Digital Clinical Safety and Governance Officer
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES The post holder will possess excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate highly complex information to all levels effectively. 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 highly complex 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 specialist 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 be responsible for developing a medium to long term clinical safety and governance plan for the Trust.
The post holder will be responsible for storing, safeguarding, and maintaining Clinical Safety Case Reports in line with national and local standards. The post holder will have significant experience and a regular requirement to undertake audit and standard setting.
The post holder will line manage the Digital Matron in line with appropriate policies, procedures, working practices and guidelines, ensuring all staff are deployed to maximise an efficient and effective delivery of digital services to patients and staff.
The post holder will create a professional, positive culture that promotes working across teams, and creates a sense of pride in individuals, Digital Services and the Trust. 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.