Patient Safety Partner

Are you a service user of Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust’s services or do you live within one of our communities ?
- Would you like to have a voice in how your services are designed and delivered in your area?
- Do you have an interest in making services safer for patients ?

**We are looking for**:

- People with a genuine interest in improving patient safety and promoting a positive patient experience of health services in their local community.
- People from all ethnicities including minority groups, those from BAME and people who have learning disabilities, sensory impairments who would like to be involved. You will be fully supported with your needs to enable you to contribute fully to this role.
- People who want to help others and feel that the service user/patients’ voice should be valued by those providing health and care services to our community.

As part of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy (2019), we are looking to recruit 4 Patient Safety Partners who will be vital to taking patient safety improvement initiatives forward. You will have the opportunity to work on team projects both within inpatient areas and in the community as well as representing the ‘patients’ voice’ at senior meetings with the support from the Lead Patient Safety Specialist.
- Attendance at senior trust meetings (you will always be supported) including the safety and quality committee meeting where safety information is discussed.
- Given a voice to ensure that the service user’s perspective is heard and considered
- Participation in a supportive online forum to discuss your progress with patient safety initiatives you are involved with along with your fellow Patient Safety Partners.
- Opportunities to share ideas to improve the experiences of service users, and support to take these ideas forward
- To be ‘part of the team’ working with health professionals in the community and on inpatient areas to improve patient safety eg. contributing to the design and content of patient information online and via leaflets; introducing new ways of working; helping to change patient environments to make them safer and a better experience for service users
- Involvement with CWP Education in the design and development of staff patient safety training
- Participation in the new National Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) that is being implemented within CWP. Providing patient insights to enable maximum learning for staff will make you a valued part of this work.

CWP provides health and care services for local people, including mental health, learning disability, community physical health and all-age disability care - including the provision of three GP surgeries.

Our aim is to help people to be the best they can be, adopting a compassionate, person-centred approach to everything we do. We were recently rated as Outstanding for Caring by the Care Quality Commission with a Good rating overall.

We have been recognised by the Health Service Journal as one of the top places to work in the health service for the last two years running. CWP also scored the highest in the north west (among mental health, learning disability and community Trusts) for staff “recommending CWP as a place to work” in the NHS Staff Survey 2020.

We have services across Wirral and Cheshire, as well as Trafford, Warrington, Bolton, Halton and Liverpool - and provide specialist services for the North West as a whole.

CWP are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer.

Please download a copy of the job description for full details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification)andvalues.

CWP recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.

If your disability meets the definition set out in the Equality Act 2010, and you can show that you meet the ‘essential’ criteria described in the person specification for an available position, please answer ‘YES’ to the question: ‘Do you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme?’ Please also inform the team if you have any special support needs to be considered as part of the interview and selection processes.

All new clinical support staff will be required to have completed or working towards the Care Certificate (CWP In-house 2 day training to be completed within 6 months of start date).

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £13 per year ap