Digital Clinical Safety & Governance Officer
Job summary
An excellent opportunity for an experienced Nurse or Allied Health Professional seeking a challenge in an exemplary organisation. As part of the Digital Clinical team, the postholder will support the CCIO for Nursing and AHPs to achieve the missions and objectives set in our Digital Strategy. They will be accountable for ensuring legal, quality, and safety standards are met and maintained across Digital Services to promote the safety and quality of care facilitated. This role is responsible for better integrating digital clinical safety into the organisation's wider patient safety governance structures.
Main duties of the job
This role is the accountable officer to oversee and ensure the organisation implements and maintains Clinical Risk Management activities that support the safe development, introduction, and deployment of clinical digital systems in conjunction with the CCIOs and Digital Senior Management Team. This role is accountable for maintaining an integrated governance framework that unites Digital Services, clinical safety, and patient safety committees. The postholder will provide senior leadership, management, and engagement for Digital Services to support the safe and efficient design, implementation, and use of digital solutions within agreed projects to deliver improvements in the quality and outcomes of care. As a highly visible member of Digital Services, the postholder will work collaboratively with key stakeholders across the Trust to promote the highest standards of patient safety, and champion the consideration of clinical safety and governance from conception to decommissioning. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the post holder will be experienced and excited by clinical safety and the importance of this role in improving clinical safety and outcomes. The post will suit a clinician with a track record of delivering change and improvements in practice. The post holder should be an excellent communicator who can work with all levels of clinical and non-clinical staff. Resilience, persistence, and the ability to enthuse colleagues will be key required skills
About us
The Christie is one of Europe's leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country. We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holderwillfacilitateeffective governance of digital transformationacross the Trust, leading the application of the DCB0129 (where applicable) and DCB0160 clinical risk management process, enabling the Trust to meet digital clinical safety obligations under the Health and Social Care Act(Section 250)(2012).
Thepost holder will be accountable for digital clinical risk management, leading the systematic application of management policies, procedures, and practices to the tasks of analysing, evaluating, and controlling clinical risk.
Thepost holderwill lead and co-ordinate management of and response to digital related incidents, promoting surveillance and reporting, undertaking thematic analysis where possible toidentifyany trends that can be proactively mitigated, to ensure patient safety isalways optimised.
Thepost holder will beaccountable for the assessment of clinical safety issues in the implementation of health IT systems, including ongoing management once transferred to business as usual, ensuring all digital solutions conform to relevant national standards for clinical safety.
Thepost holderwill promote and increase awareness of digital clinical safety across the organisation,deliveringrelatededucationand trainingacross the Trustandmaintaininga record of this.
Thepost holderwill offer expertdigitalleadershipwhen working in collaboration with the Patient Safety Team and Divisional Patient Safety Improvement Groups to review harmincidents as well as emergent themes and concerns.
The post holder will act asLeadOfficer. This role entails beingguardianof meetings. They are thepersonwholiaiseswith the chairperson and administrator to make meetings as effective and efficient as possible.
The post holder willwork in collaboration with teams across the Trust to ensure that any quality improvement projects involving digital solutions have strategic oversightregardingthe safety and implications of work carried out.
The post holder willprovide a strategic role at Improvement Groups to ensure any digital clinical safety implications are addressed and mitigated appropriately.
The post holder willchampion Equality,Diversityand Inclusivity, and embed these values andbehaviours, ensuringanti discriminatorybehaviourunderpins and overarches everything. They willdemonstrateadhering to Trustvalues andbeaccountable for own attitude and behaviour.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Qualified nurse or allied health professional with current NMC or HCPC registration
- NHS Clinical Safety Officer
- Master's degree or equivalent experience at a senior level (AfC band 8a or above)
- Training in digital healthcare/clinical informatics
- Recognised teaching, mentoring, management, or leadership qualification
Experience
- Extensive experience in clinical risk management
- Experience of implementing Trust wide health IT systems
- Extensive experience of leading a team or service to effectively deliver strategic aims
- Significant experience of leading complex change, including influencing colleagues at different levels of seniority
- Recent clinical experience of daily operational working in an acute environment
- Significant experience of clinical audit and standard setting
- Working with a wide range of professionals including medical, Allied Health Professionals (AHP), nursing, and non-clinical colleagues
Skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, with the ability to communicate at all levels effectively
- Ability to analyse complex data and problem solve
- Personal resilience and determination to make a tangible contribution to healthcare
- Self-motivated and ability to work without supervision
- Ability to prioritise and deliver high quality and accurate work to tight deadlines
- Ability to lead, motivate, inspire, and encourage others
- Ability to demonstrate initiative
- A high level of diplomacy and a non-judgemental attitude
- A flexible approach to duties
- Ability to multitask and deal with frequent interruptions and interventions when carrying out complex tasks
- Willingness to undertake additional training as necessary
Knowledge
- Expert knowledge of clinical governance and its application to clinical informatics practice
- Expert knowledge of the DCB0129 and DCB0160 standards
Values
- Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours
Other
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post.
- Occasional travelling will be required.
- It is expected that the post holder will do clinical shifts per month to work with the nursing and AHP workforce.
- Out of Hours Shifts may be required, especially at key stages in the implementation of clinical digital systems.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
The Christie NHS FT
Address
Service Improvement - E00830
Manchester
M20 4BX
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.christie.nhs.uk/