Digital Clinical Informatics Safety Specialist
Closing date: 14 April 2026
Are you a healthcare professional with an interest in developing as a digital clinical informatics safety specialist? We have an exciting opportunity to join our digital safety team.
The Digital Clinical Informatics Safety Specialist will support the Digital Clinical Safety Lead and ensure that our digital clinical systems are safe and used to improve patient care and outcomes. The role provides leadership, visibility and expert support to the digital clinical safety work across the organisation.
Part‑time (22.5 hrs) and fixed‑term until 31 August 2030. Flexible and hybrid working arrangements are considered.
Main duties
* Ensure compliance with legislation and requirements for digital clinical systems.
* Support delivery of the Trust's digital safety priorities and improvement plans.
* Contribute to electronic health record and other digital system patient‑safety and risk‑management activities.
About UCLH
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the UK's most complex NHS trusts, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services across eight sites.
UCLH specialises in women's health, cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease, backed by world‑class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
Committed to sustainability, UCLH is pledged to become a carbon‑net‑zero health service, targeting net‑zero emissions by 2031 (direct) and 2040 (indirect).
Job responsibilities
Join a leading NHS trust that consistently receives high staff recommendation ratings and offers flexible working. The role includes:
* Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams across the trust.
* Delivering safety assessments, risk analyses and action plans.
* Investigating complex patient safety incidents and providing recommendations.
* Organising and leading multidisciplinary safety teams and meetings.
Person specification
Knowledge and qualifications
* Clinical graduate or postgraduate competence with patient safety experience.
* Certified NHS Digital Clinical Safety Practitioner.
* Experience working within large, multi‑disciplinary organisations.
Experience
* Clinical safety management role in a large organisation.
* Deliver projects to tight deadlines.
* Analyse broad management/clinical data and produce recommendations.
* Investigate complex patient safety or clinical incidents.
* Perform safety assessments, risk analysis and develop action plans.
* Lead and organise multidisciplinary teams.
* Analyse complex data and present reports across the organisation.
* Technical knowledge of application lifecycles and techniques.
Skills and abilities
* Excellent coordination, organisational and negotiation skills.
* Effective written and verbal communication, including report writing.
* Ability to create and deliver complex presentations to clinical and digital staff.
* Work effectively with staff at all levels.
* Understanding of NHS patient safety and digital policies.
* Work independently with minimum supervision.
* Handle pressure and competing priorities.
* Lead meetings, prioritise tasks and resolve conflicts.
* Understand complex health IT systems.
* Apply NHS Patient Safety Incident Response Framework.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
Salary
£64,156 to £71,148 per annum inclusive of HCAS (pro‑rata for part time).
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