Lead Clinical Safety Officer (CSO)

University Hospitals Tees; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Tees seeks a Lead Clinical Safety Officer to lead the clinical safety governance for digital systems and transformation programmes. You will work with the CCIO, clinicians and suppliers to ensure safety, effectiveness and positive outcomes for patients and staff across the Trust.

You will oversee the clinical safety function, guiding risk assessments, hazard logs and safety cases, and ensure lifecycle safety across digital initiatives.

Qualifications

• Registered healthcare professional with significant experience in clinical safety.
• Experience in digital health and risk management.
• Ability to provide expert leadership on clinical risk management and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical safety assurance activities for digital programmes, system implementations and services.
• Ensure compliance with national clinical safety standards, including DCB0160 and DCB0129 supplier assurance.
• Lead clinical risk assessments, hazard identification workshops and maintenance of hazard logs.
• Provide expert advice to clinicians, operational teams, senior leaders and suppliers on digital clinical safety risks and mitigations.
• Develop and maintain clinical safety policies, processes, safety cases and governance arrangements.
• Monitor, report and escalate digital clinical safety risks through governance structures.

Skills

Clinical safety

Risk management

Digital health

Job description

Are you passionate about improving patient safety through digital innovation?

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Lead Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) to lead and develop clinical safety governance across University Hospitals Tees. This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for ensuring that digital systems and transformation programmes are designed, implemented and maintained in a way that protects patient safety and supports high-quality care.

Working closely with the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), clinicians, digital teams and suppliers, you will provide expert leadership on clinical risk management, ensuring compliance with national standards including DCB0160 and DCB0129. You will play a key role in shaping the Trust's digital future, providing assurance that innovative technologies, clinical systems and digital transformation programmes are safe, effective and deliver positive outcomes for patients and staff.

This is an exciting opportunity for a registered healthcare professional with significant experience in clinical safety, digital health and risk management to influence strategic decision-making across one of the largest digital transformation programmes in the region.

As the Lead Clinical Safety Officer, you will lead the Trust's Clinical Safety function, providing strategic and operational oversight of clinical risk management for digital systems and services across University Hospitals Tees.

You will ensure that patient safety risks associated with digital technologies are identified, assessed, mitigated and monitored throughout the lifecycle of systems and transformation programmes.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Leading clinical safety assurance activities for digital programmes, system implementations and operational services.
• Ensuring compliance with national clinical safety standards, including DCB0160 and supporting assurance of supplier compliance with DCB0129.
• Leading clinical risk assessments, hazard identification workshops and maintenance of hazard logs.
• Providing expert advice to clinicians, operational teams, senior leaders and suppliers on digital clinical safety risks and mitigations.
• Developing and maintaining clinical safety policies, processes, safety cases and governance arrangements.
• Monitoring, reporting and escalating digital clinical safety risks through appropriate governance structures.

This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the safe adoption of digital technologies and support the delivery of a modern, digitally enabled healthcare service across University Hospitals Tees

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.

Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.

We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates, including those who first language is not English.

We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Tim Bonner Job title: Chief Clinical Information Officer Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01642 854479

Neil Dobinson

Deputy Chief Information Officer & Deputy SIRO

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