Clinical Safety Officer

Job summary

As the Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) your role is to develop and implement Clinical Risk Management activities within the ICB that support the safe development, introduction, and deployment of clinical digital systems.

The post-holder will be responsible for coordinating with other ICS partner organisation, digital clinical risk teams, to develop a common cooperative approach to clinical risk management and optimise use of resources across the ICS.

As part of the dynamic and friendly digital team, the post-holder will plan and organise a digital clinical safety strategy across the ICB and the wider ICS, and formulate long term and strategic plans within the rapidly changing local organisation and wider health economy.

This role is essentially a facilitation role across the sector and central to this is collaboration between the provider organisations, the ICB and the wider health economy.

Interview Date: 24th February 2023

Main duties of the job

For a full list of duties held by this post, please refer to the job description

Develop, maintain, and refine systems and processes to identify and address patient safety risks associated with digital health applications and systems,

Exercise visible Clinical Safety leadership,

Be an integral part of the ICB Digital Team,

Lead, promote and support the adherence of the digital health applications implementation activities.

Develop and maintain effective relationships with clinical staff and managers to ensure that risk and patient harm is understood when deploying a digital health application or system.

Provide support, advice, and information to the wider ICS clinical quality and safety system to ensure that digital health application safety is understood, and report to the ICB Quality Council.

Be responsible for coordinating with other ICS partner organisation digital clinical risk teams to develop a common cooperative approach to clinical risk management and optimum use of CSO resources across the ICS.

Work with other London ICS and CSOs groups to co-ordinate clinical safety approaches.

Responsible for the training of staff, both clinical and non-clinical, within the ICB on clinical safety management (CSM) as well as supporting the SWL provider organisation clinical safety teams to training in CSM.

Responsible for developing strategic plans over the short and long term.

About us

On 1 July 2022, NHS South West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was established. The ICB, as part of South West London Integrated Care System (ICS), is a partnership of organisations that come together to plan and deliver joined up health and care services to improve the lives of people in our six boroughs: Croydon, Merton, Kingston, Richmond, Sutton and Wandsworth.

Each ICS consists of two statutory elements:

an Integrated Care Board, bringing the NHS together with its partners locally to improve health and care services

an Integrated Care Partnership (ICP): the broad alliance of organisations and representatives concerned with improving the care, health and wellbeing of the population, jointly convened by the ICB and local authorities in the area.

ICBs are statutory NHS bodies responsible for planning and allocating resources to meet the four core purposes of integrated care systems (ICSs):

to improve outcomes in population health and healthcare;

tackle inequalities in outcomes, experience and access;

enhance productivity and value for money and;

help the NHS support broader social and economic development.

NHS South West London Integrated Care Board decides how the South West London NHS budget is spent and develops plans to improve people's health, deliver higher quality care, and better value for money.