Job summary
In this Deputy Director role, you will join a diverse team of clinicians working across NHS England's Transformation Directorate. You will help shape the safe delivery of national programmes, ensuring clear benefits for patients and the public, and supporting clinicians to deliver better care.
Our Deputy Directors set direction and provide the framework for Clinical Informaticians leading large-scale change. You will also act as a key clinical voice within programme teams.
You will regularly engage with internal and external stakeholders, often on complex or sensitive issues. You will lead and support clinicians across the organisation, ensuring programmes have access to appropriate clinical input and are represented at Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels, or Advisory Groups.
You'll join a multi-professional team of experienced clinicians who have chosen informatics as their specialist field. It's an exciting time to join, as clinical informatics plays an increasingly vital role in the safe and effective use of technology across health and care.
Candidates must be registered and regulated health or care professionals, with advanced specialist knowledge and training as Clinical Safety Officers (CSOs).
Appointments may be made under Agenda for Change or Medical and Dental terms, depending on experience and professional registration.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will report to the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and will be working towards a generic job description. They will be responsible for leading clinical informaticians within the Transformation Directorate and maintains a strategic overview of all areas of responsibility, providing the framework and direction for clinicians working across services and programmes and involved in large scale change.
Key responsibilities will include:
o Leading the NHS England Digital Clinical Governance Framework, working across services, programmes, and projects.
o Responsible for the delivery and implementation of clinical governance, continuous quality improvement, clinical safety, and clinical benefits delivery.
o Provides highly-specialised and expert clinical informatics advice and expertise to both clinical and non-clinical staff.
o Representing and promoting understanding of the voice of citizens and patients in digital healthcare-related fora.
o Demonstrates experience, credibility and the ability to influence and establish the respect of clinical and non-clinical professionals at all levels
o Leading effective engagement with key stakeholders, professional communities and system users to ensure high-quality clinical input into NHS England activities.
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.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key aspects of this role will be to:
Manage, monitor and report on benefits realisation management, tracking the progress and ensuring that the intended benefits are achieved with outcomes maximised.
Ensure appropriate governance structures are in place to support.
Manage the impact on business-critical process and key talent.
Manage the appropriate programme controls ensuring monitoring and control activities and performance targets are on track.
Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement strategy is in place defining how the strategy will engage with all stakeholder groups and what information flows will be established and maintained.
Ensure there is a resource management plan which sets out the activities required to implement. (Resources meaning finances, people, assets and technology).
Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with stakeholders.
Lead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
Required to present to a range of internal and external stakeholders (including executive sponsors and non-executive authorities). Information relating to programme/service delivery often in challenging and potentially hostile situations.
Manage the Directorate, building a collaborative working environment and an innovative culture.
Motivate and inspire staff throughout the strategy to role model leadership and innovation.
Leading multiple teams to ensure the plan/deliverables are met in a timely manner, to the required standards and within budget.
The roles base is flexible however there is a requirement for travel to London for occasional meetings. Where relevant, there may be travel across England with the need for overnight stays, some of which maybe consecutive.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key aspects of this role will be to:
Manage, monitor and report on benefits realisation management, tracking the progress and ensuring that the intended benefits are achieved with outcomes maximised.
Ensure appropriate governance structures are in place to support.
Manage the impact on business-critical process and key talent.
Manage the appropriate programme controls ensuring monitoring and control activities and performance targets are on track.
Ensure appropriate stakeholder engagement strategy is in place defining how the strategy will engage with all stakeholder groups and what information flows will be established and maintained.
Ensure there is a resource management plan which sets out the activities required to implement. (Resources meaning finances, people, assets and technology).
Operate effectively in a flexible and demanding environment and proactively engage with stakeholders.
Lead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
Required to present to a range of internal and external stakeholders (including executive sponsors and non-executive authorities). Information relating to programme/service delivery often in challenging and potentially hostile situations.
Manage the Directorate, building a collaborative working environment and an innovative culture.
Motivate and inspire staff throughout the strategy to role model leadership and innovation.
Leading multiple teams to ensure the plan/deliverables are met in a timely manner, to the required standards and within budget.
The roles base is flexible however there is a requirement for travel to London for occasional meetings. Where relevant, there may be travel across England with the need for overnight stays, some of which maybe consecutive.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge in a key area of practice, holding current professional clinical registration with an appropriate professional body.
Desirable
- A trained and accredited clinical safety officer with current application in practice. If not, post holders will be expected to undertake training within 6 months of appointment
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Extensive post-registration NHS/Social care experience demonstrated over a number of years
- Understanding and experience of NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks and their requirements.
- Experience of clinical governance frameworks, with a strategic understanding of clinical risks and clinical safety, applied through risk assessment and clinical safety methodology.
- High-level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environments
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Able to implement, monitor and assure clinical governance frameworks.
- Lead and monitors the ongoing research and development of evidence-based clinical guidelines that reflect national guidance and ensure safe systems of working across NHS England.
- Ensures professional, ethical, legal and policy standards are applied across the organisation in the processing of patient and client information at all times.
- Leads and promotes meaningful discussions between professional technical experts to ensure that patient/client records can be appropriately created, stored, protected, aggregated and retrieved through the health and care system.
- Able to develop contribute to, and implement clinical informatics related policies and strategies
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge in a key area of practice, holding current professional clinical registration with an appropriate professional body.
Desirable
- A trained and accredited clinical safety officer with current application in practice. If not, post holders will be expected to undertake training within 6 months of appointment
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Extensive post-registration NHS/Social care experience demonstrated over a number of years
- Understanding and experience of NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks and their requirements.
- Experience of clinical governance frameworks, with a strategic understanding of clinical risks and clinical safety, applied through risk assessment and clinical safety methodology.
- High-level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environments
- Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
Skills Capabilities & Attributes
Essential
- Able to implement, monitor and assure clinical governance frameworks.
- Lead and monitors the ongoing research and development of evidence-based clinical guidelines that reflect national guidance and ensure safe systems of working across NHS England.
- Ensures professional, ethical, legal and policy standards are applied across the organisation in the processing of patient and client information at all times.
- Leads and promotes meaningful discussions between professional technical experts to ensure that patient/client records can be appropriately created, stored, protected, aggregated and retrieved through the health and care system.
- Able to develop contribute to, and implement clinical informatics related policies and strategies
- Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
- Consistently looks to improve what they do, looks for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation
- Self-awareness in terms of emotional intelligence, biases and personal triggers with cultural sensitivity and awareness
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
