Job summary
- The Clinical Informatics Service (CIS) is a newly-developed service inSLaMdedicated to building a dataplatform that supports clinicians with the data they need when they needit.
- We created the proof-of-concept VIEWER platform (which you can access through theePJSfrontpage(called 'viewer tool') and are funded for 2 years to take this to a fully-operationalservice.
- We are looking for dedicated, passionate clinicians who are interested in digital and data to join us on secondment for 1-2 days per week to lead on specific digital projects.
Please note: We are keen to support internal progression and development. Should you wish to discuss this role with the team please contact David Codling - David.Codling@slam.nhs.uk
Given the duration of this secondment, we require this position to be filled as soon as practically possible.
Main duties of the job
The digital nurse will be helping to develop the digital tools to help community teams and will be ableto help teams to:
- Understand their data.
- Have their needs from a data platform understood.
- Give feedback about things that they would like or would like to change.
- Think about their workflows and how they can better adapt todata.
- Be at the forefront of leading digital transformation.
About us
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as 'good'.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role.We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I'm going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you'll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
About the Location
The job will be based at the IoPPN Main Building, part of the wider Denmark Hill campus shared by SLaM and King's College London. The IoPPN main building is home to theInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.
Denmark Hill is very well connected and staff can reach Victoria or Blackfriars stations in 10 minutes by train, and East London is 25 minutes by overground.
Job description
Job responsibilities
There are a variety of projects that the Clinical Informatics Service is currently working on, but for this role we are particularly interested in improving our offer to community teams around:
- Caseload management ensuring that community caseloads are managed effectively and fairly
- Physicalhealth making sure that care co-ordinators feel empowered to identify and escalate patients on theircaseload who need physical health support
To this end we would be looking for someone with:
- Knowledge a deep knowledge and understanding of how a care co-ordinator works, manages risk and complexityand workflow. A good knowledge of how this might be represented in thedata.
- Creativity using this knowledge to understand what problems are with the current workflows and think creativelyabout how and when data can be presented to optimise theirwork
- Leadership digital transformation requires being able to understand the needs of others, bring them alongside andmake room to experiment, learn and change. The ideal candidate will want to develop their leadershipskills
Full Job Description and Person Specification for Digital Nurse Band 6
Job description
Job responsibilities
There are a variety of projects that the Clinical Informatics Service is currently working on, but for this role we are particularly interested in improving our offer to community teams around:
- Caseload management ensuring that community caseloads are managed effectively and fairly
- Physicalhealth making sure that care co-ordinators feel empowered to identify and escalate patients on theircaseload who need physical health support
To this end we would be looking for someone with:
- Knowledge a deep knowledge and understanding of how a care co-ordinator works, manages risk and complexityand workflow. A good knowledge of how this might be represented in thedata.
- Creativity using this knowledge to understand what problems are with the current workflows and think creativelyabout how and when data can be presented to optimise theirwork
- Leadership digital transformation requires being able to understand the needs of others, bring them alongside andmake room to experiment, learn and change. The ideal candidate will want to develop their leadershipskills
Full Job Description and Person Specification for Digital Nurse Band 6
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current clinical professional registration.
- First level degree or equivalent.
Desirable
- A recognized teaching qualification.
- Formal and informal teaching experience.
Experience
Essential
- Maintains a competent level of skills within the clinical environment.
- Substantial post registration experience within a relevant setting.
- Maintains own professional development.
- Supervision /mentoring skills.
- Accommodates a number of perspectives and uses these to analyse, compare and interpret information before reaching a judgement, and acting on any decisions made.
- Works alongside technical and academic colleagues, bringing frontline clinical expertise to the development of digital tools.
- Maintain clinical skills by continuing to work in a clinical setting outside of the secondment.
Desirable
- Experience of quality improvement / change management practice.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the National Digital Agenda.
- Understands and works within codes of conduct and practice.
Skills
Essential
- Able to motivate, using strong negotiating and diplomacy skills.
- Evidence of good communication skills on application form.
- Able to work cross sites and community settings.
- Able to establish and maintain relationships across the Trust.
- Communicates sensitive and complex information both formally and
- The ability to negotiate, persuade and influence to achieve favourable outcomes for all concerned.
- Effectively disseminates a variety of information from diverse sources including accurate notes from meetings, conversations, letters, reports, memos and presentation aids.
- Fully understands the context in which complex problems arise and can coordinate multi-professional interventions.
- Deals effectively with problems within well-defined procedures and guidelines.
- Contribute to IT training programmes for staff across the Trust which are ongoing, being responsive to any changes/development within the organisation.
- Facilitates multi-professional teaching in line with individual and service needs with respect to IT.
