Clinical Safety Officer
Job summary
We have agreed an ambitious One Digital Strategy Across our Digitalportfolio and we are working to the following principles of which the Clinical Safety Officer role is crucial to delivering:
1. Getting the basics right - creating reliable, modern digital foundations that support daily operations.
2. Putting users' needs first - implementing systems that work for our people, reducing complexity, and making delivering and receiving care easier.
3. Using digital as a tool for transformation - solving bigger challenges and adopting innovations faster by working together across UHL and UHN.
4. Embracing emerging technology - taking bold steps with innovative solutions, from artificial intelligence to process mining, placing these at the core of care delivery.
5. Bringing our data together - transforming care through unified data, making insights accessible to everyone to empower staff and enhance research
6. Harnessing strategic partnerships - increasing our impact through collaboration with NHS organisations, academic institutions, and private sector partners.
7. Creating and embedding one digital - delivering a unified approach to digital and data transformation across our organisations
Main duties of the job
TheClinical Safety Officer (CSO)will work as part of a dynamicdigital team. The post holder will have an extensive understanding ofdigitalclinical safety andbe responsible forefficient and effective management of the Digital Clinical Safetyportfoliowithin the multiple digitalprojects across theTrust.
The roleis responsible forproviding leadership, guidance, support, specialist knowledge and clinical safety review and approval for the implementation of new digital solutions and upgradestoexisting digital solutions across theportfolio of requests.
About us
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
- high-quality care for all,
- being a great place to work,
- partnerships for impact, and
- research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
- we are compassionate,
- we are proud,
- we are inclusive, and
- we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
https://www.uhleicester.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Safety Officer will be seen as a leading authority and primary point of contact for all matters relating to clinical safety ofour Trustsdigitalhealthsystems. The postholder, working with subject matter experts,willbe responsible fortheassessment and identificationofbothdirect and indirect clinical hazards to patients, and theappropriate mitigationof theidentifiedhazards.
The post holder will be competent with digital clinical safety. The postholder will work collaboratively with governance teams within the Digital Directorate and the Group to ensure streamlined processes are in place for the management of risk and investigation of incidents where these relate to or involve digital solutions.
Person Specification
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
- Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's Values and Behaviours.
Training & Qualifications
- Registered healthcare professional with current UK registration.
- Experience and familiarity with CSO role, with accredited CSO qualification.
- Master's level qualification in leadership, Change, Service Transformation or other relevant subject or equivalent experience.
- Articulate in the delivery of large projects or similar trust wide initiatives
- Evidence of recent and ongoing CPD/learning in relevant area
Experience
- Experienced CSO with portfolio of evidence to demonstrate past practice and achievements.
- Experienced clinician with evidence of working effectively across a range of clinical settings within a large teaching organisation
- Excellent communication skills with a range of people from a variety of disciplines regarding a range of business or technical matters
- Excellent writing and oral skills, including preparation of formal reports and training materials.
Communication and relationship skills
- Excellent communicator with a high level of interpersonal skills.
- Positive team focus and effective leadership style, which is adaptable, dependent upon required situation.
- Demonstrate a quality and outcomes focus in their work.
- Demonstratable passion for safe and effective healthcare.
- Able to engage colleagues through leadership, positivity and effective communication of Trust Digital strategies.
Analytical and Judgement skills
- Responsible for analysing and investigating complex and interlinked digital and clinical issues in relation to digital clinical safety.
- Evidence ability to interpret and present data across disciplines in non -technical terminology.
Skills
- The post holder will need to develop and maintain their own knowledge of developments and legislation relevant to digital clinical safety and ensure that their practice reflects current professional guidance and standards.
- The post holder will take responsibility for his or her own professional development, identifying training and educational needs and agreeing ways of addressing these with the Chief Clinical Information Officer
- Maintain clinical credibility and stay up to date with developments in clinical practice, which includes maintaining live registration through active clinical practice
Planning and organisation skills
- Working knowledge of all relevant UK legislation relating to Digital including but not limited to Freedom of Information Act, GDPR, Data Protection Act.
- Understanding of complex public sector organisations and how they work with others effectively
- Evidence an understanding of NHS legislation, governance frameworks, statute and constitution and the impact on NHS organisations.
- Experience in producing high quality documentation including Clinical Risk Management (CRM) Plans, Hazard Logs , and Clinical Safety Case Reports, in adherence to national standards.
- Experience in organising Clinical Safety Hazard workshops and capturing evidence of controls.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
- All staff are expected to engage in compassionate and inclusive leadership in the provision of high-quality care and interactions with others
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
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Address
Digital Office G60 County Hall
Groby Road
Leicester
LE3 8RA
Employer's website
https://www.jobsatleicestershospitals.nhs.uk/