Patient Safety Partner

The Patient Safety Partner (PSP) is a new and exciting role to work with the trust to enhance our response to incidents and you can shape what your involvement will look like.

A PSP is actively involved in the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation. This includes in safety governance e.g. sitting on relevant committees to support compliance monitoring and how safety issues should be addressed and providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning and change - and in the development and implementation of relevant strategy and policy. The PSP should ensure that any committee / group of which they are a member considers and priorities the service user, patient, carer and family perspective and champions a diversity of views.

As a PSP you will join one or more governance committees concerned with patient safety, risk and quality.

**Your role will be to**:

- Bring the voice and needs of patients, families, carers and the public, into committees in a way that provides appropriate challenge and fosters learning and change.
- Consider complex issues affecting patient safety across the Trust that directly inform relevant Trust strategy and policy.
- Interact with other PSPs and staff in a large multi-professional meeting format.
- Be prepared to put forward ideas of who PSPs can support the improvement of patient safety across all three organisations and work with staff to out these in place.

**Other essential tasks**:

- Receive and read meeting papers prior to attending (approx. half a day)
- Attend a meeting (approx. half a day a week).
- Attend a pre meet and post-meeting de-brief with the Trust’s Patient Safety Specialist (approx. 1 hr).
- Maintain the strict confidentiality of the meeting, its members and content at all times both pre, during and post meetings.

As the role develops there will be the opportunity to get involved in other activities to support patient safety, for example supporting Trust staff with investigating incidents.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence, providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We're responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time'.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

**Disclosure and Barring Service**:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.

**The changes mean that**:

- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.

A Standard DBS check will be required for this volunteering post.

The DBS check is free of charge for volunteers.