Job Title: Chief Nursing Information Officer

Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week (will be required to work unsociable hours as and when required)

Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent

Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.

Closing Date: 23rd September 2024

Interview Date: 8th October 2024

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

Main duties of the job

This will be one of our biggest and most high-profile programmes of digital transformation, so we are looking for someone with energy, passion and the resilience to manage the complexities and risks involved in this critical programme of work.

You will join our Digital Leadership team and Corporate Nursing Team as the Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO). The post holder will provide crucial leadership that integrates clinical expertise with technological innovation to enhance patient care and operational efficiency in the clinical environment.

In this role you will be pivotal in the liaison between our digital experts by bringing all key stakeholders together to support the development of a digitally enabled nursing, midwifery and Allied Health Professional workforce, encompassing the varying needs of digital transformation, with a specific focus on enabling improved clinical workforce digital literacy.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced candidate, who is looking to progress their career as part of a supportive and highly driven team.

About us

Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever-evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

Xcellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits

On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in-house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will support the Trust to acquire, implement and sustain the required cost-effective digital systems to provide excellent clinical care to its service users, in conjunction with its partners throughout the wider health and social care community.

The post holder will provide clinical guidance and advice on the configuration, implementation, and adoption of the Trust's digital solutions to ensure the delivery of high-quality health and care services.

The post-holder will ensure the implementation of the digital strategy supports the clinical aims of the organisation and improves outcomes for our patients, staff and NHS.

They will contribute to the development of new models of care and advise on the role that digital technology can play in the Trust's clinical service review and transformation plan.

The post holder will provide clinical advice and guidance, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure the appropriate and successful use of digital solutions and systems within GEH, facilitating safe and effective care.

The post holder will promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate digital culture, as an enabler of transformation and quality improvement across the organisation.

The post holder will be one of the key GEH representatives in the internal, local, regional and national digital collaborations.

Responsible for strategic and operational leadership in the development, deployment, re-engineering, optimisation and integration of clinical information systems to support patient care.

Provide clinical leadership to advance nursing's utilisation of clinical information systems consistent with the goals and objectives of GEH nursing initiatives.

Translate clinical needs into the Digital Strategy and communicate the aims of the strategy to peers through a variety of methods.

Lead on the assessment of requirements and implementation of strategies to meet current needs, future direction for informatics within the Trust and across transitions through the continuum of care.

Lead the Transformational Change agenda with nursing and clinicians, driving key change initiatives and projects to build productive, sustainable, fit for purpose digital clinical environments.

Advise key stakeholders on implications of national and local digital policy/strategy development from a clinical perspective.

Act on their own initiative to deal with contentious and sensitive issues.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Postgraduate study/Qualification in Clinical Informatics
Educated to Master's level, working towards completion of Masters programme or equivalent experience
Teaching Qualification (7307, 998 or Mentoring and Assessing)
Current active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
Leadership/Management Qualification/training

Personal Qualities

Good organizational skills
Be a positive role model with the ability to demonstrate a credible, professional approach and manner at all times
Ability to be self-motivated, engaging and enthusiastic
Ability to influence, negotiate and persuade
Ability to work as part of a team
Ability to support staff, partners and stakeholders in delivering improved Organizational performance

Skills & Abilities

Ability to analyse complex and diverse local data in order to identify trends that demonstrate the changes that are required to be undertaken
To prepare written reports and present at operational, tactical and strategic levels
Evidence of leading, engaging and training others
Multi-disciplinary team working across health, social and voluntary sectors
Must have an understanding and appreciation of nursing and midwifery process, care delivery, service redesign and agenda
Demonstrates capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Must be able to prioritise and meet deadlines
Must be able to demonstrate use of IT skills, systems knowledge and programme design
Excellent communication skills and highly developed interpersonal and influencing skills
Must be able to demonstrate the ability to facilitate and present to groups
Awareness and evidence of development of Skillset of 'Core Competencies in Clinical Informatics' as defined by the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, UK and ability to become a member of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics
Highly developed programme and project management skills

Experience and Knowledge

A depth of experience as an acute clinical nurse, demonstrating expertise in the nursing process, documentation and fundamentals of care
Experience of ensuring that patients, staff and the public are engaged as an integral part of digital transformation and that safety and experience are considered at every stage
Ability to impart complex information and knowledge and/or present to others in a clear and concise manner
Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality and high standards to improve patient care and outcomes
Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
Evidence of supporting and facilitating service improvement processes in health and/or social care.
Evidence of programme/ and or project management experience
Knowledge of Information Governance, national and professional standards of practice or other regulations
Evidence of recent relevant continual professional development
Knowledge and experience of participating and promoting research in clinical practice
Evidence of clinical leadership in the field of Digital Technologies
Experience of implementation of part or whole of an EPR in an acute hospital in UK

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.

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