# Lead Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-clinical-safety-officer-cso/e8e45bcf-1b1e-4658-9e7a-a3a5bc6562be - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/lead-clinical-safety-officer-cso/e8e45bcf-1b1e-4658-9e7a-a3a5bc6562be.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** The James Cook University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Officer (discipline unspecified) - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-11-02T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-19T12:32:37.075Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cleveland/Middlesbrough/South_Tees_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Corporate_Services/Corporate_Services-v8354639 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8354639?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.southtees.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Are you passionate about improving patient safety through digital innovation? We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Lead Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) to lead and develop clinical safety governance across University Hospitals Tees. This is a pivotal leadership role responsible for ensuring that digital systems and transformation programmes are designed, implemented and maintained in a way that protects patient safety and supports high-quality care. Working closely with the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), clinicians, digital teams and suppliers, you will provide expert leadership on clinical risk management, ensuring compliance with national standards including DCB0160 and DCB0129. You will play a key role in shaping the Trust's digital future, providing assurance that innovative technologies, clinical systems and digital transformation programmes are safe, effective and deliver positive outcomes for patients and staff. This is an exciting opportunity for a registered healthcare professional with significant experience in clinical safety, digital health and risk management to influence strategic decision-making across one of the largest digital transformation programmes in the region. ### Main duties of the job As the Lead Clinical Safety Officer, you will lead the Trust's Clinical Safety function, providing strategic and operational oversight of clinical risk management for digital systems and services across University Hospitals Tees. You will ensure that patient safety risks associated with digital technologies are identified, assessed, mitigated and monitored throughout the lifecycle of systems and transformation programmes. Key responsibilities include: - Leading clinical safety assurance activities for digital programmes, system implementations and operational services. - Ensuring compliance with national clinical safety standards, including DCB0160 and supporting assurance of supplier compliance with DCB0129. - Leading clinical risk assessments, hazard identification workshops and maintenance of hazard logs. - Providing expert advice to clinicians, operational teams, senior leaders and suppliers on digital clinical safety risks and mitigations. - Developing and maintaining clinical safety policies, processes, safety cases and governance arrangements. - Monitoring, reporting and escalating digital clinical safety risks through appropriate governance structures. This role offers a unique opportunity to influence the safe adoption of digital technologies and support the delivery of a modern, digitally enabled healthcare service across University Hospitals Tees ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience working within a healthcare environment. - Experience of applying clinical safety and risk management processes to digital systems. - Experience of digital clinical system implementation, optimisation or support. - Experience of facilitating risk assessments, hazard identification workshops and maintaining hazard logs. - Experience of developing and implementing local policies, procedures or governance arrangements. - Experience of managing staff, including recruitment, appraisal, development and performance management. - Experience of working with clinicians, operational managers, digital teams and suppliers. - Experience of managing resources and contributing to budget management activities ### Personal Attributes **Essential** - Demonstrates integrity, sound judgement and discretion when handling sensitive information and high-risk issues. - Credible, resilient and professionally confident in advising on patient safety risks and challenging unsafe practice where required. - Collaborative, approachable and able to build effective working relationships across clinical, operational, technical and corporate teams. - Analytical, organised and able to manage a complex and changing workload effectively. - Committed to high standards of patient safety, governance, continuous improvement and professional development. - Able to travel across UHT sites and work flexibly in line with service requirements ### Knowledge and Skills **Essential** - Professional clinical knowledge acquired through registration as a Doctor, Nurse, Pharmacist, Physiotherapist or Allied Health Professional and supported by post-registration experience. - Specialist knowledge of clinical safety processes and digital clinical risk management acquired through training and practical experience - Knowledge of DCB0160 and DCB0129 standards and their application within healthcare organisations. - Knowledge of NHS digital systems, clinical workflows and governance arrangements. - Knowledge of patient safety, risk management and quality improvement principles. - Ability to analyse complex clinical, operational and digital information and determine appropriate courses of action. - Ability to communicate complex information clearly to a wide range of audiences. ### Qualifications and Training **Essential** - Registered Doctor, Nurse, Pharmacist, Allied Health Professional or other healthcare professional with live professional registration - Accredited Clinical Safety Officer, or able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge and commit to achieving accreditation within an agreed timeframe determined by UHT - Degree level professional qualification or equivalent level of knowledge through professional clinical experience. ## Documents - [friarage hospital map (pdf, 531.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2096) - [james cook campus map (pdf, 168.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2094) - [job description - lead cso (pdf, 451.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10680509) - [guidance notes for applicants (pdf, 113.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2093) - [clinical service units directorate (pdf, 116.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2423) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.