Clinical Safety Officer (Core Team) - EPR Programme

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Safety Officer, responsible for leading all clinical safety aspects of the Electronic Patient Record programme. This vital role ensures safe delivery for patients by overseeing compliance with safety standards and risk management practices across the Integrated Care System. Ideal candidates are required to have a senior clinical position and appropriate clinical safety qualifications.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and professional development

NHS pension scheme

Qualifications

• Practising clinical with a senior position in their organisation.
• Evidence of continued professional and educational development.
• Experience in risk management and clinical safety.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical risk management across the EPR programme.
• Review and approve clinical risk management documentation.
• Develop and maintain clinical risk management documentation.

Skills

Communication

Facilitation

Networking

Problem Solving

Education

Appropriate Clinical Safety qualification

Current professional registration such as GMC or NMC

Job description

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

Job overview

This role is only open to applicants that currently work within an NHS Trust within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (HIOW ICS).

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Acute Care Collaborative have come together as part of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) as an Acute Provider Collaborative (APC) to invest in Electronic Patient Record (EPR) functionality. This is to meet the needs of our whole ICB population, recognising that the organisation of clinical care needs to change and develop radically in order to meet the challenges we face.

A Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) is required to lead all Clinical Safety aspects of the programme to ensure it is delivered in a safe and responsible way for patients.

• Work closely with the core team and local Trust CCIOs, CNIOs and CSOs to lead on clinical risk management across the programme.
• Ensure the programme conforms to DCB0129 and DCB0160 in the procurement, development and deployment of the single EPR.
  Develop and provide guidance and support to the programme with regards to clinical risk management practices and process.
• The role will include a mix of home and cross site working.

Main duties of the job

• Review and approve clinical risk management documentation for the programme.
• Recognise, and provide guidance on, potential defects in the inherent design of the chosen EPR, including how unintentional errors may occur, and therefore how the system impacts existing business processes.
• Use judgement to interpret policies and standards to make appropriate decisions to support the delivery and support of the EPR.
• Lead on development of Clinical Safety processes and documentation to ensure the EPR programme record and govern these appropriately.
• Ensure clinical safety is appropriately managed throughout the lifecycle of the EPR.
• Develop and maintain and strategic overview of current knowledge and practice in the field of clinical risk management.
• Attend meetings as required to provide clinical safety advice and guidance to EPR programme decision-making groups.
• Develop, manage and maintain clinical risk management documentation for compliance with DCB0129 and DCB0160 regulations.

Please note: This is a single vacancy. To ensure broad accessibility, the role will be advertised through both general recruitment and medical consultant platforms. However, there is only one position available, and it is open to applicants from both routes, including Consultants.

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action or [e-mail].

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details including main responsibilities.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Practising clinical with a senior position within their organisation and current professional registration such as GMC or NMC
• Evidence of continued professional and educational development with evidence of training and qualifications in a relevant health discipline.
• Appropriate Clinical Safety qualification

Experience and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of risk management and clinical safety, working in a clinical safety role.
• Experienced at a senior level in a healthcare setting. Clinically competent and credible with frontline staff and senior multi-disciplinary colleagues.
• Knowledge of the application of tools, techniques and skills required to use and maintain a Clinical Risk management System.
• In depth knowledge of digital healthcare systems/applications, human factors and their contribution and control in the context of patient harm.

Desirable criteria

• In depth understanding of the various digital clinical systems in use across the ICB.
• Knowledge of clinical pathways across the ICB.

Skills and Ability

Essential criteria

• Presenting and communicating to large groups.
• Facilitation of multi-professional groups.
• Demonstrates knowledge and ability to advise the senior staff members on professional issues.
• Highly developed communication and influencing skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels, including interpersonal skills, liaison and negotiation skills
• Able to build rapport and credibility with senior clinical and operational colleagues.
• Ability to resolve problems and conflicts by making informed decisions based on complex facts from a range of sources.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of successfully leading change.

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first - as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email - please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 470.1KB)
• HHFT Employee Rewards & Benefits (PDF, 723.8KB)
• Tackling Climate Change at Hampshire Hospitals (PDF, 4.9MB)