Clinical Safety Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To comply at all times with the requirements of the Health & Safety regulations under the Health & Safety at Work Act (1974) and to take responsibility for the health and safety and welfare of others in the working environment ensuring that agreed safety procedures are carried out to maintain a safe environment.

To comply at all times with the Trusts Information Governance Policy. The policy sets out the accountability and reporting arrangements for Information Governance in the trust and how assurance is provided that the Trust continues to meet at least the minimum standards of information governance compliance required by the NHS Information Governance Toolkit.

3. Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) (formerly CRB) checks are now a mandatory part of the NHS Six Recruitment Check Standards for all staff whom, in the course of their normal duties, may have regular access to patients and children and/or vulnerable adults. Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust aims to promote equality of opportunity for all with the right mix of talent, skills and potential. Criminal records will be taken into account for recruitment purposes only when the conviction is relevant and an unspent conviction will not necessarily bar applicants from being considered for employment. Moorfields Eye Hospital is exempt under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act which outlines that convictions never become spent for work which involves access to patients. Failure to disclose any unspent convictions may result in the offer of employment being withdrawn or if appointed could lead to dismissal. The Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) has published a Code of Practice for organisations undertaking DBS checks and the trust has developed its own DBS policy in line with the guidance

4. The trust has adopted a security policy in order to help protect patients, visitors and staff and to safeguard their property. All employees have a responsibility to ensure that those persons using the trust and its service are as secure as possible.

5. It is the responsibility of all trust employees to fully comply with the safeguarding policies and procedures of the trust. As a Moorfields employee you must ensure that you understand your role in protecting adults and children that may be at risk of abuse. Individuals must ensure compliance with their safeguarding training.

6. The trust is committed to a policy of equal opportunities. A copy of our policy is available from the human resources department.

7. The trust operates a no-smoking policy.

8. You should familiarise yourself with the requirements of the trusts policies in respect of the Freedom of Information Act and comply with those requirements accordingly.

9. The role description gives a general outline of the duties of the post and is not intended to be an inflexible or finite list of tasks. It may be varied, from time to time, after consultation with the post holder.

10. All appointments within the National Health Service are subject to pre-employment health screening.

11. It is the responsibility of all employees to ensure that they comply with the trust infection control practises, as outlined in the Health Act 2008 and staff must be familiar with the policies in the trusts infection control manual, this includes the bare below the elbow policy. Employees must ensure compliance with their annual infection control training.

12. You are responsible for ensuring that all equipment used by patients is clean/decontaminated as instructed by manufacturers and in line with the infection control/guidelines protocol and policy.

Any other duties as designated by your manager and which are commensurate with the grade

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Professional qualification and registration in one of the clinical health professions and registration with the relevant governing body e.g., GOC, GMC, NMC etc.

• Qualifications in clinical informatics, for example NHS Digital Academy or affiliation with the Faculty of Clinical Informatics.

Experience

• Currently working at Agenda for Change Band 7 or above
• Substantial experience in the use of various hospital systems, devices and IT applications through clinical experience including OpenEyes, PAS, Forum, CITO, Heyex, Pathology, and devices including biometers, anterior and posterior segment OCT

• Professional leadership experience e.g., clinical, educational or governance lead
• Experience in the handling of incidents and of reporting to incident panel
• Experience with hospital activity data and data analysis

Analytical

• Experience in gathering and in-depth analysis of data e.g., through audit or research

• Practical experience of Moorfields' clinical information systems

Communication

• Strong communicator, able to convey complex ideas and to have difficult conversations with key stakeholders

• Experience of discussions at senior management level

Leadership Skills

• Strong presentation skills e.g., at conference, teaching and in clinical training To be able to demonstrate leadership skills including: o Gaining the support of others by ensuring that they understand the reasons behind change. o Willingness to tackle and manage difficult issues o Logical approach to problem solving o Ability to follow through and complete tasks and projects. o Ability to engage with all clinical and non-clinical staff irrespective of professional background

• Current clinical supervisory or leadership role

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

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Moorfields Eye Hospital

162 City Road

London

EC1V 2PD

Employer's website

https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/work-for-us