Patient Safety Partner

Patient Safety Partner

The closing date is 02 March 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen to become part of our Quality and Safety team as a Patient Safety Partner.

As a Patient Safety Partner (PSP) you will be actively involved in the design of safer healthcare at all levels in the organisation.

Previous applicants need not apply.

This includes roles in safety governance. For example:

• Sitting on relevant committees to support compliance monitoring and how safety issues should be addressed
• Providing appropriate challenge to ensure learning and change
• The development and implementation of relevant strategy and policy.

Additional Information:

• This is a voluntary position (travel expenses paid in line with volunteer policy).
• The successful candidate must register as an UHNM volunteer.
• Recruitment checks (including a DBS check) and mandatory training are required.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co‑created by staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

The Patient Safety Partner should ensure that any committee/group of which they are a member considers and prioritises the service user, patient, carer and family perspective and champions a diversity of views.

Further details on specific roles is provided in individual task descriptions.

These include the time commitment for training, specific roles and frequency of meetings where appropriate. The PSP will need to comply with relevant policies and maintain strict confidentiality in respect to discussions and information when required.

• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office:
  Outlook, Word, Excel and Power Point
• Previous role with a public sector organisation
• Safety related qualification or work experience

• A broad interest in patient safety
• Ability to communicate verbally with an ability to advocate for patient safety, provide a lay perspective
• Ability to ask questions and work collaboratively with all stakeholders
• Ability to read comprehensive reports
• Sound judgement skills and ability to be objective

• Positive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement.
• Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
• Ability to work flexibly around meetings dates and other commitments
• Ability to act with kindness and compassion to others

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.

University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust