Clinical Safety Officer
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
We are seeking an experienced Clinical Safety Officer (all registered healthcare professionals will be considered) to support the continual clinical assurance of digital services within the health board. Aneurin Bevan University Health Board have an established digital clinical assurance process following the principles of DCB 0129/0160 and the retirement of the current CSO and the imminent mandation of the Welsh equivalent standards need to ensure we continue to provide digital services which are safe.Reporting to the Chief Nursing Information Officer and sitting within the Digital, Data and technology arena this role is essential to support the management of digital risk within the health board.
Main duties of the job- Update and manage the clinical assurance process
- Ensure all digital services have been clinical risk assessed and have appropriate outputs i.e. clinical safety case report and hazard log
- Engagement with national and local stakeholders for the clinical safety assessment of digital services
- Participation in ensuring the safety of digital services throughout their life cycle
- Management of clinical incidents associated with digital services including investigation officer
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career.The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes.We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Clinical Safety Officer will provide expert clinical advice / specialist support to the health board, on issues relating to clinical risk management / patient safety assessment associated with the boards Digital, Data and Technology services for procurement, design & development, implementation of third-party systems and operational life cycle.
The individual will support the development, integration and embedding of the health board’s clinical assurance process which focuses on thepatient safety assessment of health board's digital, data and technology services at the design, development and final testing phases before they
are handed over to the service for operational use. The post holder will be pro-active in deploying and motivating health board and external
clinical, technical and project staff to commit time and effort to the risk management/risk assessment process so that health board's products
can be signed off as fit for use in real operational and clinical environments.
The individual will also support the development, integration and embedding of the health board clinical assurance process which focuses on the patient safety assessment of health board's digital, data and technology services in the operational phase of the life cycle.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Registered Healthcare Professional
- Masters Degree / Equivalent
- Leadership / management qualification / experience
- Accredited Clinician
- Digital experience; policy, planning, design
- Investigation experience
Risk
Essential criteria- Clinical risk management qualification
- Clinical risk management experience
- Extensive experience of digital risk management
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