Job summary
- Main area
- Volunteer
- Grade
- Volunteer
- Contract
- Voluntary
- Hours
- Part time - 2 hours per week (Volunteer Post - 8 to 10 hours per month)
- Job ref
- 425-26-7869641
- Employer
- Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- Volunteer - unpaid role
- Closing
- 01/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Patient Safety Partner (Volunteer)
Volunteer
Job overview
Volunteer Role | Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) | Hours per month 8 - 10
Join Us in Shaping Safer Care at Sheffield Children’s!
We’re rolling out an exciting initiative at Sheffield Children's, the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF). Designed to strengthen how we learn from patient safety incidents and improve care for children and young people.
At the heart of this work is the Patient Safety Partner (PSP) role. PSPs bring powerful lived experience and fresh perspectives, working alongside senior leaders and clinical teams to influence real change across the organisation.
We’re Looking for Two Inspiring Patient Safety Partners
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One young person (16+) PSP
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One adult PSP
No specialist background is needed—just your insight, passion, and willingness to help shape safer care. We’ll tailor the role to your strengths and comfort level, ensuring your involvement feels right for you.
Your Voice Can Spark Change
If you want to make a meaningful difference for children, young people and families, we’d love you to be part of this journey.
Main duties of the job
What You’ll Do as a Patient Safety Partner
As this is a brand‑new role, it’s designed to grow and evolve with you. Your insights, experiences and ideas will help shape how the role develops and how we continue to improve patient safety across Sheffield Children’s.
Below are the main areas you may be involved in:
- Bring the family voice into safety improvements
Work with care groups and governance leads so that action plans from patient safety investigations - Join key safety conversations
Attend meetings where safety issues are reviewed and help ensure the patient perspective is included - Shape improvement work across teams
Support teams to embed patient and family experience into projects - Listen, learn and share what matters
Talk with patients, families and colleagues to understand what is working well and where improvements could be made - Help us recognise strengths
Highlight examples of great practice - Support how we learn from incidents
Work with teams to strengthen how we reflect and learn after a safety incident - Review investigation reports
Read patient safety investigation reports and provide feedback from a family and lived‑experience point of view - Support colleague training
Contribute to patient safety training sessions to help colleagues - Take part in recruitment
Join interview panels for patient safety roles to ensure we appoint people who value the patient voice
Working for our organisation
Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a national leader in child health combining acute, mental health and community services with leading-edge paediatric specialisms. In 2026, Sheffield Children’s marks a momentous milestone: 150 years since our hospital was founded in the heart of the city.
From our beginnings in 1876 to today, our purpose has remained the same: to create a healthier future for children and young people. Our whole-child approach means we support children not just at a moment of need, but throughout their entire health and care journey – whether in hospital, school or at home – with kindness, expertise and unwavering commitment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Sheffield Children’s is trusted to deliver the very best in clinical care, transformative research and accessible community health. Whether it’s everyday worries, complex conditions or life‑saving interventions, we are here for every child and young person across Sheffield, South Yorkshire and increasingly beyond.
In 2024, we launched our Quality Promise, which sets out what children, young people and families should expect from us—whenever and however they receive care.
The Quality Promise was created by listening closely to personal stories and feedback, ensuring it truly reflects what matters most to children, young people and their families. At its heart is our commitment to delivering safe, kind and outstanding care.
The Patient Safety Partner role is an important part of helping us uphold this promise. By bringing lived experience and the patient voice directly into our work, PSPs strengthen our relationship with children, young people and families and help us become an even stronger, more responsive organisation.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding and evaluation of a range of information and evidence
- Ability to support discussions with evidence
Desirable criteria
- Experience of being able to bring a unique perspective to meetings and decision-making, possibly from a background that is under-represented in healthcare e.g. young person, ethnic minority community, etc
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Broad understanding, knowledge and interest in patient safety
- Ability to read and write reports
- Ability to communicate to a broad range of colleagues in various meetings both in person and online
- Ability to put forward views of families, patients and lay persons representing diverse communities
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of the role that personal experience and learning plays in patient safety incidents
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Flexible to work approach
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Taylor
- Job title
- Patient Safety Co-Ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01143058193
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