Patient Safety Partner
| Posting date: | 19 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £18.75 per hour |
| Additional salary information: | £18.75 an hour |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2026 |
| Location: | Lowestoft, NR32 1DE |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | B9849-114-26 |
Summary
The Patient Safety Partner will reflect the voice and needs of the people that use our community-based health services. Contributing your unique perspective of how patient safety issues can impact service users, you will help us to improve safety and develop safer services in partnership with patients, families and carers. To do this the role will require: Attendance and participation at Quality Committee and other defined patient safety meetings. This will include a requirement for pre reading of documents and reports in advance. Review and comment on any policies, reports or papers that are prepared in relation to patient safety, ensuring patient voice is reflected in the narrative. Involvement in patient safety investigations as a reviewer, making recommendations and ensuring patient and carer voice is heard. Act as an adviser/critical friend to the Patient Safety Team in the development and delivery of the Patient Safety Strategy. Adopt a questioning approach to the information shared at committees and meetings. Put forward views on behalf of the wider Community/Groups of Patients/Service Users (not own opinion only) through the Patient Experience team. Evaluate a range of information and evidence and communicate with senior leaders about strategic issues, as an advocate for patient safety. Champion Quality and Safety improvements to support the organisation in implementation of the relevant strategy and policy. Attend regional and national patient safety forums and groups to ensure strategies, innovation and learning is shared. You may be required to support the recruitment of Patient Safety Partners with other providers across the region. Meetings may require face to face attendance or be held online; the PSP must be comfortable with either approach. To comply with relevant policies and maintain strict confidentiality in respect to discussions and information as required. All roles within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff should consider these as an essential part of their job role. Our Values outline the core behaviours that we can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.