Patient Safety Partners

Job summary

The way the NHS understands and learns from incidents is changing. In 2019 NHS England, the organisation that manages all NHS Trusts, shared a new plan called the Patient Safety Strategy.

Listening to our patients is a key part of this strategy. One of the main parts of this is creating a new role, called the Patient Safety Partner. This is a new role across the NHS, and more information about it nationally can be found here.

The Patient Safety Partner, or PSP, will work closely with the people in the Trust whose job is to keep patients safe. They will act as the patient voice in meetings with senior leaders and help to develop projects and programmes aimed at making a patients experience of GOSH even better.

We're aiming to have 4 PSPs at GOSH. 2 young people, who are current or former patients, and two parents or carers, who have experience of helping to support their loved one through treatment. The aim is for each of the 4 PSPs to complete two days a month of work supporting GOSH's patient safety programmes. These PSPs will use their lived experience to help us develop our safety programmes in the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Some examples of what the work might look like might include:

• Be part of project teams working to improve safe care and our systems
• Talking with patients and staff about safety and what matters to them
• Help us understand what we do well and how we can do this more of the time
• Help develop patient safety information resources, like guides and checklists
• Acting as the patient voice on improvement projects
• Support some of the patient safety training of staff
• Join meetings with the executive team and senior managers to check and challenge
• Joining interview panels for staff patient safety roles
• In future, supporting the safety team when reviewing incident

There role pays up to £150 a day, or £75 for a half day's work. We're looking for a maximum of two days a month involvement from our PSPs. This can be split across the month to suit your needs. All the details are available in the role descriptions .

About us

GOSH is committed to recruiting the best person for the job, based solely on their ability and individual merit as measured against the criteria for the role; through a process that is fair, open, consistent and free from bias and discrimination.

We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture where all staff are valued, respected and acknowledged. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, disability status or length of time spent unemployed.

We particularly welcome applications from BAME communities, people with disabilities and/or long-term health conditions and LGBT+ community members.

We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and consistently. We are proud to be accredited as a Disability Confident Employer, a member of Business Disability Forum and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.

We have active and Executive supported BAME, LGBT+ and Allies, Disability and Long-Term Health Conditions and Women's staff networks. Staff networks are employee-led groups formed around interests, issues and a common bond or background. Staff network members create a positive and inclusive work environment at Great Ormond Street Hospital by actively contributing to the Trust's mission, values and efforts specific to inclusion. All of our staff networks are open to any employee.