Patient Safety Partner

The role of a Patient Safety Partner (PSP) is to support the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation and will be involved in key projects related to patient safety.
The salary is £75 per half a day. At The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, our Patient Safety Partners will reflect the voice and needs of the people that use our hospital and services to help us develop safer services in partnership with patients, families and carers.
PSPs will sit on committees to support safety improvement by exploring how safety issues should be addressed and providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning and improvement.
PSPs will also be involved in the development and implementation of relevant strategy and policy.
The successful candidate(s) will need to comply with relevant policies and maintain strict confidentiality in respect to discussions and information when required.
Main duties of the jobAttendance at relevant Quality and Safety committees to contribute to and support compliance with monitoring and improvement.Acting as an adviser/critical friend to the Clinical teams in the development and delivery of the Patient Safety Strategy.Putting forward views on behalf of the wider Community/Groups of Patients/Service Users through the Patient Experience team.Evaluating a range of information and evidence and communicating with senior leaders about strategic issues, as an advocate for patient safety.Championing Quality and Safety improvements to support the Trust in implementation of the relevant strategy and policy.About usThe Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year.
We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.
We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year.
Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Job responsibilitiesDUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Be an active member of the Patient Safety Committee, whose responsibilities include the review and analysis of safety data.Champion a culture of just & fair blame in response to learning from patient safety incidents.Promote a culture across the organisation and beyond of openness and transparency providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning at an organisational level, acting as a critical friend and bringing peer challenge.Support the development and implementation of the patient safety incident response framework and accompanying strategies.Participate in recruitment of key roles with responsibility for patient safety.Be involved in patient safety improvement projects.Take a key role in the delivery of patient safety syllabus training across the Christie.Deliver patient safety module of Trust Induction.Participate in investigation oversight groups e.g.
Friday FOCUS, Patient Safety Improvement Group and Executive Review Groups as appropriate.Hold an active role in supporting the safety governance systems across the Christie.PSPs should ensure that any committee/group of which they are a member considers and prioritises the service user, patient, carer and family involvement and champions diversity and inclusion.
Further detail on specific roles is provided in individual task descriptions.
These include the time commitment for specific roles and frequency of meetings where appropriate.
PSPs will be required to comply with relevant organisational policies and maintain strict confidentiality in respect to discussions and information when required.
Skills and experienceUnderstanding of and broad interest in patient safety.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 with senior leaders about strategic issues, as an advocate for patient safety.Ability to provide a patient, carer, or lay perspective and to put forward views on behalf of the wider community/groups of patients.Experience of championing health improvements; able to be a critical friend.Interaction with multiple stakeholders at senior management level.Experience of working in partnership with healthcare organisations or programmes.Sound judgement and an ability to be objective.Personal integrity and commitment to openness, inclusivity and high standards.TrainingThe Christie will invest in training its patient safety partners in the patient safety syllabus to the relevant level, currently 2, as a minimum, with ongoing access to training and development as required for the role.
Mandatory trainingInformation governanceEquality and diversitySafeguarding Level 1National Patient Safety Syllabus Levels One and TwoPlanning and OrganisingAbility to plan time to prepare for meetings and undertake any other activities required as part of the role.
To attend PSP support meetings and training events.
PersonalAdhere to the principles of the PSP agreement.
Inform relevant person if unable to attend meetings or undertake any other identified activities.
Functional Requirements of the roleAbility to travel to and from the main Christie site in Withington, Greater Manchester.Ability to use Microsoft Applications to an acceptable level including MS Teams, Word, Outlook.Fluent in English, written and speaking (English does need to be primary language or native language).Person SpecificationQualificationsEducated to GCSE Level or equivalent.Good level of written and spoken English.Legal, Health, Data Science, Research or engagement/involvement experience/background.Lived patient/carer experience of health and/or care.ExperienceExperience of championing health improvements; able to be a critical friend.Experience of working in partnership with healthcare organisations or programmes.Able to communicate with a broad range of stakeholders.SkillsAbility 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 with senior leaders about strategic issues, as an advocate for patient safety.Ability to provide a patient, carer, or lay perspective and to put forward views on behalf of the wider community/groups of patients.Competent in using Microsoft Office and Excel and the internet.KnowledgeAble to demonstrate understanding of NHS Patient Safety Strategy, Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.Able to demonstrate experience of engagement and involvement of patients & carers in healthcare improvement.ValuesSound and rationale judgement and an ability to remain objective in analysis of information.Acts with integrity.Committed to the principles of openness and transparency.Acts in a way that is inclusive of all.Ability to interpret a range of evidence to formulate a point of view beyond one's own opinion; avoiding bias.OtherCommit to role for minimum of 12 months on ad hoc basis.Flexibility to participate in varied activities to fulfil the role.Demonstrates an ability to represent various groups offering insight beyond one's own experience or point of view.Disclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.
Patient Safety Specialist & Head of Risk
Depending on experience £75 per half a day

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