Clinical Safety Officer

* Please note that this is a 12-month fixed-term contract

Are you an experienced clinical professional with a passion for patient safety and digital innovation?

BPAS is looking for an Interim Clinical Safety Officer to provide clinical safety leadership across our digital health systems, ensuring technology supports safe, effective and patient-centred care.

Working closely with clinical, operational and digital teams, you will lead clinical risk management, provide assurance for existing systems and support the development of our future clinical systems strategy. You will play a key role in ensuring digital innovation improves access, quality and efficiency without compromising patient safety.

About You

You will have current, unrestricted registration with a UK healthcare professional body, appropriate clinical experience and recognised Clinical Safety Officer training covering DCB0129 and DCB0160. You will have experience providing clinical safety assurance for digital health systems, with a strong understanding of clinical risk management, hazard assessments and patient safety.

You will be an analytical, collaborative and confident professional, able to provide independent advice, challenge decisions and escalate risks where necessary. Experience of digital healthcare systems, clinical safety documentation and working across clinical and technical teams is essential.

Main duties of the job

You will establish and strengthen BPAS' Clinical Risk Management System, providing clinical safety oversight of our existing booking and clinical record systems, BIS and CAS2. You will identify and assess clinical risks, maintain hazard logs and safety cases, and ensure appropriate controls and assurance arrangements are in place.

You will support BPAS' future clinical systems strategy, providing clinical safety input into system requirements, procurement, selection, testing, implementation and data migration where required. You will also lead multidisciplinary risk assessments, review supplier safety evidence and provide independent clinical safety advice to senior stakeholders.

You will support the investigation of digital incidents and near misses, develop clinical safety guidance, contribute to staff training and provide governance reporting on risks and outstanding actions. You will ensure patient safety remains central to digital development and delivery, escalating concerns and recommending appropriate action where risks are not adequately controlled.

This is a 12-month fixed-term opportunity to support BPAS' digital transformation while maintaining the highest standards of patient safety and clinical care.

About us

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) is the UK's largest independent reproductive healthcare charity, providing evidence-based, not-for-profit reproductive healthcare. We work mainly on behalf of the NHS, offering abortion care, contraception, and STI testing and treatment across the country.

When you join BPAS, you become part of a values-driven organisation where compassion, professionalism, and choice guide everything we do. You will help remove barriers to safe reproductive care while supporting people to make informed choices about their health and futures.

Working with us - benefits include:

34 days annual leave (including bank holidays)

Life assurance at 3 salary

Defined contribution pension scheme

Access to GP 24/7, 365 days a year

MyMindPal mental fitness app and 24/7 counselling support

Online discounts, discounted gym membership, and other lifestyle benefits

Family-friendly policies to support work-life balance

Safeguarding, Equality & Diversity

BPAS is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone who uses our services, and all staff share this responsibility. Recruitment follows safer-recruitment principles and includes appropriate pre-employment checks.

We actively welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. We are proud to be an inclusive employer and will make reasonable adjustments to ensure a fair and accessible recruitment process for all candidates.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description and terms and conditions can both be found in the additional documents for you to download and review on the NHS Jobs website.

Further Information:

We may close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications, although we aim to keep it open long enough to ensure a diverse and representative applicant pool.

If you have any questions about the role or require adjustments to support your application, please get in touch, we are happy to help.

Salary £68,000 - £75,000 per annum - Depending on skills and experience.

Hours: 36h per week

Shift Pattern:

Monday - Thursday 09:00 - 05:00

Friday 09:00 - 03:30

Location: Hybrid with travel to the Head Office

BPAS Head Office Orion House, 2 Athena Drive, Tachbrook Park, Leamington Spa, CV34 6RQ

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Values & eligibility All applicants must be pro choice and support a woman's right to choose, in line with BPAS values and mission.

Application outcome All applicants must be pro choice and support a woman's right to choose, in line with BPAS values and mission. Applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.

References & pre-employment checks All offers of employment are conditional on satisfactory pre-employment checks. Applicants must provide three years of employment references, including reasons for leaving and details of any gaps in employment.

Person Specification

Application question 1 Clinical Safety and Risk Management

Essential

Please describe a specific situation in which you personally identified, assessed or managed a clinical safety risk associated with a healthcare IT system or digital service. What was the risk, what actions did you personally take to address it, and what was the outcome?

Application question 2 Managing Clinical Safety Concerns

Essential

Tell us about a time when you identified a patient safety concern relating to a digital system, system change or clinical workflow that required you to challenge a decision or escalate a concern. What happened, how did you approach the situation, and what was the outcome?

Application question 3. Clinical Safety Assurance and Improvement

Essential

Please provide an example of a digital healthcare project, system implementation or improvement initiative you have personally contributed to where patient safety was a key consideration. What was your role, how did you identify and manage the risks, and what did you learn from the experience?

Qualifications

Essential

Current unrestricted registration with a UK statutory healthcare professional body such as GMC, NMC, GPhC or HCPC, with appropriate post-registration clinical experience sufficient to exercise credible independent clinical safety judgement.

Completed recognised Clinical Safety Officer training covering DCB0129 and DCB0160, or equivalent demonstrably mapped training, with competence to undertake the role independently.

Degree-level clinical qualification or equivalent professional qualification and experience.

Evidence of continuing professional development in digital clinical safety, patient safety, clinical informatics or risk management.

Desirable

Postgraduate qualification or formal training in clinical informatics, digital health, human factors, patient safety, quality improvement or change management.

General

Essential

Do you support a woman's right to choose abortion?

Are you the family or friend of a current BPAS employee? If yes, please state the name and nature of the relationship

Are you aware we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role?

This is a hybrid role working between your home and BPAS Head Office (CV34 6RQ) can you travel?

Please state your Membership/Registration number along with your expiry/renewal date

Please state your Professional body and membership e.g. NMC Midwives (RM), GMC, HCPC

Desirable

Would you like to add any additional information to support your application?

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.