Safety Engineer- Digital Clinical Safety and Risk

In this role, you will play a critical part in ensuring the safety assurance of health IT systems developed for use across the NHS. You will be responsible for identifying, assessing, and managing risks associated with digital health technologies, ensuring they meet rigorous safety standards throughout their lifecycle, from design and development through to deployment and operational use. You will demonstrate a strong understanding of safety management principles, clinical risk management, and assurance methodologies.

Your work will involve close collaboration with technical and clinical teams within NHS England, as well as providing expert safety advice and guidance to external suppliers and healthcare organisations. As a key member of the Clinical Safety Group, you will contribute to the development and continuous improvement of safety processes, documentation, and governance. You will be expected to influence stakeholders, resolve safety‑related conflicts, and communicate risks and mitigations clearly and effectively.

You must be a confident communicator, capable of working independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. The role requires 40% in office attendance and occasional travel to support safety meetings and stakeholder engagement.

• Conduct clinical safety assessments and undertake clinical safety analyses using a broad selection of appropriate techniques. This can be found under key accountabilities in JD
• Facilitate and deliver Clinical Risk Management training. This can be found under key accountabilities in JD
• Develop relationships with suppliers and/or customers while planning and conducting clinical risk management activities for a release. This can be found under key accountabilities in JD

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.

Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms -- including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

In 2025, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste. If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement.

You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.