Who is a Patient Safety Partner?

Do you have an interest in becoming involved in how we can develop our health and care services so that they are safer for our patients?

Are you or have you ever been a patient, carer or family member of someone who has used any health and care services?

Are you passionate and interested in Patient Safety?

If your answer is YES, then you can become a Patient Safety Partner (PSP)

Your main role will be to work with us to ensure that we prioritise the safety requirements of our patients thereby maximising the things that go right and minimising the things that go wrong for people receiving our services.

You will work with us in the following way:

• It is important that you participate and join key conversations and meetings within the Trust that address patient safety. You will attend our patient safety meetings and committees.
• Committee’s/meetings may require face to face attendance or may be online, either of which the PSP must be comfortable with this approach
• You will challenge us and the way that we work, be our critical friend
• Provide a questioning approach to the information shared at the Committee’s and meetings
• Representing the patient’s/family voice, to ensure the committee/meeting members are ‘walking in the patient’s shoes’
• Co-designing the developments of Patient Safety initiatives.
• Compliance with relevant policies and maintaining confidentiality.

To apply for the role, please find the application form under Additional Documents and upload as a CV attachment.

For more information or to chat about the role contact: Anastasia.Lungumulenga@solent.nhs.uk or Teresa.Power@solent.nhs.uk