Patient Safety Partner Lead

Job overview

Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) is committed to delivering safe, compassionate and personalised care. Central to this commitment is ensuring that the experiences and perspectives of patients, carers and families inform how we learn, improve and make decisions about patient safety.

We are seeking an innovative and passionate Patient Safety Partner Lead, to provide strategic leadership, support the implementation of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and strengthen the involvement of people with lived experience in patient safety governance, learning and improvement.

The post holder will work across the Trust to ensure that patient, carer and family voices influence how we learn from incidents, improve services and create a positive safety culture.

This is a unique opportunity to shape a nationally important area of patient safety practice within one of England's largest providers of mental health, learning disability and autism services.

Main duties of the job

The Patient Safety Partner Lead will:

• Lead the development, implementation and evaluation of the Trust's Patient Safety Partner programme.
• Lead, supervise and develop the PSP cohort, ensuring effective deployment.
• Support delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) and the Trust's patient safety strategy.
• Ensure lived experience informs patient safety governance, learning and improvement activity.
• Provide expert advice and constructive challenge to support service improvement and organisational learning.
• Facilitate workshops, engagement events and co-production activities involving patients, carers, families and staff.
• Support Patient Safety Partner involvement in patient safety committees, governance forums and improvement programmes.
• Analyse feedback, insights and themes to identify opportunities for improvement and influence decision-making.
• Develop mechanisms to evaluate and demonstrate the impact of Patient Safety Partner involvement on quality and safety outcomes.
• Build effective relationships with community organisations, voluntary sector partners and national patient safety networks.
• Represent TEWV internally and externally in relation to Patient Safety Partner development and lived experience leadership.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

At TEWV, we are committed to improving the lives of the people we serve through high-quality care, continuous learning and meaningful partnership working.

Our values of Respect, Compassion and Responsibility underpin everything we do. We are committed to co-production and believe that people with lived experience have a unique and valuable contribution to make to patient safety, service improvement and organisational learning.

We recognise that expertise comes from a range of experiences and welcome applications from people whose lived experience has been gained through:

• Using mental health, learning disability or autism services.
• Supporting family members or caring for others.
• Peer support, advocacy or community leadership.
• Voluntary or third-sector organisations.
• Service user, carer or involvement networks.
• Local, regional or national lived experience programmes.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued, respected and able to contribute.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further detailed information to ensure that you meet the role criteria before applying.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.

This job advert may close early if a high volume of applications have been received. If interested, please apply for this post as soon as possible.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.