Associate Chief Nursing Information Officer

NHS England

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Job summary

Are you a visionary nurse leader committed to the delivery of digital innovation and transformation of services? The NHSE South West regional Digital Team is seeking an experienced Associate Chief Nursing Information Officer to join our dynamic team. As the Associate CNIO, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of healthcare delivery across the region by integrating clinical practice with cutting-edge information systems and data flows.

The regional Digital Team is passionate about supporting our Integrated Care Systems across the South West to delivery transformational change that becomes embedded into routine practice. To ensure innovations are sustained, you will bring a deep understanding of user-centred design and apply this in conjunction with their clinical expertise.

The Associate CNIO will work closely across Digital, Medical, and Nursing teams in the region, providing strategic leadership for nurses and clinical leads from a wide range of health and care providers and health systems, all focused on the delivery of an ambitious digital agenda.

Main duties of the job

Further details of the role and required skills of the post-holder are in the attached Job Description. In summary, we are looking for a registered nurse and credible clinical leader, with the main duties of the role including:

Strategic Leadership: collaborate with Digital, Clinical, and Executive Leads from providers and Integrated Care Systems/Boards to develop and execute the strategic vision for nursing informatics. Develop and lead the CNIO network across the SW region.

Programme support: clinical safety and nursing expertise input into regional digital deployment programmes. Role is responsible for ensuring the perspective of users is at the centre of all design and delivery. Includes the coordination of user-centred design initiatives across a range of regional digital programmes.

Liaison with national team: ensuring alignment between regional developments and national strategy. Influence of national direction through escalation of regional views based on a deep understanding of users' issues and opportunities.

Digital Team member: actively participating in the regional digital team, championing the nursing voice, clinical safety and user-centred design, with line management responsibilities as required.

Whilst many meetings and engagements may be conducted virtually, the post-holder will be expected to travel to a range of sites across the SW region both in their leadership capacity and as part of the programme support function.

About us

In April 2023, NHS England, NHS Digital, and Health Education England merged to create a new, single organisation to lead the NHS in England. This new NHS England is designed to create a simpler, smaller, high performing, organisation that leads the NHS more effectively and is a better place to work. Speaking with one voice to the service.

The new NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

  • Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
  • Making the NHS agreat place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
  • Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
  • Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
  • Delivering value for money.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/ .

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.

Date posted

01 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£58,972 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

990-S3-SW-1756

Job locations

Any South West Regional Office

Taunton

TA1 2PX


Job description

Job responsibilities

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Essential

  • To influence and support nurse advice on user design.
  • To support the empowerment of nurses and midwives to engage with and influence digital transformation in organisations and ICSs.
  • To raise the profile of nurses working in digital transformation.
  • Working with teams across the South West to help identify, agree and deliver a pan South West initiative building on the changes made during the pandemic, e.g. virtual consultations, remote monitoring, etc.
  • Working with Health Education England to map nursing and midwifery digital capability so as to develop a plan for the South West.
  • To support further development of the South West CNIO network. As a clinical digital leader, the post holder will support nursing and midwifery workforce productivity and clinical optimisation and contribute to work on relevant projects alongside digital workforce transformation colleagues and groups. They will also promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate information culture across the organisation. Promoting the effective use of data for nursing outcomes, knowledge and technology to support quality improvements and nursing informatics research, which will benefit service users in their recovery and support carers. The CNIO will support a sustainable governance framework for the review and development of evidenced based clinical content for Electronic Patient Records.
Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Essential

  • To influence and support nurse advice on user design.
  • To support the empowerment of nurses and midwives to engage with and influence digital transformation in organisations and ICSs.
  • To raise the profile of nurses working in digital transformation.
  • Working with teams across the South West to help identify, agree and deliver a pan South West initiative building on the changes made during the pandemic, e.g. virtual consultations, remote monitoring, etc.
  • Working with Health Education England to map nursing and midwifery digital capability so as to develop a plan for the South West.
  • To support further development of the South West CNIO network. As a clinical digital leader, the post holder will support nursing and midwifery workforce productivity and clinical optimisation and contribute to work on relevant projects alongside digital workforce transformation colleagues and groups. They will also promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate information culture across the organisation. Promoting the effective use of data for nursing outcomes, knowledge and technology to support quality improvements and nursing informatics research, which will benefit service users in their recovery and support carers. The CNIO will support a sustainable governance framework for the review and development of evidenced based clinical content for Electronic Patient Records.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

NHS England

Address

Any South West Regional Office

Taunton

TA1 2PX


Employer's website

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

NHS England

Address

Any South West Regional Office

Taunton

TA1 2PX


Employer's website

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/working-for/ (Opens in a new tab)


For questions about the job, contact:

Director of Digital Transformation

Stephen Trowell

stephen.trowell@nhs.net

Date posted

01 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£58,972 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

990-S3-SW-1756

Job locations

Any South West Regional Office

Taunton

TA1 2PX


Supporting documents

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