Job overview
PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VOLUNTARY ROLE
You are not required to provide your employment history for this role, though you may wish to include references to this where this is relevant to the job description and essential criteria.
Please demonstrate your suitability and reasons for applying for this voluntary role in the supporting information section at the end of this application form.
The NHS Patient Safety Strategy (July 2019) recognises the importance of involving patients, their families and carers (and other lay people) in improving the safety of NHS care.
The Patient Safety Partner (PSP) role was developed in response to this and ensures patient involvement in organisational safety, supporting and contributing to healthcare governance and to the management of patient safety processes.
This new role will encompass opportunities for the following:
1. Membership at safety and quality committees whose responsibilities include the review and analysis of safety data (this would involve attendance to our committee meetings such as Patient Safety Steering Group, Patient Experience Steering Group and Learning From Incidents Forums).
2. Involvement in patient safety improvement projects - these are identified through our various patient safety workstreams and have flexibility to be aligned with individuals' areas of interest or experience as service users.
3. Working with organisation boards to consider how to improve safety, this would mean attending our Clinical Governance Committee and accompanying members of our executive and quality teams on "Go and See" Safety Walks. Participation in investigation oversight groups such as our Patient Safety Review Group (PSRG) and where appropriate involvement within our Patient Safety Reviews. Attend both local regional and national Patient Safety Partner meetings/workshops where appropriate.
Main duties of the job
A PSP is actively involved in the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation.
This includes roles 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.
As the PSP you will ensure that any committee/group of which you are a member considers and prioritises the service user, patient, carer and family perspective and champions a diversity of views.
You will need to comply with relevant policies and maintain strict confidentiality in respect to discussions and information when required.
Due to the trust's commitment to safety and continuous improvement, it is likely that the role will evolve over time. These duties will be subject to review; any amendments will be made in consultation and agreement with the PSP.
Working for our organisation
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.
We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.
We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.
Person specification
Essential criteria
* Understanding of and broad interest in patient safety.
* Able to review, digest and comprehend a range of information and opinions.
* Able to think widely about safety, health and wellbeing as well as service delivery and improvement.
* 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 (not own opinion only).
* Willingness to ask pertinent questions.
* Sound judgement and an ability to be objective.
* Personal integrity and commitment to openness, inclusiveness, and high standards.
* Ability to form collaborative, supportive and professional relationships with both clinical and non-clinical staff at all levels.
* Ability to plan time to prepare for meetings and undertake any other activities required as part of the role.
* Adhere to the principles of the role description.
* Ensure that patient confidentiality is always maintained.
* Access to the internet and/or home device suitable for joining virtual meetings.
Desirable criteria
* Experience of championing health improvements; able to be a critical friend.
* Ability to interact with multiple stakeholders at senior management level.
* Experience of working in partnership with healthcare organisations or programmes.
* Support and guide new PSPs where required.
* Take part in local PSP networks as these develop to receive peer support and share learning.
We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:
* Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff.
* Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years.
* An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months).
* Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme.
* Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme.
* An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges.
* Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home.
* Cycle to work scheme.
* Uniform provided (where required).
* On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme.
* On site health and fitness club.
* On site car parking.
* Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
SEASONAL RESPIRATORY VACCINATIONS
We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.
GETTING TO WORK
We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.
The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.
OTHER INFORMATION
If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
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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.
Documents to download
* Patient Safety Partner Role Description (PDF, 384.6KB)
* Patient Safety Partner Person Specification (PDF, 184.6KB)
* Facts about Salisbury (PDF, 214.5KB)
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