Duties and Responsibilities Be an active member of the Patient Safety Committee, whose responsibilities include the review and analysis of safety data. Champion a culture of just & fair blame in response to learning from patient safety incidents. Promote a culture across the organisation and beyond of openness and transparency providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning at an organisational level. Act as a critical friend, bringing peer challenge supporting the development and implementation of the patient safety incident response framework and accompanying strategies. Participate in recruitment of key roles with responsibility for patient safety. Involved in patient safety improvement projects. Take a key role in the delivery of patient safety syllabus training across the Christie, delivering the patient safety module of Trust Induction. Participate in investigation oversight groups e.g., Friday FOCUS, Patient Safety Improvement Group and Executive Review Groups as appropriate. Hold an active role in supporting the safety governance systems across the Christie. Ensure any committee/group considers and prioritises service user, patient, carer, and family involvement and champions diversity and inclusion. Skills and Experience Understanding of and broad interest in patient safety. Ability to communicate well in writing and read comprehensive reports. Ability to understand and evaluate a range of information and evidence. 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 experience of championing health improvements; able to be a critical friend. Interaction with multiple stakeholders at senior management level. Experience of working in partnership with healthcare organisations or programmes. Sound judgement and an ability to be objective. Personal integrity and commitment to openness, inclusivity and high standards. Training The Christie will invest in training its patient safety partners in the patient safety syllabus to the relevant level, currently 2, as a minimum, with ongoing access to training and development as required for the role. Mandatory training includes information governance, equality and diversity, and safeguarding Level 1. National Patient Safety Syllabus Levels One and Two. Planning and Organising Ability to plan time to prepare for meetings and undertake any other activities required as part of the role. To attend PSP support meetings and training events. Personal Adhere to the principles of the PSP agreement. Inform relevant person if unable to attend meetings or undertake any other identified activities. Functional Requirements of the Role Ability to travel to and from the main Christie site in Withington, Greater Manchester. Ability to use Microsoft Applications to an acceptable level including MS Teams, Word, Outlook. Fluent in English, written and speaking (English does need to be primary language or native language).