Patient Safety Partner

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 13 October 2024

Job summary

Patient Safety Partners (PSPs ) is anew exciting role to help improve patient safety at Alder Hey.

We're aiming to have 4 PSPs at Alder Hey. We would like two young people aged about 16 to 18 who are current or former patients, or have had a friend or relative need hospital care, or who are studying some form of health, social care or child development at sixth form or college.

We're also looking for two adults who may have had a child or relative in hospital, or been a patient themselves, or other laypeople including NHS and social care staff from other organisations

Main duties of the job

You'll help to develop and design projects and programmes aimed at making a patients experience and safety at Alder Hey better, making sure that patient safety is at the heart of everything we do.

As this is a new role you'll be involved in developing your day-to-day tasks, co-producing the role, and sharing ideas and experience of the role. You will be working with other PSPs including our Young PSPs who volunteer or are members of our Children and Young People's Forums

About us

As one of Europe's biggest and busiest children's hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions.In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children's medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world's leaders in children's healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children's specialists. Alongside this is ourInnovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children's hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

Date posted

01 October 2024

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience (Voluntary role; reasonable expenses)

Contract

Voluntary

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

411-COR-24-6647888

Job locations

Alder Hey Childrens Hospital

East Prescot Road

Liverpool

L14 5AB

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be working closely with our children, young people, families and staff so you will be going out to see them and talk to them on the wards and departments. Then you will act as the voice for the patients and families and feedback what they told you is important to them on their behalf at different projects and meetings.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Essential

Experience Person has lived experience of being a patient or experience of caring for a relative parent/carer of a patient or experience of advocacy

Person Specification

Essential

Experience Person has lived experience of being a patient or experience of caring for a relative parent/carer of a patient or experience of advocacy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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