Job summary
Volunteer Role | Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) | Hours per month 8 - 10 Join Us in Shaping Safer Care at Sheffield Children's!
We're rolling out an exciting initiative at Sheffield Children's, the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). Designed to strengthen how we learn from patient safety incidents and improve care for children and young people.
At the heart of this work is the Patient Safety Partner (PSP) role. PSPs bring powerful lived experience and fresh perspectives, working alongside senior leaders and clinical teams to influence real change across the organisation.
We're Looking for Two Inspiring Patient Safety Partners
- One young person (16+) PSP
- One adult PSP
No specialist background is needed--just your insight, passion, and willingness to help shape safer care. We'll tailor the role to your strengths and comfort level, ensuring your involvement feels right for you.
Your Voice Can Spark Change
If you want to make a meaningful difference for children, young people and families, we'd love you to be part of this journey.
Main duties of the job
What You'll Do as a Patient Safety Partner
As this is a brand-new role, it's designed to grow and evolve with you. Your insights, experiences and ideas will help shape how the role develops and how we continue to improve patient safety across Sheffield Children's.Below are the main areas you may be involved in:
- Bring the family voice into safety improvementsWork with care groups and governance leads so that action plans from patient safety investigations
- Join key safety conversationsAttend meetings where safety issues are reviewed and help ensure the patient perspective is included
- Shape improvement work across teamsSupport teams to embed patient and family experience into projects
- Listen, learn and share what mattersTalk with patients, families and colleagues to understand what is working well and where improvements could be made
- Help us recognise strengthsHighlight examples of great practice
- Support how we learn from incidentsWork with teams to strengthen how we reflect and learn after a safety incident
- Review investigation reportsRead patient safety investigation reports and provide feedback from a family and lived-experience point of view
- Support colleague trainingContribute to patient safety training sessions to help colleagues
- Take part in recruitmentJoin interview panels for patient safety roles to ensure we appoint people who value the patient voice
About us
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a national leader in child health combining acute, mental health and community services with leading-edge paediatric specialisms. In 2026, Sheffield Children's marks a momentous milestone: 150 years since our hospital was founded in the heart of the city.
From our beginnings in 1876 to today, our purpose has remained the same: to create a healthier future for children and young people. Our whole-child approach means we support children not just at a moment of need, but throughout their entire health and care journey - whether in hospital, school or at home - with kindness, expertise and unwavering commitment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Sheffield Childrens is trusted to deliver the very best in clinical care, transformative research and accessible community health. Whether its everyday worries, complex conditions or lifesaving interventions, we are here for every child and young person across Sheffield, South Yorkshire and increasingly beyond.
In 2024, we launched our Quality Promise, which sets out what children, young people and families should expect from uswhenever and however they receive care.
The Quality Promise was created by listening closely to personal stories and feedback, ensuring it truly reflects what matters most to children, young people and their families. At its heart is our commitment to delivering safe, kind and outstanding care.
The Patient Safety Partner role is an important part of helping us uphold this promise. By bringing lived experience and the patient voice directly into our work, PSPs strengthen our relationship with children, young people and families and help us become an even stronger, more responsive organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Sheffield Childrens is trusted to deliver the very best in clinical care, transformative research and accessible community health. Whether its everyday worries, complex conditions or lifesaving interventions, we are here for every child and young person across Sheffield, South Yorkshire and increasingly beyond.
In 2024, we launched our Quality Promise, which sets out what children, young people and families should expect from uswhenever and however they receive care.
The Quality Promise was created by listening closely to personal stories and feedback, ensuring it truly reflects what matters most to children, young people and their families. At its heart is our commitment to delivering safe, kind and outstanding care.
The Patient Safety Partner role is an important part of helping us uphold this promise. By bringing lived experience and the patient voice directly into our work, PSPs strengthen our relationship with children, young people and families and help us become an even stronger, more responsive organisation.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and evaluation of a range of information and evidence
- Ability to support discussions with evidence
Desirable
- Experience of being able to bring a unique perspective to meetings and decision-making, possibly from a background that is under-represented in healthcare e.g. young person, ethnic minority community, etc
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Broad understanding, knowledge and interest in patient safety
- Ability to read and write reports
- Ability to communicate to a broad range of colleagues in various meetings both in person and online
- Ability to put forward views of families, patients and lay persons representing diverse communities
Desirable
- Knowledge of the role that personal experience and learning plays in patient safety incidents
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible to work approach
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and evaluation of a range of information and evidence
- Ability to support discussions with evidence
Desirable
- Experience of being able to bring a unique perspective to meetings and decision-making, possibly from a background that is under-represented in healthcare e.g. young person, ethnic minority community, etc
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Broad understanding, knowledge and interest in patient safety
- Ability to read and write reports
- Ability to communicate to a broad range of colleagues in various meetings both in person and online
- Ability to put forward views of families, patients and lay persons representing diverse communities
Desirable
- Knowledge of the role that personal experience and learning plays in patient safety incidents
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible to work approach
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
