Clinical Safety Facilitator

The Clinical Safety Facilitator is a senior Trust-wide improvement and delivery role responsible for leading the operational performance of digital clinical safety assurance across multiple systems and programmes. Working under delegated authority from the Clinical Safety Officer, the postholder applies highly developed specialist knowledge to drive improved compliance, quality and timeliness of clinical risk management activity aligned to DCB
0129/DCB
0160. This role combines project management, governance, and clinical safety expertise, requiring significant autonomy, judgement and organisational skills. The postholder is responsible for managing complex work streams, tracking progress, identifying risks and delays, and ensuring timely escalation to maintain assurance across multiple digital systems and programmes, including EPR. The postholder applies highly developed specialist knowledge of digital clinical safety, clinical governance and change delivery (Masters level equivalent through training and experience) to drive Trust-wide improvement in assurance, compliance and operational performance.

Clinical Risk Management training to Practitioner level (or commitment within 6 months) and ability to apply it across multiple systems and programmes. Final clinical risk acceptance remains with the Clinical Safety Officer; however, the postholder is accountable for ensuring delivery, visibility, and control of the clinical safety work programme.

Facilitate the planning, coordination and delivery of Trust-wide digital clinical safety activities across multiple systems and programmes. Develop and maintain integrated clinical safety delivery plans, timelines and trackers aligned to programme and deployment schedules. Coordinate safety activity across system life cycles, including configuration, testing, deployment, optimisation and retirement. Proactively identify delivery risks, capacity issues or dependencies and elevate appropriately. Operate with autonomy to prioritise work streams and adjust plans in response to changing programme needs.

Manage delegated resources for delivery of clinical safety assurance activities (e.g., coordinating assurance support, scheduling workshops, and prioritising activity within agreed capacity), ensuring delivery to time and within agreed constraints. Coordinate utilisation of delegated budgets for clinical safety training, assurance activity and external support, ensuring value for money and delivery against plan.

• Lead the coordination, quality assurance and control of:
  • Clinical Risk Management Plan and Strategies
  • Clinical safety Cases
  • Hazard logs
• Ensure documentation is complete, version‑controlled, proportionate and reviewed and amended throughout the life cycle of the healthcare system.
• Ensure documentation is fit for internal and external assurance.
• Maintain the Trust’s digital system register, clearly evidencing clinical safety status and assurance maturity.
• Coordinate Trust-wide DCB
  0160 deployment assurance for all digital system changes.
• Ensure Clinical Safety Facilitators, throughout the divisions, are trained, supported and compliant.
• Maintain the clinical safety training compliance register and the design and maintenance of the clinical safety communication platforms.
• Collate and quality‑check supplier DCB
  0129 compliance documentation, highlighting gaps or risks to the CSO.

• Facilitate the management of digital clinical safety risks and issues, ensuring accurate recording, tracking and escalation.
• Record, manage and track digital‑related patient safety incidents in LFPSE / Datix in line with PSIRF.
• Coordinate root cause analysis and digital safety investigations, ensuring actions are robust, proportionate and tracked to completion.
• Escalate overdue or deteriorating risks in line with agreed governance thresholds.
• Provide structured summaries of incident themes and learning to inform proactive risk management.

• Lead and facilitate highly complex and sometimes contentious discussions…