Overview
The Digital Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) is a specialist patient safety role supporting the delivery of the Digital Clinical System (DCS) across East Cheshire NHS Trust (ECT) and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT). The post holder will optimise and maintain the clinical risk management process in line with national standards, including ensuring the digital infrastructure and staff skills meet the requirements of DCB 0160 — the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems across the organisation. The CSO will evaluate and test the DCS modules as they develop, assess impact on clinical areas, and produce clinical safety case reports, risk and hazard logs with recommendations for improvement as appropriate. The CSO will lead Clinical Governance within the DCS BAU Team with strong links to the wider Digital Health agenda and liaise with CCIOs, CNIOs, CIOs, Associate CIOs (Digital Clinical Leads), Clinical Governance Teams and Patient Safety Teams. The role acts as the appointed Clinical Safety Officer for the DCS and will act on behalf of ECT and MCHFT.
Responsibilities
* Provide specialist clinical safety expertise and support to colleagues across the two Trusts in relation to the DCS.
* Develop, maintain and refine robust systems and processes for identifying and addressing patient safety risks associated with the DCS and its wider environment.
* Optimise and maintain Clinical Risk Management (CRM) processes with appropriate national standards (e.g., DCB 0160, Health and Social Care Act 2012).
* Ensure Clinical Safety is considered throughout the lifetime of the DCS, identifying and mitigating associated clinical risks through continual and targeted risk assessments as the system matures.
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