Digital Clinical Informatics Safety Specialist
Job summary
Are you a healthcare professional with an interest in developing as a digital clinical informatics safety specialist? We have an exciting opportunity to join our digital safety team.
The Digital Clinical Informatics Safety Specialist will be responsible for supporting the Digital Clinical Safety Lead for Digital Healthcare to ensure that our digital clinical systems are safe and being used safely to improve patient care and outcomes. They will provide leadership, visibility and expert support to the digital clinical safety work in the organisation.
The post is part-time (22.5 hours) and fixed term until 31 August 2030. We would consider applications for flexible and hybrid working.
Main duties of the job
This exciting role combines elements of patient safety, risk management, clinical informatics and digital systems safety. The main duties of the role are to:- Ensure compliance with the legislation and requirements for digital clinical systems- Support the delivery of the Trust digital safety priorities and improvement plans- Contribute to electronic health record and other digital systems related patient safety and risk management activities
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research. We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
o University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing) o National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery o Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital o Eastman Dental Hospital o Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine o University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre o The Hospital for Tropical Diseases o University College Hospitals at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040
Job description
Job responsibilities
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England for the third year in a row.
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff To find out more, visit:Flexible working.
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit:Why Choose UCLH?
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
- oClinical Graduate and postgraduate level competence or equivalent higher education qualification or equivalent experience in patient safety
- oNHS Digital Clinical Safety Practitioner certified
- oWorking in a large and complex organisation (circa 5,000) staff multi-disciplinary teams
Experience
- oExperience in a Patient or Clinical Safety Management Role within a large organisation
- oProven ability to deliver to tight deadlines
- oProven ability to analyse a broad range of management/ clinical information and identify recommendation actions
- oExperience of investigating complex and challenging patient safety or clinical incidents
- oExperience of performing safety assessments and risk analysis and developing action plans
- oLeading and/or organising multidisciplinary teams
- oAnalysis of complex data and presentation of this data and reports across the organisation.
- oTechnical knowledge of application lifecycles and techniques
Skills and Abilities
- oExcellent coordination, organisational and negotiation abilities
- oEffective written and verbal communication skills including report writing skills.
- oAbility to create and deliver complex presentations to both digital healthcare and clinical staff, often in large, multi-disciplinary groups
- oAbility to work effectively with staff at all levels across the organisation
- oUnderstanding of NHS Patient Safety and Digital policies / agenda
- oAbility to work on own initiative with minimum supervision.
- oAbility to work under pressure dealing with changing & sometimes conflicting priorities
- oThe ability to lead meetings, prioritise tasks and resolve conflicts
- oUnderstanding of complex health IT systems
- oUnderstanding of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and ability to apply it
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.
Employer details
Employer name
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
University College London Hospital
149 Tottenham Court Road
London
W1T 7NF
Employer's website
https://www.uclh.nhs.uk