Main area Patient Safety Grade Volunteer: Volunteer Contract Voluntary: 12 months (This is a role that attracts renumeration of £150 per 8 hours involvement.) Hours
2 hours per week (Minimum attend the Trust Patient Safety Group once a month plus involvement in other patient Safety improvement work.) Job ref 387-TS6630-LMG
Site Trust Headquarters, University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust Town Bristol Salary £150 for 8 hours Patient Safety involvement work. Closing 08/03/:59
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Job overview University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is looking for a new Patient Safety Partner to help us strengthen how we learn from patient experience and improve the safety of care across our organisation.
This is an exciting opportunity for people from all backgrounds and communities to contribute their lived experience, insight, and passion for safer, fairer healthcare.
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy and the Framework for Involving Patients in Patient Safety recognise the vital role that patients, families, carers, and members of the public play in improving safety. Patient Safety Partners help ensure that decisions about safety are shaped by real experiences and diverse perspectives.
We welcome people who bring:
- Personal or family experience of healthcare - positive or challenging
- Insights into how care affects different communities
- A commitment to fairness, inclusion, and improving patient experience
Role Commitment
- Approximately 8 hours per month
- Initial 12 month commitment to the role.
- An involvement fee is offered and any reimbursement for agreed out of pocket expenses
We aim to make the role flexible and accessible. Meetings can be attended remotely, and support is available for anyone with additional needs.
Contact: Julie Crawford Head of Patient Safety, University Hospital Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust. Email: . Tel .
Main duties of the job The Patient Safety Partners will be able to contribute their unique perspective of how patient safety issues can impact service users and enable this to become a core element of our patient safety learning and improvement activities. They will be able to communicate with a range of NHS staff over strategic issues and provide a patient carer or lay perspective.
Willingness to represent a view of patients, carers and the wider public on all matters, and to share perspective and experience.
As a Patient Safety Partner, you will:
- Attend the monthly Patient Safety Group meeting (usually via MS Teams)
- Join other quality and governance meetings where your perspective will add value
- Review and comment on meeting papers or patient safety materials
- Represent the views of patients, carers and the wider public
- Influence safety improvement projects by sharing your insight and experience
We want a team of Partners who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. This includes diversity of age, culture, ethnicity, disability, gender identity, socio economic background, and lived healthcare experiences.
Working for our organisation University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.
UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward thinking multi award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Patient Safety Partners will be required to attend planned patient safety meetings which will continue to be held remotely and participate in workshops.
Reviewing and commenting on (where relevant) meeting papers.
Service Development and Research The post holder will have the opportunity to contribute a public voice to Patient Safety improvement projects across the organisation.
Communication The post holder will be able to communicate effectively in a number of formal and informal settings and review and comment (where relevant) meeting papers.
Organisation and Planning Ability to plan time to prepare for meetings and undertake activities where agreed.
To attend Patient Safety Partner support meetings and training events.
Information Resources The post holder will need to comply with relevant policies and maintain strict confidentiality in respect to discussions and information where required.
Person specification Knowledge and Experience
- The candidate should possess an understanding or broad interest in improving patient safety within the University Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust
- They will have an understanding of and consideration for equality, diversity and inclusion requirements to ensure patient safety improvements are aimed to keep everyone safer
- It is desirable but not essential that the candidate possess some experience of championing or participating in previous patient or public involvement activities within an NHS organisation and or other public services
Skills and Abilities
- Ability to communicate well in writing and read comprehensive reports
- Ability to understand and evaluate a range of information and evidence
- Confidence to communicate well verbally in a variety of settings
- Ability to provide a patient, carer, or lay perspective and to put forward views on behalf of the wider community/groups of patients (not own opinion only)
- Sound judgement and an ability to be objective
- Personal integrity and commitment to openness, inclusiveness and high standards
Qualifications and Training
- No formal qualification in patient safety is required for this role.
- A comprehensive induction package and training programme will ensure that successful applicants are fully prepared for the role and ongoing support and coaching will be provided by the Patient Safety / Patient Experience team at UHBW.
- The trust's is committed to the continuous improvement of patient safety, it is envisaged that this new Patient Safety Partner role will evolve and develop as part of the wider involvement network within the organisation and the local community it serves.
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
Additional Information
- As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
- The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
- UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
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