Job summary
As a Lead Safety Engineer, you will join ourClinical Safety Team; the team provides a clinical safety assurance service, across the digital programmes and services within NHS Englands Transformation Directorate, and to the wider health and social care service in England.
You will work closely with technical and clinical colleagues to promote and ensure that effective clinical risk management is carried out by both supplier and Health and Social Care organisations. This helps them develop, deploy, and modify health IT systems that assist health and care staff to provide better, safer, patient care.
Please note this is not a Health and Safety role, you will be required to have expertise in safety management in computer-based systems.
Main duties of the job
As part of the role, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the safety assurance of health IT systems developed for use in the NHS and supporting their subsequent deployment and use.
- effectively communicating, advising, and influencing organisations, resolving conflicts, and reporting proactively and effectively.
- Managing the facilitation and Safety sign-off off through governance gateways
- acting as a subject matter expert onsafety management principles and test and assurance approaches, advising internal and external organisations.
About us
We are a great place to work.What we do matters.
From April 2023, NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital became one single organisation, putting workforce, data, digital and technology at the heart of our plans to transform the NHS. Our mission, to use data and technology to improve lives remains and we are currently recruiting critical, priority roles. Successful applicants should be aware that roles may be subject to change in the new organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Lead Safety Engineer, you will join our Clinical Safety Team; the team provides a clinical safety assurance service, across the digital programmes and services within NHS Englands Transformation Directorate, and to the wider health and social care service in England.
You will work closely with technical and clinical colleagues to promote and ensure that effective clinical risk management is carried out by both supplier and Health and Social Care organisations. This helps them develop, deploy, and modify health IT systems that assist health and care staff to provide better, safer, patient care.
Please note this is not a Health and Safety role, you will be required to have expertise in safety management in computer-based systems.
As part of the role, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the safety assurance of health IT systems developed for use in the NHS and supporting their subsequent deployment and use.
- effectively communicating, advising, and influencing organisations, resolving conflicts, and reporting proactively and effectively.
- Managing the facilitation and Safety sign-off off through governance gateways
- acting as a subject matter expert on safety management principles and test and assurance approaches, advising internal and external organisations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As a Lead Safety Engineer, you will join our Clinical Safety Team; the team provides a clinical safety assurance service, across the digital programmes and services within NHS Englands Transformation Directorate, and to the wider health and social care service in England.
You will work closely with technical and clinical colleagues to promote and ensure that effective clinical risk management is carried out by both supplier and Health and Social Care organisations. This helps them develop, deploy, and modify health IT systems that assist health and care staff to provide better, safer, patient care.
Please note this is not a Health and Safety role, you will be required to have expertise in safety management in computer-based systems.
As part of the role, you will be responsible for:
- Leading the safety assurance of health IT systems developed for use in the NHS and supporting their subsequent deployment and use.
- effectively communicating, advising, and influencing organisations, resolving conflicts, and reporting proactively and effectively.
- Managing the facilitation and Safety sign-off off through governance gateways
- acting as a subject matter expert on safety management principles and test and assurance approaches, advising internal and external organisations.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level, or equivalent higher education qualification or an equivalent level of experience.
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability to identify hazards, undertake risk assessment and evaluate and assure risk control mechanisms.
- demonstrable experience of using modern software engineering technologies and associated test and assurance strategies.
- Knowledge and understanding of the concepts of technical, business and clinical risk management including clinical safety impacts.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of implementing clinical safety assurance through a quality maturity model driven by Clinical Safety Standards DCB0129 and DCB0160.
- Experience of defect management (Safety Incident Management) processes from discovery, analysis through to closure.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage and influence stakeholders.
- Experience of influencing others and offering mentoring to junior members.
- Some awareness of the Medical Device Regulation.
- Above all, someone who is conscientious, keen to make a difference and improve quality and safe delivery of Health IT solutions into the NHS.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Degree level, or equivalent higher education qualification or an equivalent level of experience.
Experience
Essential
- Proven ability to identify hazards, undertake risk assessment and evaluate and assure risk control mechanisms.
- demonstrable experience of using modern software engineering technologies and associated test and assurance strategies.
- Knowledge and understanding of the concepts of technical, business and clinical risk management including clinical safety impacts.
Desirable
- Working knowledge of implementing clinical safety assurance through a quality maturity model driven by Clinical Safety Standards DCB0129 and DCB0160.
- Experience of defect management (Safety Incident Management) processes from discovery, analysis through to closure.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage and influence stakeholders.
- Experience of influencing others and offering mentoring to junior members.
- Some awareness of the Medical Device Regulation.
- Above all, someone who is conscientious, keen to make a difference and improve quality and safe delivery of Health IT solutions into the NHS.
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
