Job summary
The Lancashire and South Integrated Care Board(ICB) was formally established as a new statutory body on 1 July 2022, replacing the eight clinical commissioning groups across Lancashire and South Cumbria.
Our role is to join up health and care services, improve people's health and wellbeing, and to make sure everyone has the same access to services and gets the best possible outcomes from treatment. We also oversee how money is spent and make sure health services work well and are of high quality.
Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB is a highly complex organisation serving a population of
over 1.8 million people across 4 places. From a demographic perspective, there are some real challenges within Lancashire and South Cumbria with nearly a third of our residents living in some of the most deprived areas across England.
Main duties of the job
Take responsibility and accountability alongside the ICB Chief Digital Officer and Digital Senior Leadership Team for the strategic direction of Digital and Data technology design, implementation, and delivery.
Provide high quality clinical and Digital leadership across the organisation in collaboration with other stakeholders.
Serve as a Digital and Data / Clinical informatics advisor to the ICB's Chief Nursing Officer and other senior Clinical leaders.
Act as a champion for Digital by promoting innovation and the development of a Digital and Data culture by identifying and sharing opportunities for improvements in care work practices that result from digitally enabled clinical initiatives.
Ensure that all key stakeholders are consulted in the design, delivery, and evaluation of Digital and Data systems, including patients, carers, clinicians, technical and programme teams and best practice groups.
Ensure that proposed service redesigns will be effective and safe in improving clinical practice and patient care outcomes, whilst adhering to clinical, nursing, care professional and Digital standards.
Along with the CCIO, oversee the development of a benefits realisation framework for all clinical systems ensuring that there is a robust process in place to track the impact of the deployment of technologies on clinical outcomes.
About us
Risk ManagementYou are required to contribute to the control of risk and use the incident reporting system to alert the ICB of incidents or near misses that may compromise the quality of services.
Equality & DiversityThe ICB is committed to equality and diversity and works hard to make sure all staff and service users have access to an environment that is open and a free from discrimination. As an ICB we value the diversity of our staff and service users, and therefore recognise and appreciate that everyone associated with the ICB is different and so should be treated in ways that are consistent with their needs and preferences.In support of this all staff are required to be aware of the ICB's Equality and Diversity Policy and the commitments and responsibilities the ICB has to:
Eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and other conduct prohibited by the Act
Advance equality of opportunity between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do not.
Foster good relations between people who share a protected characteristic and those who do notWe firmly believe that it makes good business sense to have a workforce representative of the communities we serve and so encourage applications from all sections of the community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Chief Nursing Informatics Officer LSC ICB (CNIO)
Full time - Two Year Tenure Secondment
Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board has ambitious plans to tackle the long-standing health inequalities that exist within our geography. We respect that communities know what they need best and aim to nurture a culture that embraces shared learning and supports clinical and care professional leaders to collaborate and innovate with a wide range of partners, including patients and local communities.
Through our clinical and care professional leadership framework you will be a part of a new way of working that aims to support health and social care to work effectively together, support care to be locally delivered, managed and planned and improve access by collaborating in care delivery to collectively manage vulnerable services.
You should be a qualified Nurse, have exceptional communication skills and be confident at working to develop effective relationships and work in partnership.
You should have a strong, demonstrable understanding of current health and social care national aims and policies in your chosen specialist area as well as robust local knowledge of the determinants and barriers to providing user focused services in this area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical and Care Professional Lead - Chief Nursing Informatics Officer LSC ICB (CNIO)
Full time - Two Year Tenure Secondment
Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board has ambitious plans to tackle the long-standing health inequalities that exist within our geography. We respect that communities know what they need best and aim to nurture a culture that embraces shared learning and supports clinical and care professional leaders to collaborate and innovate with a wide range of partners, including patients and local communities.
Through our clinical and care professional leadership framework you will be a part of a new way of working that aims to support health and social care to work effectively together, support care to be locally delivered, managed and planned and improve access by collaborating in care delivery to collectively manage vulnerable services.
