Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will facilitate effective governance of digital transformation across 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).
The post 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.
The post holder will lead and co-ordinate management of and response to digital related incidents, promoting surveillance and reporting, undertaking thematic analysis where possible to identify any trends that can be proactively mitigated, to ensure patient safety is always optimised.
The post holder will be accountable 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.
The post holder will promote and increase awareness of digital clinical safety across the organisation, delivering related education and training across the Trust and maintaining a record of this.
The post holder will offer expert digital leadership when working in collaboration with the Patient Safety Team and Divisional Patient Safety Improvement Groups to review harm incidents as well as emergent themes and concerns.
The post holder will act as Lead Officer. This role entails being guardian of meetings. They are the person who liaises with the chairperson and administrator to make meetings as effective and efficient as possible.
The post holder will work in collaboration with teams across the Trust to ensure that any quality improvement projects involving digital solutions have strategic oversight regarding the safety and implications of work carried out.
The post holder will provide a strategic role at Improvement Groups to ensure any digital clinical safety implications are addressed and mitigated appropriately.
The post holder will champion Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity, and embed these values and behaviours, ensuring anti discriminatory behaviour underpins and overarches everything. They will demonstrate adhering to Trust values and be accountable for own attitude and behaviour.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Recognised teaching, mentoring, management, or leadership qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- 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
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to undertake additional training as necessary
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Expert knowledge of clinical governance and its application to clinical informatics practice
- Expert knowledge of the DCB0129 and DCB0160 standards
Values
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate the organisational values and behaviours
Other
Essential criteria
- 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.
The closing date for this post may be extended if there are insufficient applicants or brought forward if there is a high volume of applicants.
Application Information – If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, I regret that on this occasion your application will have been unsuccessful.
Sponsorship Information – We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the
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