Patient Safety Partner

Main area Patient Safety Grade Volunteer:
Volunteer Contract Voluntary: 12 months (This is a role that attracts renumeration of £150 per 8 hours involvement.) Hours

• Flexible working
• Other

2 hours per week (Minimum attend the Trust Patient Safety Group once a month plus involvement in other patient Safety improvement work.) Job
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Site Trust Headquarters, University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust Town Bristol Salary £150 for 8 hours Patient Safety involvement work. Closing 08/03/2026 23:59

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We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under‑represented within the Trust.

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University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is looking for a new Patient Safety Partner to help us strengthen how we learn from patient experience and improve the safety of care across our organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity for people from all backgrounds and communities to contribute their lived experience, insight, and passion for safer, fairer healthcare.

The NHS Patient Safety Strategy and the Framework for Involving Patients in Patient Safety recognise the vital role that patients, families, carers, and members of the public play in improving safety. Patient Safety Partners help ensure that decisions about safety are shaped by real experiences and diverse perspectives.

We welcome people who bring:

• Personal or family experience of healthcare – positive or challenging
• Insights into how care affects different communities
• A commitment to fairness, inclusion, and improving patient experience

• Approximately 8 hours per month
• Initial 12‑month commitment to the role.
• An involvement fee is offered and any reimbursement for agreed out‑of‑pocket expenses

We aim to make the role flexible and accessible. Meetings can be attended remotely, and support is available for anyone with additional needs.

Contact:
Julie Crawford Head of Patient Safety, University Hospital Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust. Email:  Tel .

The Patient Safety Partners will be able to contribute their unique perspective of how patient safety issues can impact service users and enable this to become a core element of our patient safety learning and improvement activities. They will be able to communicate with a range of NHS staff over strategic issues and provide a patient carer or lay perspective.

Willingness to represent a view of patients, carers and the wider public on all matters, and to share perspective and experience.

As a Patient Safety Partner, you will:

• Attend the monthly Patient Safety Group meeting (usually via MS Teams)
• Join other quality and governance meetings where your perspective will add value
• Review and comment on meeting papers or patient safety materials
• Represent the views of patients, carers and the wider public
• Influence safety improvement projects by sharing your insight and experience

We want a team of Partners who reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. This includes diversity of age, culture, ethnicity, disability, gender identity, socio‑economic background, and lived healthcare experiences.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.

UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are…