You should be a qualified Nurse, have exceptional communication skills and be confident at working to develop effective relationships and work in partnership.
You should have a strong, demonstrable understanding of current health and social care national aims and policies in your chosen specialist area as well as robust local knowledge of the determinants and barriers to providing user focused services in this area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with extensive nursing leadership experience
- Master's degree level or equivalent professional qualification.
- Clinical Safety Officer trained (or willing to undertake)
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in digital/informatics related discipline
- Digital Academy Graduate
- Project Management training i.e., Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent
- Member or Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) or associated professional body
Experience
Essential
- Experience of developing and delivering clinical projects, which could include informatics interventions to improve care quality.
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting with demonstrated success in overcoming resistance to a change in nursing practice.
- Proven ability to engage effectively with service users and carers, and other key stakeholders within and outside the organisation, and in a multi- professional environment.
Desirable
- Involvement with national initiatives which could include nursing research to support the delivery of evidence-based nursing practice.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2, Agile or Managing Successful Projects
Leadership & Management
Essential
- Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT systems within the organisation a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
- High level presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in different settings in both 1:1 setting and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc.).
- Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multistranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment
- High level influencing skills: able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and an interest in emerging technologies, clinical information systems, outcomes and measures.
- Change management: managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment.
- Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of nursing information-enabled change and drive through these benefits through to fruition.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Act as an ambassador for the Trust at all times Demonstrates a transformational and coaching leadership style.
- Passionate about informatics and technology as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support of nursing and AHP professional practice.
- Ability to command respect from the clinical and non-clinical professions.
- Demonstrates a transformational and coaching leadership style.
Special Aptitudes
Essential
- A progressive thinker who would relish the opportunity to improve the delivery of clinical care and fundamentally change how healthcare professionals will work in the context of the NHS modernisation agenda.
- Positive commitment to Data Sharing and the development of richer access to more robust data sets to drive improvement across health and well-being
- Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised, completing all work with attention to detail and a willingness to share information.
- Desire to continue to learn and develop on a personal and professional on an on-going basis.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse with extensive nursing leadership experience
- Master's degree level or equivalent professional qualification.
- Clinical Safety Officer trained (or willing to undertake)
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in digital/informatics related discipline
- Digital Academy Graduate
- Project Management training i.e., Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent
- Member or Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) or associated professional body
Experience
Essential
- Experience of developing and delivering clinical projects, which could include informatics interventions to improve care quality.
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting with demonstrated success in overcoming resistance to a change in nursing practice.
- Proven ability to engage effectively with service users and carers, and other key stakeholders within and outside the organisation, and in a multi- professional environment.
Desirable
- Involvement with national initiatives which could include nursing research to support the delivery of evidence-based nursing practice.
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2, Agile or Managing Successful Projects
Leadership & Management
Essential
- Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT systems within the organisation a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
- High level presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in different settings in both 1:1 setting and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc.).
- Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multistranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment
- High level influencing skills: able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and an interest in emerging technologies, clinical information systems, outcomes and measures.
- Change management: managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment.
- Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of nursing information-enabled change and drive through these benefits through to fruition.
Personal Skills
Essential
- Act as an ambassador for the Trust at all times Demonstrates a transformational and coaching leadership style.
- Passionate about informatics and technology as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support of nursing and AHP professional practice.
- Ability to command respect from the clinical and non-clinical professions.
- Demonstrates a transformational and coaching leadership style.
Special Aptitudes
Essential
- A progressive thinker who would relish the opportunity to improve the delivery of clinical care and fundamentally change how healthcare professionals will work in the context of the NHS modernisation agenda.
- Positive commitment to Data Sharing and the development of richer access to more robust data sets to drive improvement across health and well-being
- Self-motivated and able to work unsupervised, completing all work with attention to detail and a willingness to share information.
- Desire to continue to learn and develop on a personal and professional on an on-going basis.
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
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).