Clinical Safety Officer (Part-time)

at  DrDoctor

Who are you?
We are on the lookout for a proactive and pragmatic Clinical Safety Officer to join our team on a part time basis for three days per week. If you’re someone who thrives on ensuring that clinical safety is central to the design of health tech products, this role could be for you!
You’ll be key in making sure that our team balances risk and benefit throughout product development and delivery, putting safe and effective digital tools into the hands of patients and care teams.

OK, I’M INTERESTED. WHAT EXPERIENCE DO I NEED TO HAVE?

Must-haves:

• Formal, evidenced, training in clinical risk management in accordance with DCB 0160 and DCB 0129 standards, such as NHSE’s Digital Clinical Safety Practitioner training.
• Experience of developing and implementing a clinical risk management process, working across a number of health tech solutions.
• Awareness of product development and understanding of how clinical risk analysis can be integrated into this process alongside technical decisions.
• Ability to lead internal workshops and work collaboratively with engineers, product managers and delivery/transformation teams to ensure the appropriate subject matter experts are utilised for clinical risk management.
• Advanced communication and stakeholder management skills, particularly the ability to communicate technical concepts to a less technical audience, and the handling of complaints.
• Strong document management skills, enabling large numbers of hazards, causes and controls to be presented in a user-friendly format.
• Current professional registration in a relevant health field (e.g., nursing, medicine) with at least three years’ experience as a practising clinician.

• Ensuring we are meeting the milestones set out in the clinical risk management process and continuing to refine this process as we learn and develop.
• Planning and leading hazard identification workshops, bringing in relevant colleagues from across the Product and Transformation teams in an efficient and collaborative way.
• Taking an analytical and pragmatic approach to clinical risk assessment to ensure that risks are always weighed up against the value of our products and benefits to patients and services.
• Supporting the incident management process to mitigate any clinical impact when incidents occur and ensure learning from incidents is shared and reflected in clinical risk documentation.
• Writing hazard logs and clinical safety case reports in clear language suitable for both technical and lay readers, and managing the overall safety file.
• Acting as a trusted expert on clinical risk management, by meeting with CSOs from deploying organisations to support their hazard workshops or answer questions about our clinical risk evaluation and justifying the decisions we have made