- Physically able to perform the requirements of the role such as regular active clinical engagement undertaken throughout the Trust across all sites.
- The ability to use keyboard skills to an advanced level and use associated equipment.
- No direct responsibility for patient care but indirectly through the role of teaching/ mentoring /supervising individual members of staff in the clinical area.
- Delivers/ facilitates and organises teaching sessions, providing individuals with the knowledge and skills to deliver high standards of care.
- Works alongside key stakeholders to develop strategies for implementation of digital, including the re-design of workflows to incorporate digital innovation.
- Participates in identifying the financial and physical resources required during digital implementation in clinical areas.
- Provides advice and support to clinical staff across the trust including the provision of clinical supervision.
- Able to use own initiative to coordinate/facilitate EPR implementation in response to individuals/ managers and service needs.
- Works independently from broad guidelines in respect of EPR, seeking guidance from colleagues/line manager where necessary.
- Physically able to undertake the ongoing requirements of the role.
- Frequent requirement for prolonged concentration in respect of teaching and responding to unpredictable work patterns with interruptions.
- Displays exemplary standards of personal and professional behaviour and integrity at all times.
- Frequently required to deal with distressing and emotional situations involving individuals and groups of staff.
- Proactively seeks to recruit and retain staff as clinical champions for digital within the organisation.
- Based in an office environment but frequent visits to clinical environments with associated potential hazards.
- Required to access internally and external venues for work activity including a substantial amount of travelling between all Trust sites.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current clinical professional registration.
- First level degree or equivalent.
Desirable
- A recognized teaching qualification.
- Formal and informal teaching experience.
Experience
Essential
- Maintains a competent level of skills within the clinical environment.
- Substantial post registration experience within a relevant setting.
- Maintains own professional development.
- Supervision /mentoring skills.
- Accommodates a number of perspectives and uses these to analyse, compare and interpret information before reaching a judgement, and acting on any decisions made.
- Works alongside technical and academic colleagues, bringing frontline clinical expertise to the development of digital tools.
- Maintain clinical skills by continuing to work in a clinical setting outside of the secondment.
Desirable
- Experience of quality improvement / change management practice.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of the National Digital Agenda.
- Understands and works within codes of conduct and practice.
Skills
Essential
- Able to motivate, using strong negotiating and diplomacy skills.
- Evidence of good communication skills on application form.
- Able to work cross sites and community settings.
- Able to establish and maintain relationships across the Trust.
- Communicates sensitive and complex information both formally and
- The ability to negotiate, persuade and influence to achieve favourable outcomes for all concerned.
- Effectively disseminates a variety of information from diverse sources including accurate notes from meetings, conversations, letters, reports, memos and presentation aids.
- Fully understands the context in which complex problems arise and can coordinate multi-professional interventions.
- Deals effectively with problems within well-defined procedures and guidelines.
- Contribute to IT training programmes for staff across the Trust which are ongoing, being responsive to any changes/development within the organisation.
- Facilitates multi-professional teaching in line with individual and service needs with respect to IT.
- Physically able to perform the requirements of the role such as regular active clinical engagement undertaken throughout the Trust across all sites.
- The ability to use keyboard skills to an advanced level and use associated equipment.
- No direct responsibility for patient care but indirectly through the role of teaching/ mentoring /supervising individual members of staff in the clinical area.
- Delivers/ facilitates and organises teaching sessions, providing individuals with the knowledge and skills to deliver high standards of care.
- Works alongside key stakeholders to develop strategies for implementation of digital, including the re-design of workflows to incorporate digital innovation.
- Participates in identifying the financial and physical resources required during digital implementation in clinical areas.
- Provides advice and support to clinical staff across the trust including the provision of clinical supervision.
- Able to use own initiative to coordinate/facilitate EPR implementation in response to individuals/ managers and service needs.
- Works independently from broad guidelines in respect of EPR, seeking guidance from colleagues/line manager where necessary.
- Physically able to undertake the ongoing requirements of the role.
- Frequent requirement for prolonged concentration in respect of teaching and responding to unpredictable work patterns with interruptions.
- Displays exemplary standards of personal and professional behaviour and integrity at all times.
- Frequently required to deal with distressing and emotional situations involving individuals and groups of staff.
- Proactively seeks to recruit and retain staff as clinical champions for digital within the organisation.
- Based in an office environment but frequent visits to clinical environments with associated potential hazards.
- Required to access internally and external venues for work activity including a substantial amount of travelling between all Trust sites.
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).
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).
Employer details
Employer name
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
Address
CTI Office, 3rd Floor, East Wing, IoPPN Main Building
16 De Crespigny Park
London
SE5 8AF
Employer's website
https://www.slam.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
