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Patient Safety Partner | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	12 August 2024
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	Not Defined
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	12 September 2024
Location:	Cambridge, CB2 0QQ
Company:	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6534866/180-V-AD-242028

Summary

Patient Safety Partner



Are you looking support patient safety and improvement without the commitment of specified hours? Would you like to contribute to achieving patient safety related aims and objectives in CUH?

We are looking for current or past patients and service users to represent the voices of our diverse population.



Role Summary

The role of a Patient Safety Partner (PSP) is to enable us to value, listen and provide meaningful involvement opportunities for patients, carers, and families, in the ongoing patient safety work of the organisation. The PSP will support a culture which is ‘patient centred’.



A PSP is actively involved in the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the Trust. This includes roles in safety governance, involvement in compliance monitoring, considering how safety issues should be addressed, involvement in Quality Improvement opportunities and providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning and change. PSPs will contribute to the development and implementation of relevant strategy and policy.

If this interests you, follow the link below to access the application form.

https://careers.cuh.nhs.uk/current-vacancies/



If successful, you will be invited for a discussion.

Additional information can be found in the Role Description and the Patient Safety Partner Information document by following the link below:https://careers.cuh.nhs.uk/current-vacancies/

Help improve patient safety in our hospitals

We are looking for Patient Safety Partner (PSP) volunteers to bring the voice and needs of patients, families, carers and the public into our work. This new role is part of a national approach to improving patient safety.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) is a family of hospitals comprising Addenbrooke’s and The Rosie. As part of the NHS, we deliver expert care for patients – locally, regionally and nationally.

You’ll have the opportunity to join different working groups on a sessional basis and may be involved in:

· Service and pathway design– helping to look at how patient safety concerns can be addressed.

· Safety governance- sitting on relevant committees to support compliance monitoring, and providing challenge to ensure learning and change.

· Strategy and policy– making sure patients’ views are considered where changes in care pathways are being considered.

As part of this role you will regularly speak to patients and carers within the hospital, this may include visits to wards and clinics. You will provide an unbiased and uncompromised view of what it feels like to receive care in our hospitals. This will help us understand where changes to our services are needed.

If you have an interest in patient safety and are confident to put forward views on behalf of the wider community, we would love to hear from you.

Patient Safety Partners are actively involved in the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation.

· This includes roles in safety governance by participating in relevant committees (such as the Patient Safety Assurance Group (PSAG), Quality Committee and the Infection Prevention & Control Committee). This may involve compliance monitoring, considering how safety issues should be addressed and providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning and change. PSPs contribute to the development and implementation of relevant strategy and policy.

· The PSP should ensure that any group of which they are a member considers and prioritises the perspective of the people who use our services, their carers and their family members and champions a diversity of views. Further detail is provided below in the “Description of Expected Tasks” section. These include the time commitment for specific roles and frequency of meetings where appropriate.

· The PSP will need to comply with relevant Trust policies and maintain strict confidentiality in respect to discussions and information when required.

· As a PSP, you will be supporting our services on a sessional basis for which your expenses will be reimbursed or time remunerated as agreed. This will not lead to a contract of employment with CUH

As a Patient Safety Partner (PSP), you will join one or more governance committees which are concerned with patient safety, risk and quality.

Your role will be to:

· Bring the voice and needs of patients, families, carers and the public into committees in a way that provides appropriate challenge and fosters learning and change.

· Receive and read meeting papers prior to attending meetings.

· Be prepared to put forward ideas of how PSPs can support the improvement of patient safety across CUH and work with staff to put these in place.

· Maintain strict confidentiality of meetings, its members and content at all times both pre, during and post meetings.

· Participate in training being developed by Health Education England and locally agreed induction and training requirements.

· Interact with other PSPs as needed as part of the role.



As the role develops there may be the opportunity to get involved in other activities to support patient safety.


This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Sep 2024