Chief Clinical Information Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Title:Chief Clinical Information Officer Location:[National Role] Salary:Competitive (Dependent on experience) Contract Type:Permanent Working Pattern:1 Professional Activity/Week

AtCygnet Group, we are committed to delivering safe, high-quality, and person-centred care through continuous innovation, compassionate leadership, and a strong digital foundation.

We are seeking a visionary and inclusiveChief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO)to lead our digital transformation journey across our national network of specialist mental health and social care services.

This is a pivotal leadership role that bridges clinical care and digital technology, ensuring we embed digital, data, and innovation into the heart of everything we do from improving patient outcomes to streamlining operations.

You should be someone who is committed to improving and strengthening an inclusive culture within Cygnet, where colleagues feel safe to speak up and be involved in shared decision-making. This creates a foundation for safe, high-quality care. As such, the ability to demonstrate fairness, inclusion and highly visible leadership are essential for this role.

You will be expected to embody Cygnets values ofIntegrity, Trust, Empowerment, Respect and Care, and be a highly visible leader committed to fostering a just and inclusive culture where all voices are heard, and colleagues feel empowered to speak up.

Youll enjoy an excellent leadership role committed to the success of Cygnet combined with a clinical role, while making a difference to our employees, services users & their families.

With us, youll have the chance to make your mark in a caring setting that has a positive impact on peoples lives.

If youre driven, forward-thinking & passionate about what you do, we want to hear from you.

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Job Responsibilities

The CCIO will take responsibility for:

• Providing strong clinical leadership in the strategic development, design, and implementation of digital, data, and technology to support better health and care, improved patient outcomes and experiences, and greater value and affordability.
• Setting a clear vision for future ways of working, ensuring clinical workflows and digital capabilities are aligned with estate and service transformation.
• Serving as a core member of key digital steering groups and boards, chairing as appropriate, and providing expert clinical guidance.
• Leading the clinical design of the model of care, supporting service transformation and future-proofed delivery across our pathways.
• Facilitating engagement with academic partners to leverage data for research and innovation.
• Convening and supporting a broader group of clinical leaders to actively participate in digital transformation programmes.
• Overseeing the strategic development, procurement, deployment, optimisation, and enhancement of clinical systems that underpin safe and effective care.
• Ensuring clinicians are empowered to use data and digital tools to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care.
• Operating and overseeing clinical safety assessments for all digital implementations and system changes.
• Ensuring digital programmes strike the right balance between improving performance, reducing delays in patient pathways, enhancing quality of care, and maintaining robust data security and confidentiality.
• Supporting deployment of digital systems across all clinical areas and taking on specific leadership responsibilities within key projects.
• Delivering tangible benefits and performance metrics in line with business cases for technology investment.
• Proactively addressing digital exclusion, recognising varied levels of digital literacy across stakeholders and tailoring engagement and communication accordingly.
• Using excellent communication and relationship-building skills to maintain and improve Cygnets reputation as an exemplar for digital services.

We are looking for someone who has...

• Current professional registration (e.g. GMC, NMC, HCPC)
• Evidence of continuous professional development, ideally including digital and informatics experience
• Qualified Clinical Safety Officer (or willing to undergo traini

Person Specification

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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.

Employer details

Employer name

Cygnet Health Care

Address

London

SW1P 3JA

Employer's website

https://www.cygnethealth.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)