REQUIRED: CLINICAL SAFETY OFFICER
LOCATION: HYBRID ROLE SPLIT BETWEEN WORKING REMOTELY AND ONSITE IN CENTRAL LONDON
DURATION: 12 MONTH INITIAL CONTRACT
IR35 STATUS: INSIDE
Clinical Safety Officer - Digital Screening Programme
Role Description:
The Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) for the Digital Screening programme provides end-to-end clinical safety assurance across the product life cycle, ensuring digital solutions comply with mandatory clinical safety standards (DCB0129 and DCB0160) and NHSE governance. The CSO leads clinical risk identification and hazard analysis, determines Safety Assurance Levels (SAL), advises on clinical design to mitigate patient-safety risks, produces and reviews Clinical Safety Case Reports and hazard logs, assesses and supports incident investigations and post-implementation risk reviews, attends and presents to Clinical Safety Group (CSG) and programme governance, and embeds clinical safety into agile and User-Centred Design delivery practices. The role requires documenting risks and assurance activities in programme tooling (eg Aspyre) and driving improvements in workflows and tooling to enable safe, more frequent releases.
This is a highly collaborative role requiring strong stakeholder management across clinical, technical, and senior leadership groups. The CSO must act as a trusted advisor and enabler, working proactively and positively to facilitate progress when clinical s...