Safety Engineer- Digital Clinical Safety and Risk | NHS England in Leeds

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.

Key Accountabilities:

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

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.

Responsibilities include:

• Conduct clinical safety assessments and undertake clinical safety analyses using a broad selection of appropriate techniques.
• Facilitate and deliver Clinical Risk Management training.
• Develop relationships with suppliers and/or customers while planning and conducting clinical risk management activities for a release.
• Act in a way that is compliant with Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions in the discharge of budget management responsibilities, monitor expenditure on a regular basis.
• Budget holder for assigned function/team, budget setting with the Head of Department.
• Responsible for ongoing monitoring of expenditure against budget and ensuring the appropriate documentation is available for scrutiny.

Secondments: Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.