Head of Digital Nursing & Nursing Information Officer

Job responsibilities

• To provide strategic and professional leadership on the ongoing development of health informatics. Supporting changes in working practice, digital system implementation and workforce digitisation to enable this
• Oversee the development and optimisation of the Electronic Health Record
• Partner in the leadership of digital health, including but not limited to, analytics, decision support, and workflow support in service of the quality and patient safety goals of the organisation
• Support on components of the transformation of the management and use of data within The Trust and its Partners, by setting standards and principles and opening up data flows across the Trust and its partners
• Provide expert clinical advice and guidance to foster and develop clinical staff, the Trusts management and digital services about the adoption and application of digital health
• To lead on developing a digitally enabled workforce that leverages technology to support improved clinical practice and enable improved decision making. To lead on changing the culture of the workforce to accept digital as an intrinsic component of their working lives
• Identify and prioritise the opportunities for standardisation, best practice across clinical care with a focus on the use of Healthtech, decision support, workflows and pathways to drive improvement
• Ensure that appropriate citizen engagement is developed and that the health informatics agenda and solutions are co-designed in line with local population need
• Develop and mature the framework in relation to clinical safety ensuring sustainability and implementation across the Trust and its partners
• Oversee the ongoing development and coordination of clinical safety case reports and ensuring our use and adoption of healthcare technologies is supported by recognised processes for governing risk
• Provide expert clinical overview to the design and development of identified informatics driven change programmes strategies, plans and activity; to ensure they deliver safe, effective, evidence-based and accessible services and systems to meet the health and care knowledge and information needs of patients and clinicians
• Be part of the continued professional development of Health Informatics nationally and provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to senior leadership and clinical colleagues
• Work with key stakeholders and clinical professionals to ensure they are consulted in the design, delivery and evaluation of clinical informatics systems, including patients, carers, clinicians, technical and programme teams and best practice groups
• Embed and champion the role of Health Informatics to empower professionals and people in safe and effective care
• Promote innovation and champion the development of an information culture that drives continuous improvement across the organisation including creation of white papers and case studies
• Lead pan-organisational Healthtech innovations and their application through effective evaluation of clinical effectiveness leading to large transformation quality improvement initiatives
• Ensure that informatics is used to inform and monitor proposed service redesigns approaches to care delivery, decision making so that they are effective in improving clinical practice and citizen outcomes
• Monitor regional, national, and international development of health informatics and informatics standards and apply best practice within the organisation
• Determine and advise senior management on implications of national and local informatics policy/strategy development from a clinical perspective
• Ensure that the structures are in place to monitor effective and valid information flows within health care systems which are necessary for the delivery of clinical care driving up data quality, including quality standards through the principle of keeping a high quality clinical record
• Provide leadership to drive the transformation of clinical services to create a safer, higher quality and efficient service that utilises digital as an enabler to support practice leading both locally and with health and social care partners
• Support teams of clinical, technical, professional and management staff in the successful fulfilment of Digital and Operational services, programme, and delivery commitments
• Provide professional management for clinical staff working in digital and across digital programmes

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Nursing professional with degree qualification (or relevant experience)
• Active Registration with the NMC
• Evidence of on-going continuous professional development

Desirable

• Qualification in Health Informatics
• Qualification in Health Leadership

ABILITIES: Physical

Essential

• Advanced Keyboard Skills

Desirable

• Full Driving Licence

ABILITIES: Working Conditions

Essential

• Predominately desk based, using a computer
• Exposure to unpleasant working conditions or hazards will be rare
• Requirement to travel to other sites and venues

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Extensive experience in clinical practice as a Nurse
• Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of clinical services and changing clinical working practice
• Competent in the use of Health Informatics and has a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
• Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of multi-professional stakeholders within and outside the organisation
• Delivering through individual and team contribution, leading, developing and influencing others
• Appreciation of role of Clinical Informatics in current NHS context

Desirable

• Experience of development of clinical pathways
• Experience of development of clinical informatics systems or implementation of technology
• Experience of working across informatics silos e.g. pan-organisational initiatives
• Experience of working with commercial providers
• Develops and implements a performance culture aligned to business values and organisational objectives
• Working in a continuous improvement culture, driving value for money service delivery and service development

SKILLS: Communication / relationship

Essential

• Ability to provide a strategic overview of the role of Health Informatics and Information systems to support high quality of care and organisational effectiveness
• High level influencing and negotiating skills
• High level of personal resilience and ability to deal with complexity, competing demands and uncertain outcomes
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Proven experience of working at a very high level in planning and understanding dependencies and working on strategic planning
• Proven ability to organise self and others, prioritise work effectively and to deliver to tight deadlines
• Able to work under pressure with changing and sometimes conflicting priorities, with limited supervision
• Able to work flexibly and in partnership with others
• Capacity for independent working
• Demonstrable ability to present highly complex plans and cases to a wide and varied audience in a simple easy to understand way
• An analytical approach to problem solving in highly complex situations
• Politically aware and able to handle sensitive issues taking a balanced and proportionate approach
• Excellent interpersonal skills together with the drive to work with others to implement changes
• The ability to communicate ideas coherently and confidently, in both technical and non technical terms
• Effectively negotiates with and influences internal and external contacts

Desirable

• Customer focused approach to delivering planned and defined services to internal customers
• Demonstrable ability to lead and manage services, programmes, and operations unaided, displaying initiative and an innovative approach where necessary

SKILLS: Analytical/ judgmental

Essential

• High level of numeracy, analytical, statistical and research skills with ability to analyse and interpret complex situations
• An analytical approach to problem solving in highly complex situations
• Making decisions at the appropriate time, taking into account the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints and the availability of necessary
• Cross-functional and inter-disciplinary awareness, understanding the needs, objectives and constraints of those in other disciplines and functions

SKILLS: Planning/ organisational

Essential

• Proven experience of working at a very high level in planning and understanding dependencies and working on strategic planning
• Experience of multitask working
• Proven ability to organise self and others, prioritise work effectively and to deliver to tight deadlines
• Able to work under pressure with changing and sometimes conflicting priorities, with limited supervision
• Able to work flexibly and in partnership with others
• Capacity for independent working

Desirable

• Expertise in process improvement, data analysis and the use of information systems to develop and support outcome measurement

SKILLS: IT

Essential

• Direct working experience of Microsoft Office Applications and planning and management tools
• Very good experience and understanding of the use of technology solutions to enable complex workflows and advanced data processing

Desirable

• Understanding of basic system architecture, data standards in clinical systems, basic software terminology and basic syntax

SKILLS: Human Resources

Essential

• Able to coach and influence others
• Able to assess development needs of others

ABILITIES: Mental & Emotional

Essential

• Reliable under pressure
• Able to enthuse and motivate others
• Attention to detail and accuracy
• Able to quickly learn new applications, analysis and modelling tools
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated
• Able to manage indirect exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances on rare occasions

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).