Lead Clinical Safety Officer

Job summary
NHS Band 8A Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Hours Per Week: Full time, 37.5 hrs
Contract Type: Temporary for 12 months
Location Base: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Corporate Hub, Block 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Western Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN

OR St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG

The Lead Clinical Safety Officer provides expert, independent clinical safety leadership across Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust and Isle of Wight NHS Trust. The role ensures all digital clinical systems are safe to design, deploy, use and decommission, with full compliance to DCB
0129 and DCB
0160.
You will lead the clinical risk management process for Health IT systems, owning Clinical Safety Cases, Hazard Logs and all associated safety documentation. You'll identify and manage clinical risks, review digital related incidents, support root cause analysis and make clear recommendations on whether systems are safe to go live or require further mitigation.
Main duties of the job
Specific Core Functions

• Lead the clinical risk management process for all digital systems.
• Maintain Clinical Safety Cases and Hazard Logs.
• Provide expert clinical safety advice across digital programmes.
• Ensure compliance with DCB
  0129/DCB
  0160 and NHS England guidance.
• Support incident review, root cause analysis, and learning dissemination.
• Promote safe cross site digital communication and interoperability.
• Represent the organisation in regional and national safety forums.

About us
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Dis Ability, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements.

We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans' status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
Job responsibilities
Working independently of programme teams, you'll give objective assurance to senior digital leaders and communicate complex safety issues in a way clinicians and non-clinicians can act on. You'll provide clinical safety leadership across major digital programmes including EPR, diagnostics, interoperability and communications, ensuring safety is built into governance, testing and go live readiness.
The role also supports cross boundary digital safety with the ICB, primary care and partner organisations, ensuring safe information flow across the wider system.
This post is central to reducing patient harm, strengthening digital assurance and making sure clinical systems across both Trusts are safe, effective and fit for purpose.
This role requires a highly experienced clinician with strong clinical…