National Professional Advisor and Digital Clinical Safety Officer

Job summary

Make a difference

Every role at CQC contributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Primary & Community Care that gives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it!

As a National Professional Advisor and Digital Clinical Safety Officer, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring our regulatory approach and the digital systems we use to deliver it, are clinically safe, professionally robust and designed to protect people while enabling smarter, more responsive regulation.

Picture this

Imagine influencing how CQC adopts and implements new digital technologies, while also providing national clinical leadership that shapes how Primary & Community Health Services are regulated. Your work will help ensure our systems are safe, our decisions are informed, and innovation truly benefits the public.

In the last year in this role, you might have:

· Worked as part of a triumvirate leadership model alongside the Chief Inspector, Director and Deputy Director, to deliver key portfolios that support Primary and Community Care regulatory priorities.

· Ensured our digital improvement and rebuild programmes used strong clinical hazard identification, risk-management and assurance processes aligned to national safety standards.

Job description

The role

You’ll be key in helping us deliver our work. The role will include:

• Clinical Leadership: Ensuring expert advice and support are consistently provided to inspectorate and registration colleagues, particularly in relation to complex or high-risk matters.

• Quality and Safety: Influencing how CQC uses data to identify risk, monitor quality, and improve outcomes for people who use services.

• Digital Clinical Safety Leadership: Supporting the design, build and implementation of digital systems to ensure the safety of patients and service users is protected and promoted, in line with our commitment to listen, act, inform and protect the public and to help providers and systems of care improve and innovate.

• Digital Clinical Risk Management and Assurance: Ensuring digital clinical risk management processes are implemented during our digital improvement programme, and comply with relevant guidelines, standards and best practice

• Reporting directly to the Chief Inspector of Primary and Community Health Services, with matrix management from the Chief Data, Digital and Registration Officer. You’ll represent all sector inspectorates in the clinical safety aspects of this role.

Person specification

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We’ll be looking for the following skills, knowledge and experience in your application form:

• Extensive experience as a General Practitioner, andClinical Safety Officer / Chief Clinical Information Officer, with a strong track record as a leader in Primary Care and in digital health implementation, clinical governance, clinical risk management and digital clinical safety. You will be accredited as a Digital Clinical Safety Officer or have in depth experience with a will to go through an accreditation in post.

• Aregistered General Practitioner, with a strong working knowledge and deep understanding of Independent Healthcare within Primary and Community Care.

• Deep understanding of Primary and Community Care and the challenges of digital integration across diverse care settings.

• Proven ability to influence policy and strategy at a national level, with exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Benefits

• Annual leave starting at 27 days per year, rising to 32.5 days with service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
• Training and development opportunities.
• Wellbeing initiatives, such as gym discounts and meditation.
• NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution.
• Discount schemes (including eligibility for Blue Light card, costing £4.99 and valid for 2 years), reward vouchers, car leasing and more!

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

Next steps

If you apply, you’ll need to create a profile and complete an online application form. Your application will be completely anonymous. Please see our information for applicants for more details on the process. We contact every applicant to let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether you are shortlisted.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Resourcing Team
• Email : recruitment@cqc.org.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@cqc.org.uk

Further information

https://cqc.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/2/home/requisition/2890?c=cqc