Band 8b Senior Digital Clinical Safety Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

Duties will include, but are not limited to:

• Provide senior clinical safety leadership and assurance across Defence healthcare technology and digital services.
• Lead the application of recognised clinical risk management standards, including DCB0129 and DCB0160, ensuring risks are identified, assessed, and effectively managed.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of clinical safety documentation and provide assurance to digital programmes, projects, and operational services
• Advise senior leaders, delivery teams and suppliers on clinical safety, clinical risk, and patient safety matters.
• Support the investigation of clinical safety incidents, ensuring lessons identified are embedded into future service delivery and continuous improvement activities.

Please read the attached job description and person specification prior to applying to fully understand all the duties.

Application Information - Selection Process

At application stage you will be assessed against the following:

CV:

• Please ensure you demonstrate that you have the required skills, knowledge, experience, qualifications and memberships in the CV section of the application form.

In your application, you should clearly demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria for the role, using examples from your professional experience, qualifications, and achievements.

Attention should be given to:

• Clinical safety leadership experience.
• Application of clinical risk management principles.
• Experience of digital healthcare systems and services.
• Stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
• Clinical governance and patient safety expertise.

Use of Artificial Intelligence in Applications

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance supporting link for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

At interview you will be assessed against the following:

NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework:

• NHS Core NHSC1 Communication
• NHS Core NHSC3 Health, Safety & Security
• NHS Core NHSC5 Quality
• NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK2 Information Collection & Analysis
• NHS Information & Knowledge NHS IK3 Knowledge & Info Resources

Whilst assessment will be under the above skills framework, assessment willinclude clinical safety leadership, risk management, stakeholder engagement, digital healthcare systems and patient safety.

Further Information

The sift will be completed within 10 working days of the vacancy closing date. Interviews will be held on a date to be confirmed.

There will be no reimbursement for any travel expenses for the interview.

Cyber and Specialist Operations Command (CSOC) is going through a significant transformation programme which aims to design the way in which the new Military Command conducts its business and delivers for Defence and the nation. As a consequence of this, posts within CSOC are/or may become subject to review and potential changes as we continuously improve across the period of the transformation programme. These changes may be minor or could be more substantive and will generate new opportunities. Throughout, the Commands transformation programme is committed to following the MODs framework on managing and supporting people through the change process and places an emphasis on early and open consultation and engagement with the Commands personnel and Trade Unions.

All employees joining Ministry of Defence who are new to the Civil Service will be subject to a 6-month probation period (unless otherwise advised) effective from the employment start date.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Security Check (SC) clearance.

To be considered for this role, qualifications and memberships detailed must be held in full, prior to submitting your application.

The post does NOT offer relocation expenses (move of home, excess fares or temporary transfer). Non-Standard move applicants will be eligible for the full package, subject to eligibility.

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points-based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. It is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points-based system.

Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected, and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

This vacancy is part of the A Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative. Further information is available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

There may be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all DCS candidates that meet the minimum criteria for the job. For example, in certain recruitment situations such as a high volume of applications, seasonal demand, or peak periods, the employer may wish to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both DCS and non-DCS applicants.

If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact dbscivpers-sgdmsresourcing@mod.gov.uk.

The Ministry of Defence requires all candidates who are successful at interview to declare any outside interests. These declarations will be discussed with successful candidates following the interview process and before a formal offer of employment is made, as some outside interests may not be compatible with MOD civilian roles. This will not, in the majority of cases, prevent employment in MOD, but it is a measure that must be taken to ensure that appropriate mitigations can be put in place to manage any potential, perceived or actual conflicts of interest from the first day of employment.

The Ministry of Defence adopts a zero tolerance approach to unacceptable behaviours, which includes bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, discrimination, and victimisation. You will not be eligible and will not be considered for this post if you have been dismissed from a role for such unacceptable behaviours within the last five years. This will also apply if you resign or otherwise leave a role but, because of an adverse decision, would have been dismissed for gross misconduct had you continued in that employment. Pre-employment checks will be carried out.

The Ministry of Defence is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for its staff which includes educating them on the benefits of not smoking, protecting them from the harmful effects of second-hand smoke and supporting those who want to give up smoking. Under the Smoke-Free Working Environment policy, Smoking and the use of all tobacco products (including combustible and chewing tobacco products) will not be permitted anywhere in the Defence working environment. The policy is Whole Force and includes all Defence personnel, contractors, visitors and other non-MOD personnel. All applicants seeking, considering, or accepting employment with the Ministry of Defence should be aware of this policy and that it is already in place at a number of Defence Establishments.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Formal Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) Qualification (DCB0129/DCB0160).
• Evidence of Continued Professional Development (CPD) relevant to digital health, patient safety or clinical governance.

Professional Registration

• Current professional registration with the NMC, GMC, HCPC or GPhC.
• Applicants must provide a valid registration number as part of their application in response to this question.
• Registration must be held prior to application and remain current throughout the recruitment process to be eligible.
• Applications submitted without a valid registration number will not be progressed.

CV Submission

• Please provide a full career history within this section of the application form.
• As CVs cannot be uploaded as attachments, all relevant information must be entered directly into the application form.
• Applicants should ensure sufficient detail is provided to demonstrate how they meet the essential criteria, as applications containing insufficient evidence may not be shortlisted.

Behavior Statement

• Have you been dismissed for gross misconduct relating to bullying, harassment, discrimination or victimisation from any role in the past five years, or resigned or otherwise left a role but would have been dismissed for such gross misconduct because of an adverse decision, had you continued in that employment?
• Please respond with Yes or No as appropriate.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Ministry of Defence (Defence Medical Services)

Address

DMS Whittington

Coltman House

Lichfield

WS14 9PY

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence