Patient Safety Partner

Job summary

Join us as a Patient Safety Partner and make a real difference to our services.

This is an evolving role developed by NHS England to strengthen patient safety across healthcare in the UK. Patient safety partners can be patients, carers, family members, or members of the public - including NHS staff from other organisations. We welcome people from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities, including those living with different conditions, to ensure a wide range of voices are heard.

As a Patient Safety Partner, you'll work alongside our staff, volunteers, patients, and families to help shape safer, kinder, and more person-centred care. Your voice matters and by sharing your experiences and perspectives, you'll play a vital role in making changes that truly enhance patient safety across our hospitals. This is a unique opportunity to influence how care is delivered, ensuring it reflects the needs, wants, and preferences of the people we serve.

Main duties of the job

The role descriptor provides a summary of the role and main duties of a Patient Safety Partner at MFT.

Involving patients and the public in helping us to shape, understand and improve patient safety is a crucial part of MFT being able to deliver high-quality, safe care with excellent outcomes and experiences and the Patient Safety Partner (PSP) plays a key role in this.

This includes:

• Contributing to governance structures such as safety and quality committees
• Supporting oversight of compliance, learning from incidents, and strategic improvements
• Reviewing and advising on policies and strategies that impact patient safety
• Promoting the patient, carer, and service user voice in decision-making
• Involvement in patient safety investigations and improvement projects
• Participating in training and development sessions relating to safety

The expectation of this role is two days (approx 15 hours) per month paid at a rate of £150 per day.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.