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.
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.
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.
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.
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Feb 2025
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