Digital Clinical Safety and Governance Officer
Job overview
An excellent opportunity for an experienced Nurse or Allied Health Professional seeking a challenge in an exemplary organisation. As part of the Digital Clinical team, the postholder will support the CCIO for Nursing and AHPs to achieve the missions and objectives set in our Digital Strategy.They will be accountable for ensuring legal, quality, and safety standards are met and maintained across Digital Services to promote the safety and quality of care facilitated. This role is responsible for better integrating digital clinical safety into the organisation’s wider patient safety governance structures.
Main duties of the job
This role is the accountable officer to oversee and ensure the organisation implements and maintains Clinical Risk Management activities that support the safe development, introduction, and deployment of clinical digital systems in conjunction with the CCIOs and Digital Senior Management Team.This role is accountable for establishing an integrated governance framework that unites Digital Services, clinical safety, and patient safety committees. The postholder will provide senior leadership, management, and engagement for Digital Services to support the safe and efficient design, implementation, and use of digital solutions within agreed projects to deliver improvements in the quality and outcomes of care.
As a highly visible member of Digital Services, the postholder will work collaboratively with key stakeholders across the Trust to promote the highest standards of patient safety, and champion the consideration of clinical safety and governance from conception to decommissioning.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, the post holder will be experienced and excited by clinical safety and the importance of this role in improving clinical safety and outcomes. The post will suit a clinician with a track record of delivering change and improvements in practice.
The post holder should be an excellent communicator who can work with all levels of clinical and non-clinical staff. Resilience, persistence, and the ability to enthuse colleagues will be key required skills.
Working for our organisation
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services.We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.
We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
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
- 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
- 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
- Ability to plan, prioritise, and organise own workload effectively
- 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
- 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.
We want to ensure that everyone who works at the Christie or uses our services is welcomed, valued and treated with dignity and respect. The Christie values diversity and is committed to ensuring equal opportunities for all and fair representation across the organisation at all levels.In support of these commitments, we particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people and people with disabilities for this post. Appointment will be only on merit.
We are committed to creating a balanced and diverse workforce. As such we welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. Together we will foster inclusion and tackle inequity and health inequalities in cancer care.
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy
All positions within the Christie are subject to the receipt of satisfactory written references, medical clearance and evidence of your Right to Work in the UK. Some roles will require a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check. Please note if you are successfully appointed to a post with this Trust, you will be required to pay for your own DBS Disclosure.
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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.
The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and will form part of the recruitment process. In the event that you are successful following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.
Overseas candidates wishing to apply for this position and who would require immigration sponsorship, may wish to self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post on the UKVI website.
You should be aware the Trust operates a No Smoking Policy and therefore employees are not permitted to smoke at work.