Medical Device Safety Officer

An opportunity has arisen to work closely with Corporate Nursing, Medical Engineering and the Divisional teams for a Medical Devices Safety Officer (MDSO). Applications welcome from registered nursing, midwifery, allied health professional staff in addition to those that have come through other roles., The MDSO's key role is to promote reporting and learning and safe use of medical devices across our organisation and be the main expert resource in this practice area. In addition to improving the quality of reporting, the MDSO would serve as the essential link between the identification and implementation of (local and national) medical device safety initiatives and the daily operations to improve the safe use of medical devices.

Leads on the investigation of serious device related incidents or significant near misses to determine root causes, implementing the necessary changes in procedure, training, or culture to reduce the likelihood of reoccurrence as far a is practically possible.

In conjunction with the Head of Clinical Engineering leads medical device governance for the Trust creating a program of medical device safety improvement including Improving the frequency and quality of incident reports involving devices. Responding to nationally reported device safety initiatives.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.


• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.


• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.


The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.