Clinical Safety Officer – Remote

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Here at Optum, we are excited to share that we are currently recruiting for a Clinical Safety Officer to join our collaborative Clinical team on a permanent basis.

Patient safety is our number one priority, and as one of our Clinical Safety Officers you will be a fundamental part of Optum UK ensuring that we implement and maintain clinical safety standards and processes across the business.

Working remotely, you will be joining an established team of Clinical Safety Officers from varied clinical backgrounds, reporting into our Head of Clinical Safety. Our Clinical Safety Team work remotely and meet face to face, monthly at one of our office sites.

As this opportunity is all about promoting a culture of clinical safety you will work across the wider business, so you’ll need to be a solid communicator and team player.

If you want to be part of a company where you are valued and what you do genuinely makes a difference, then apply today!

What you’ll do:  

As a Clinical Safety Officer, you will work across our health technology portfolio maintaining the safety of our clinical systems. You will manage clinical safety related risks and ensure regulatory requirements are met through the production of documentation to meet the DCB0129 standard to ensure the delivery of safe clinical products. 

We’re looking for collaborators to work alongside a variety of business areas, ensuring new and existing software is clinically safe as well as playing a part in the safe design of new IT products, in addition to planning for software releases and quickly reacting to new incidents as they arise. 

Who You’ll Be:
We need you to be a registered clinician (for example, a nurse, pharmacist, physiotherapist or other allied health professional) and have a current registration with a professional UK governing body.  You will be a self-starter, with the ability to create relationships with the wider organisation stakeholders quickly.  In addition, you will need to have the ability to learn at pace.

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Professional skills we are looking for you to demonstrate include: 

• Ideally a background or experience in clinical risk management / clinical governance & standards, with the ability to apply that knowledge to any healthcare setting
• Proven knowledge / experience of different care settings
• Excellent IT and report writing skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Confident in being able to make decisions and justify the rationale for your decision
• Proven knowledge of Clinical Safety in Health IT
• Demonstrated understanding of medical devices and the clinical safety regulations associated

*All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes – an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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