Patient Safety Partner

Job summary

We are looking to recruit two Patient Safety Partners. Candidates will demonstrate a genuine commitment to developing excellent health services along with an understanding of and broad interest in patient safety. They will be expected to apply their skills, knowledge, and experience to support decision making that will drive forward the Partnership' ambition to improve and embed a strong patient safety culture, through Quality Improvement, Quality Reviews and learning. The successful candidate is required to be able to demonstrate the Trust values, the responsibilities of the job description and person specification.

The Patient Safety Partner (PSP) role is an exciting new and innovative role, a key member of our Patient Safety Team, committed to ensuring the lived experience voice has a positive influence across all levels of the organisation to improve patient safety. NLMHP recognises, values and supports the very important role Patient Safety Partners will play and that their active contributions are integral to the organisation's development and in achieving its aims. The PSP will work with staff as equal partners to influence and improve the governance and leadership of safety within the Trusts.

As part of the Patient Safety Team and with close working relationships with the Service User Experience and Engagement Team, the PSP will be fully supported with training provided.

Main duties of the job

• The main role of the Patient Safety Partner is to ensure that the lived experience voice is heard and embedded within the organisations, with the core purpose of improving safety and quality.
• The Patient Safety Partner will be to work with staff across both Trusts to ensure that we prioritise the safety requirements of our patients, thereby helping to eliminate avoidable incidents and serious incidents and improving the quality of our services.
• The Patient Safety Partner will co-lead on the development and delivery of staff training in relation to patient safety, lead on patient safety-related projects, and ensure involvement of experts by experience in patient safety processes and practices.

About us

The North London Mental Health Partnership, [the Partnership of Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust (BEH) and Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust (C&I)]'s ambition is to offer cutting-edge local, preventative, co-produced, person-centred mental health and wellbeing support to our service users and communities. We are committed to working with service users, carers and partners to improve the mental health of everyone in North London. This will mean supporting people to be resilient and have good mental health, and we will offer early intervention for those with mental health problems to prevent these problems worsening. The Partnership will create a united and powerful voice championing mental health and mental health services within North London and highlighting the rights and needs of our service users.

The North London Mental Health Partnership (NLMHP), a partnership between Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust and Camden and Islington Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to placing the voice of people with lived experience of our services, as a service user, family member or carer of service users, at the centre of its drive to improve patient safety across both organisations.

Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

St Ann's Hospital

St Ann's Road

London

N15 3TH

Employer's website

http://www.beh-mht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barnet, Enfield & Haringey Mental Health NHS Trust

Address

St Ann's Hospital

St Ann's Road

London

N15 3TH

Employer's website

http://www.beh-mht.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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