outcomes for patients, staff, and our wider communities.

We are seeking an Associate Director of Quality (Patient Safety & Experience) to provide strategic leadership across the Group.

You will drive an integrated approach to human factors, patient safety, and patient experience—embedding safety science, improving experience, and generating insight that supports continuous improvement.

In this highly influential role, you will align people, policy, practice, and partnerships to strengthen how we work and the impact we make.

You’ll join forward‑thinking, ambitious organisations that value innovation, curiosity, and learning.

It’s a dynamic environment with real opportunity to shape our future direction.

Are you ready to make a meaningful difference?

The Patient Safety Specialist will provide leadership, visibility, and expert support to strengthen patient safety culture, clinical risk management, and safety systems in line with NHS England PSIRF. The role depends on strong relationship‑building, influencing culture, and acting as a change agent across internal teams, system partners, and external agencies.

Representing the Trust at strategic forums, the post holder will help align work with wider NHS and integrated care priorities.

A core responsibility is developing and overseeing systems that collect, analyse, and act on patient feedback, ensuring insights drive learning and improvement.

The role will enhance safety mechanisms and work with divisional and corporate teams to embed best practice and compliance with governance and risk standards.

Working with the Associate Director of Quality (Insight, Clinical Effectiveness & Regulation) the post holder will use technology and data‑driven approaches to improve reporting, analysis, risk identification, and patient engagement, supporting the Trust’s Quality Management System.

Given evolving NHS models and Group ambitions, the role requires adaptability, innovation, and awareness of emerging trends in safety science, digital safety, and patient and carer experience.

The post holder will hold clinical registration and a safety‑related qualification, work autonomously, and deputise for the Group Director of Quality when needed.

University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust and North Bristol NHS Trust are collaborating under a Joint Clinical Strategy as the NHS Bristol Group.

During Summer 2026 we aim to become a single Foundation Trust for the benefit of patients, people, population and the public purse.

Together. we employ over 28,000 healthcare professionals across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, and have been positively progressing our Joint Clinical Strategy published in March 2024. Our aim as a Group is to deliver even better care by reducing duplication, investing in frontline services, and strengthening integration across our hospitals and communities.

We are making great progress but there are still barriers to overcome and complexities to work around.

By working together as one team we firmly believe we will be able to do more than ever for the people and communities we serve.

Within the Bristol NHS Group, we know diverse and inclusive environments lead to happier and healthier teams and improved patient care and outcomes.

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are currently underrepresented in NBT’s workforce at Band 8a and above.

These include people from global majority backgrounds, disabled…