Job summary
Join us as a Nursing or Allied Health Professional Information Officer (NIO/AHPIO)Band: 8b | Location: Hybrid (CNWL Sites + Remote)
Are you a passionate nurse or allied health professional who's excited by the power of digital to transform care? Do you believe that the systems we use should work for us - not the other way around? At Central & North West London NHS Foundation Trust, we're on a bold digital journey to empower our clinicians to help lead the way and we're looking for a Nursing or Allied Health Professional Information Officer (NIO/AHPIO) to join our team.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
Main duties of the job
This is a clinical digital leadership role at the heart of our digital leadership team - and as an innovative role, it's as much about supporting the use of new technologies as it is about unlocking the potential of doing more with what we've already got. You'll play a key role in shaping how digital tools support frontline care, always through the lens of nursing and allied health professional practice.
You will:
- Champion smarter use of our existing electronic health records (EHRs) and digital systems across the Trust
- Co-design and optimise digital workflows that improve care quality, patient safety, and staff experience
- Help drive and embed our user-centred design approach, ensuring that clinicians and patients are part of every step of digital development
- Act as a bridge between clinical teams and the digital world, translating clinical need into digital change
- Support local innovation, digital capability building, and transformation at scale.
You are a registered nurse or AHP with:
- Deep understanding of frontline challenges - and a passion for solving them
- Curiosity about digital tools and how they can improve care
- Great communication and influencing skills - you're someone who can bring people with you
- Experience in digital projects or quality improvement (desirable, but not essential - we'll support your growth)
About us
We're passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient's own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.Providingtop quality caredepends on our ability to employ the best people.
We're always looking to recruit outstanding peoplewho will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we're hoping to find our future leaders and we'll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.With adiverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more - whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working with the Associate Director of Digital Transformation, the purpose of the role will be to act as a conduit between clinical practice and digital systems; ensuring the design, implementation and optimisation of electronic health records and digital tools align with the needs to nurses and allied health professionals and improve patient care.
The role will champion the voices of nursing and allied health professionals in digital transformation programmes, support the safe and effective use of data and technology and help embed digital literacy across clinical teams.
The role will be pivotal in driving innovation, enhancing workflow efficiency and ensuring that digital solutions support person-centred across community and mental health services
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working with the Associate Director of Digital Transformation, the purpose of the role will be to act as a conduit between clinical practice and digital systems; ensuring the design, implementation and optimisation of electronic health records and digital tools align with the needs to nurses and allied health professionals and improve patient care.
The role will champion the voices of nursing and allied health professionals in digital transformation programmes, support the safe and effective use of data and technology and help embed digital literacy across clinical teams.
The role will be pivotal in driving innovation, enhancing workflow efficiency and ensuring that digital solutions support person-centred across community and mental health services
Person Specification
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
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Extensive nursing experience in clinical practice
- 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
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
- Full Driving Licence
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
Person Specification
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
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Extensive nursing experience in clinical practice
- 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
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
- Full Driving Licence
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
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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).
