New opportunity to become a Patient Safety Partner at CNWL NHS Trust
CNWL are now looking for a second patient or carer who has experience of physical health services and who have an interest in patient safety. Find out more.
What does a Patient Safety Partner do?
The role of a Patient Safety Partner is to:
- Enable the Trust to value, listen and provide meaningful involvement opportunities for patients, their carers, and families in the ongoing work of the Trust.
- Actively influence the strategic direction of the Trust.
- Support a culture which is ‘patient-centred’.
- Support the development of high-quality patient and public engagement.
- Understand the workings of the organisation (clinical and non-clinical services) and work collaboratively with Trust staff to identify problems and apply creative and innovative thinking in developing solutions.
The role could involve the following:
- Working closely with the CNWL Safety Team to help make decisions on how they can improve patient safety in all services (including both mental health and physical health)
- Becoming a member of the CNWL Quality Committee, meeting once a month
- Becoming a member of the Trustwide Quality Improvement (QI) Safety Programme, meeting once a month where you will help advise QI projects on how to meaningfully involve patients and carers in safety-based QI projects.
- Giving your views on how safety issues should be addressed and providing appropriate challenge to help CNWL learn and grow.
- Helping make sure CNWL hears the views of a diverse range of service users, carers, families and wider communities, including people who are sometimes overlooked.
- Meetings are likely to be a mixture of virtual and face to face (the latter mostly taking place at Trust HQ in central London).
- Some reading and emails in between meetings will be required.
Interested in applying?
For further information, or to talk through the role or for support in completing the application form, please contact CNWL via cnwl.safetyteam@nhs.net or call 020 3214 5780. They also have a Patient Safety Partner webpage with further information.
Please note the closing date for applications is midnight on 5 October 2025.
