Job summary
Job Title: Digital Clinical Risk Manager
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
Closing Date: 3rd November 2024
Interview Date: 19th November 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
Main duties of the job
* Utilises a high degree of judgment, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision-making to complete a comprehensive review of quality-of-care incidents.
* Evaluate potential and/or actual patient harm clinical incidents to ensure a multi-disciplinary, risk-based approach is taken to effectively learn from unanticipated outcomes, patient safety events, sentinel events, and medical errors.
* Performs pertinent medical record and medical/nursing practice guideline reviews, provider queries, and coordinates specialty reviews, as needed, to facilitate investigation of assigned incidents.
* Independently reviews non-critical incidents to achieve resolution.
* Regular attendance is required to carry out the essential functions of the position.
* Reviews and meets ongoing competency requirements of the role to maintain the skills, knowledge, and abilities to perform, within scope, role-specific functions.
* Conduct thorough clinical incident investigations to identify root causes and implement corrective actions. Proactively identify and manage areas that pose risk management liabilities to ensure patient safety and compliance with healthcare standards.
* Act as a trusted advisor to healthcare professionals and administrative leaders, providing expert guidance on clinical risk management practices and strategies. Collaborate as an integral risk management team member, aiming to mitigate risks and enhance the quality of care provided by George Eliot Hospital (GEH).
About us
The Digital Clinical Risk Manager will ensure that GEH maintains high standards of care in a constantly evolving healthcare environment, leveraging their expertise to support the successful implementation and ongoing management of the EPR system, working with the Clinical Safety Officer and Clinical Informatics Team.
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
* Utilises a high degree of judgment, prioritization, problem-solving, and decision-making to complete a comprehensive review of quality-of-care incidents.
* Evaluate potential and/or actual patient harm clinical incidents to ensure a multi-disciplinary, risk-based approach is taken to effectively learn from unanticipated outcomes, patient safety events, sentinel events, and medical errors.
* Performs pertinent medical record and medical/nursing practice guideline reviews, provider queries, and coordinates specialty reviews, as needed, to facilitate investigation of assigned incidents.
* Independently reviews non-critical incidents to achieve resolution.
* Regular attendance is required to carry out the essential functions of the position.
* Reviews and meets ongoing competency requirements of the role to maintain the skills, knowledge, and abilities to perform, within scope, role-specific functions.
Leadership and Management:
* Oversees incident file management within the scope of Risk Management and Patient Safety processes to ensure accurate and thorough documentation of risk management investigation for the EPR Programme.
* Owns the analysis and clinical investigation of incidents involving patient harm that poses potential for and/or actual liability to the EPR Programme and all digital transformation projects within the organisation.
* Consults on the incident reporting process that enables reporting of trends to regional leadership teams to help support the oversight of quality, safety, and shared learning.
* Identifies problematic practices and/or adverse clinical risk trends and partners with Operations, Quality, and/or Patient Safety teams to eliminate or decrease the risk of patient harm and liability of the professionals and the System.
* Communicates and collaborates with leaders from the EPR programme, via CODA and CIMDT to develop strategies to minimize risk and promote patient safety.
* Serves as a member on various System Risk/Peer Review/Patient Safety/Quality committees to offer input and provide consultation on risk identification and reduction strategies.
* Provide guidance and advice regarding clinical risk management issues, policies, procedures, and practices to George Eliot Hospital, leadership, and staff from the risk management point-of-view.
* Partners within the Clinical Risk Team to assist in the orientation and training period for new Clinical Risk Management hires during the onboarding process.
* Deputise for the CCIO / CNIO Exec team (The CCIO / CNIO Exec team comprises of the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, Chief Clinical Informatics Officer, Deputy Chief Clinical Informatics Officer and the Clinical Safety Officer).
Professional and Clinical:
* Support the Clinical Safety Officer to completing Hazard Logs, Clinical Risks, Mitigations and understanding of associated NHS standards e.g. DCB160 and DCB129 standards.
* Responsibility for developing and maintaining own knowledge, skills, clinical skills, and professional awareness and maintaining a professional portfolio.
* To participate in the setting and maintaining of high standards of evidence-based care.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
* Confident and competent in the authoring and completion of formal documentation.
* Possesses highly developed specialist knowledge across a range of acute hospital settings, work procedures, and practices, underpinned by theoretical knowledge and extensive practical experience in various acute hospital clinical procedures, and demonstrates experience in a field where this specialist knowledge has been effectively implemented and applied within the portfolio of the post.
* Project Management experience.
Desirable
* Can demonstrate experience of providing guidance, teaching or coaching to clinical staff Proven record in managing/influencing others to achieve common goals and meet deadlines whilst complying with policy and procedure
* Proven record in change management In-depth understanding of how healthcare professionals use information and technologies in support of patient care.
* Delivery of service-wide sustainable change.
Qualification(s) and Professional Training
Essential
* Educated to degree level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in specialist area.
* Relevant qualification and or registration with a clinical regulatory body e.g. GMC or NMC or HCPC.
* Evidence of training or experience in an area of specialist knowledge that underpins a range of work practices contained within the portfolio for the post.
* Clinical Safety Training for Health IT eg NHS Digital Clinical Safety certified.
Desirable
* Masters level / Postgraduate Training in Digital Health.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
* Proficiency in Spreadsheets/Excel
* Knowledge and understanding of all legal and statutory matters in relation to the maintenance of clinical safety in the manufacture and adoption of IT health systems including the DCB0129 and DCB 0160 standards and requirements. Also Data Protection Impact Assessments and Medical Devices regulation requirements.
* To have a knowledge and practical experience of assessing and managing risk.
* To be fully literate and able to communicate clearly complex information verbally and electronically in appropriate formats using advanced communication skills
* To have knowledge and understanding of confidential information management
* To be able to organise, plan and deliver complex activities and manage own workload
* To be able to follow procedures and protocols and effectively apply work systems
* To be able to demonstrate the range of specialist skills and interventions required to provide training
* Evaluation skills
* Training intervention styles and audio visual techniques.
* Demonstrate motivation and commitment to the effective functioning of the directorate
* Appreciation of the cultural, organisational, professional and technical issues around IT strategies within the NHS
* Knowledge of clinical terms and an ability to appraise these influencing others to agree requirements for reports requested
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details
Employer name
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Address
George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
College Street
Nuneaton
CV10 7DJ
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