Chief (Nursing/AHP) Information Officer

Job summary

Digital Transformation is at the heart of the Trust's plans for delivering its Strategies. The Trust has set outits ambitions in Our strategy 2023-2033, that identifies six key themes that will allow The Trust to shape its digitalagenda in the coming years.

Velindre has recognised that now clinical informatics is a clinical speciality in it's own right. The need toensure tools provided to our clinical workforce are well designed, create opportunities to reduce clinical burden but most importantly enhance patient safety and meet professional standards in terms of record keeping.

The exciting transformation agenda of digital tools and clinical decision support comes with clinical risk akin to that of other new therapeuticinterventions and requires a robust clinical framework to manage the risk of patient harm and medico-legal implications for theorganisation and clinical colleagues.

Specialist knowledge and expertise is required in clinical informatics and digital risk management to lead and inform the development of strategic plans for Digital, Data and Technology which impact across the whole of the Trust, todevelop clinical risk management and clinical design policies, and protocols which impact on the care of patients/clients and to beresponsible for the implementation of these strategies and policies throughout the organisation.The post requires Nursing or Allied Health Professional registration.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the translator and main point of contact for nursing, other healthcare professionals, management and HealthInformatics professionals. The post holder will lead on nursing informatics work on the selection, development and deployment ofdigital solutions to ensure the effective and safe integration of technology into nursing practice.

o To represent the Trust at national level and will advise on national HI policies and strategies such as the Welsh NursingCare Record (WNCR) ensuring that the professional nursing / AHP / strategy Policy & Trust Clinical Futures and DigitalStrategy converge to form a coherent whole.

o To be recognised as a national expert, leading future Health Informatics development and presenting at national and internationallevel.

o The post holder will provide visible clinical leadership to all healthcare professionals at all levels of the organisation that areresponsible for the implementation of digital solutions. They will champion and promote innovation and stimulate a positive culturein the development of clinical informatics across the Trust and at a national level.

o The post holder will line manage the clinical digital nursing and AHP workforce as appointed e.g. EMPA

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edge Velindre Cancer Centre and ouraward-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.

Formed in 1994, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to apply the key principles of value based healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

Visit our website to find out more https://velindre.nhs.wales/