Patient Safety Partner

Imperial College Healthcare NHS; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization in Westminster is seeking a Patient safety partner to advocate for patients, collaborate with healthcare staff, and influence patient safety practices. This evolving role welcomes individuals from diverse backgrounds to enhance care quality. Benefits include flexible hours, reimbursement for expenses, and opportunities for career development. Join us in making a real difference in patient safety across our hospitals.

Benefits

Flexible hours

Involvement payments

Ongoing training and support

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Ability to engage with patients and staff effectively.
• Experience advocating for patient needs and perspectives.
• Willingness to contribute to safety governance.

Responsibilities

• Work alongside staff, volunteers, and families.
• Shape patient-centered care and ensure voice is heard.
• Contribute to safety governance committees.

Job description

Responsibilities

• Talking with patients and staff about safety and what matters to them.
• Advocating for patients, carers and families and to ensure that their perspectives and considerations are prioritised.
• Contributing to safety governance by sitting on relevant committees, reviewing and commenting on meeting papers and reports.
• Inputting into how safety issues should be addressed and providing feedback and challenge to enable us to learn and change as an organisation.
• Inputting into any relevant strategies and policies.
• Helping to develop patient safety information resources.

About the role

Here at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, we are excited to recruit another Patient safety partner to join our team of five and to work alongside our staff.

Benefits

• Interesting and engaging opportunities
• Flexible hours, days, times
• Involvement payments and reimbursement for reasonable expenses
• A variety of roles all focused on improving the safety and quality of the services we provide to our patients and communities
• The benefit of being part of our active lay partner community
• A full induction
• Ongoing training and support

Application process

To keep the application process as accessible as possible, we are accepting online applications but also submissions via the application form in the advert (titled 'Application Form'). Please e-mail [email protected] your application form by 14th December.

Working for our organization

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

About the organization

With five world‑renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from northwest London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Join us as a Patient safety partner and make a real difference in our hospitals.

This is an evolving role developed by NHS England to strengthen patient safety across healthcare in the UK. Patient safety partners can be patients, carers, family members, or members of the public - including NHS staff from other organisations. We welcome people from all backgrounds, cultures, and communities, including those living with different conditions, to ensure a wide range of voices are heard.

As a Patient safety partner, you'll work alongside our staff, volunteers, patients, and families to help shape safer, kinder, and more person‑centred care. Your voice matters and by sharing your experiences and perspectives, you'll play a vital role in making changes that truly enhance patient safety across our hospitals. This is a unique opportunity to influence how care is delivered, ensuring it reflects the needs, wants, and preferences of the people we serve.

One of our current Patient safety partners says that "I genuinely feel my input is valued and contributes to positive changes, especially in the various projects we are involved in. It is fulfilling to know that my perspective plays a role in enhancing patient safety practices."

Additional contributions

£5 per day for IT kit/Wi‑Fi/printing/power. Public transport reimbursed at cost; taxis booked in advance and paid by the Trust.