As a digital clinical safety specialist, you will be responsible for supporting the Digital Clinical Safety Lead for Digital Healthcare to ensure that our digital clinical systems are safe and being used safely to improve patient care and outcomes.
Main duties of the job
This exciting new role combines elements of patient safety and risk management with digital health system safety. The main duties of the role are to:
1. Ensure compliance with the legislation and requirements for digital clinical systems.
2. Be responsible for coordinating key digital clinical safety meetings.
3. Support the implementation of the Trust digital safety strategy.
4. Contribute to patient safety incident investigations and risk management activities.
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services to people from the local area, throughout the United Kingdom, and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
* University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
* National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
* Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
* University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
* Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
* University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
* The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
* University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specializes in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal, and oral disease. It has world-class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine, and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
* Clinical Graduate and postgraduate level competence or equivalent higher education qualification or equivalent experience in patient safety.
* NHS Digital Clinical Safety Practitioner certified.
* Experience working in a large and complex organization (circa 5,000 staff) in multi-disciplinary teams.
Experience
Essential
* Experience in a Patient or Clinical Safety Management Role within a large organization.
* Proven ability to deliver to tight deadlines.
* Proven ability to analyze a broad range of management/clinical information and identify recommendation actions.
* Experience of investigating complex and challenging patient safety or clinical incidents.
* Experience of performing safety assessments and risk analysis and developing action plans.
* Leading and/or organizing multidisciplinary teams.
* Analysis of complex data and presentation of this data and reports across the organization.
Desirable
* Technical knowledge of application Lifecycles and techniques.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Excellent communication skills, both written and oral.
* Excellent coordination, organizational, and negotiation abilities.
* Effective written and verbal communication skills including report writing skills.
* Ability to create and deliver complex presentations to both digital healthcare and clinical staff, often in large, multi-disciplinary groups.
* Ability to work effectively with staff at all levels across the organization.
* Understanding of NHS Patient Safety and Digital policies/agendas.
* Ability to work on own initiative with minimum supervision.
* Ability to work under pressure dealing with changing & sometimes conflicting priorities.
* Customer relationship skills.
Desirable
* Understanding of complex health IT systems.
* Understanding of the NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework and ability to apply it.
Communication
Essential
* Strong interpersonal skills, effective communication, and follow-up skills.
* The ability to lead meetings, prioritize tasks, and resolve conflicts.
Personal and People Development
Desirable
* Experience in delivering training.
Employer details
Employer name
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
UCLH
235 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BU
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