- Have you been a patient in hospital or in the community?
- Or do you have a friend or relative who has been in hospital?
- Are you interested in working in health care?
- Are you keen to use your experience to help other patients have the best and safest experience they can?
If the answer to any of these is yes, then why not apply to volunteer and join us at Alder Hey as a Patient Safety Partner?
What is a Patient Safety Parnter?
We call them “PSPs” for short! It’s a new, exciting role that helps improve patient safety at Alder Hey. You will work closely with our children, young people, families, and staff, so you will go 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 on what they told you is important to them on their behalf at different projects and meetings.
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
Do I need work experience?
Experience isn’t essential however you need a genuine desire to support patient safety improvement so being able to listen to and talk to our patients and families is very important.
We’re aiming to have 4 PSPs at Alder Hey as well as us the Young PSPs. 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
We’re open to PSP’s having different areas of interest and doing different parts of the role as we get that not everyone wants to read reports or join meetings so we’ll make sure you get involved with work and projects you’re interested in and happy to be involved in.
How often do I volunteer?
We would like you to help us two days a month ideally and the days and times that you’ll work can be flexible. We’ll make sure that we fit around you. We’ll provide the training you need to do this role successfully, and you’ll have a buddy who will help and support you and help build plans for your day-to-day work.
So what are you waiting for? Don’t delay, apply today! Alder Hey needs you!
Closing date Sunday 13th October 2024
Interviews Thursday 31st October 2024