Job summary
In this Clinical Lead role, you will join a varied pool of clinicians from different professions, working on products and services across NHS England's Transformation Directorate. You will play a key role in shaping the safe delivery of national programmes to provide clear benefits for citizens and patients, and support clinicians to provide better care.
Our Clinical Leads provide the framework and direction for our Clinical Informaticians working across programmes and involved in large scale change, as well as providing a key clinical voice to programme teams within Transformation Directorate.
The post holder(s) will support internal clinical safety and assurance activities, and provide oversight of the clinical aspects of programmes and projects within Transformation Directorate, deputising for the Senior Clinical Lead across a range of functions.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will be required to have regular contact with internal and external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex and contentious issues. You will also be expected to lead and support other clinicians across the organisation, ensuring programmes and services have access to appropriate clinical support and are represented in externally facing Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels or Clinical Advisory Groups. You will join a multi-professional team of experienced clinicians with a variety of clinical backgrounds, all of whom have chosen informatics as a specialist area of expertise. You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as the role of clinical informaticians becomes more important than ever before in supporting the safe and effective use of technology across health and social care services, for the benefit of patients and citizens.
About us
The 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 a great 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 visithttps://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.
NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker route you'll usually need to be paid the 'standard' salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the 'going rate' for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on the Government website.
Job description
Job responsibilities
As Clinical Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic national team in delivering an effective service across Health and Care sectors to implement policy and system transformation ensuring the professional collective voice of nursing, midwifery and care staff is at the centre of decision making of the organisation.
The post holder will act as operational lead a core digital nursing workstream that works to meet the CNIO vision:
- To ensure nurses have the knowledge and skills to practice and lead in a digitally enabled health and care system
- Practice is supported by the use of digital technology and data science
Job description
Job responsibilities
As Clinical Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic national team in delivering an effective service across Health and Care sectors to implement policy and system transformation ensuring the professional collective voice of nursing, midwifery and care staff is at the centre of decision making of the organisation.
The post holder will act as operational lead a core digital nursing workstream that works to meet the CNIO vision:
- To ensure nurses have the knowledge and skills to practice and lead in a digitally enabled health and care system
- Practice is supported by the use of digital technology and data science
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge
- Expert nursing knowledge of operational services and the relationship to the delivery of digitally enabled care across the system
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Must have a good understanding of digital transformation and professional issues related relevant to the nursing workforce
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Ability to write clear and concise papers, reports and presentations for a wide range of audiences, committees and publications.
- Ability to prioritise conflicting and changing demands, work independently and on own initiative and at pace to short deadlines.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge
- Expert nursing knowledge of operational services and the relationship to the delivery of digitally enabled care across the system
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Must have a good understanding of digital transformation and professional issues related relevant to the nursing workforce
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
Skills & Capabilities
Essential
- Ability to write clear and concise papers, reports and presentations for a wide range of audiences, committees and publications.
- Ability to prioritise conflicting and changing demands, work independently and on own initiative and at pace to short deadlines.
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).
