The Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) position is a specialist clinical patient safety role within the Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KHFT) & Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare (HRCH) Clinical & Digital landscape. The postholder will administer the Clinical Risk Management (CRM) activities as required by Health and Social Care Act 2012 Standard DCB0160 to support the safe development, introduction, deployment, maintenance and deconditioning of Clinical Digital Systems (CDS).

Main duties of the job

As part of the Clinical, Patient Risk and Digital teams the individual will further embed the initiated CRM process within the organisations and will initially be integral in reviewing legacy and current clinical digital systems. The post-holder will support staff to gain the skills required to undertake appropriate levels of CRM work ensuring clinical digital safety is understood and facilitated wherever appropriate within the organisations. The CSO will hold overall responsibility for the CRM processes and Clinical Safety Cases required for each CDS.

The CSO will engage with the wider healthcare landscape within Southwest London, London and nationally to maximise the efficiency and economy of CDS for our shared patients and as directed by NHS or relevant guidance or requirements. Additionally, the CSO will support the CRM process if KHFT and HRCH merge in 2024 with support from NHS England.

About us

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred and which puts safety first and where all staff members take responsibility, are valued and value each other.

To support this, our five values are that we are all:

Caring - we design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants.

Safe - we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first).

Responsible - all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation.

Inspiring - we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients.

Value each other - we all value each other's contribution.

Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by Living Our Values Every day .

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Education / Qualifications / Clinical Experience

Essential

• Degree
• Current registration with UK healthcare registration organisation (e.g. NMC, GMC, HCPC)
• Clinical Safety Officer training (Intermediate Level)
• Clinical experience in acute health sector
• Post Graduate degree or qualification

Desirable

• Clinical experience in one or more of primary care, community or mental health sectors

Experience / Skills / Abilities / Knowledge

Essential

• Leadership experience
• Previous experience of Clinical Safety work
• Experience in the design, development or deployment of digital systems with clinical functionality

Desirable

• Previous experience of undertaking the Clinical Safety Officer role

NHS / Organisation culture

Essential

• Good understanding of current complexity of healthcare demands, locally and wider, and how Digital has the potential to support at all levels of the system but also the risks that Digital can present.
• Good understanding and knowledge of the complexity between digital clinical systems, clinical practice and clinical safety and current NHS digital targets.
• Systematic understanding of Digital Clinical Safety and related risk management ensuring a comprehensive awareness of current issues and new insights, theoretical knowledge and assessment methods.

Employer details

Employer name

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kingston Hospital Foundation Trust

Galsworthy Road

Kingston Upon Thames

KT2 7QB

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