Overview
Sirona care & health is working to deliver the National Patient Safety Strategy which looks at building on the foundations of our culture of safety and ensuring the systems we have in place are working effectively to keep patients safe. Patient Safety Partners make a vital contribution to meeting this challenge by becoming an integral advisory member of our meetings and our teams, assessing the quality and safety of our services. It is vital that the people we serve are involved in decisions to ensure our services are safe and of a high quality, and the Patient Safety Partner role is key to ensuring that we are working together on this. In addition their role is to support the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation. The PSP will be involved in key projects related to patient safety. They will reflect the voice and needs of the people that use our community-based health services. Contributing their unique perspective of how patient safety issues can impact service users, they will help us to improve safety and develop safer services in partnership with patients, families and carers.
Responsibilities
* Attend one meeting every month and participate in other activities between meetings.
* Ensure that the patient voice is heard within Sirona care & health, with the core purpose of improving safety and quality.
* Support the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation and be involved in key projects related to patient safety.
* Contribute to decisions that drive forward Sirona care & health’s safety agenda by applying skills, knowledge and experience to support decision making.
* Reflect the voice and needs of people using community-based health services and advocate for patient safety with senior leaders.
Qualifications and attributes
* Genuine commitment to developing excellent health services and an understanding of patient safety.
* Ability to communicate well verbally with senior leaders over strategic issues and provide a patient, carer or lay perspective.
Benefits and terms
The role attracts an involvement payment at meetings and reimbursement for reasonable expenses and are for an 18 month fixed period. Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme.
Equality and inclusion
We welcome and encourage all applicants and are committed to equality of opportunity, fairness and inclusion. We are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce and to reflect the communities we support.
How to apply / contact for informal visits
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find attached to this vacancy. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Chiara Lloyd-Yeates, Job title: Involvement Lead, Email: chiara.lloyd-yeates@nhs.net, Telephone: 07974 283093
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