Patient Safety Partner

at  NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board

We have an exciting opportunity for two highly enthusiastic and passionate individuals to join the Kent and Medway ICB as Patient Safety Partners. These new roles were created to help improve patient safety within Kent and Medway.
Patient Safety Partners (PSPs) are actively involved in designing safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation. This includes roles in safety governance, such as sitting on relevant committees to support compliance monitoring and addressing safety issues, and providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning and change. Additionally, PSPs play a key role in the development and implementation of relevant strategy and policy.
Patient Safety Partners will ensure that any committee or group of which they are a member considers and prioritizes the perspectives of service users, patients, carers, and families, and champions a diversity of views. It is essential for the PSPs to comply with relevant policies and maintain strict confidentiality in respect to discussions and information when required.

A Patient Safety Partner (PSP) is a non-ICB employee who supports the organisation in improving patient safety. They bring an independent perspective and are involved, as an equal partner, in a wide range of activities and programmes.

• Attendance at relevant Quality and Safety committees and forums to contribute to and support compliance with monitoring and improvement.
• Acting as an adviser to the Patient Safety and Learning team in the development and delivery of the Patient Safety Strategy.
• Putting forward views on behalf of the wider Community/Groups of Patients/Service Users (not own opinion only) through the Patient Safety and Learning team.
• Evaluating a range of information and evidence and communicating with senior leaders about strategic issues, as an advocate for patient safety.
• Championing Quality and Safety improvements to support the ICB`s in implementation of the relevant strategy and policy.

Due to the ICB`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.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.
We work with staff to agree objectives through regular supervision, annual appraisal, and access to training opportunities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity. In order to reflect the diversity of our population, we positively encourage applications from all areas of the community regardless of gender, race, faith, disability, age or sexual orientation.
The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this.
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