Chief Clinical Information Officer

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 09 February 2025

Job summary

By nearly every measure, UHB is one of the largest Trusts in the NHS, with an annual turnover of 2.4 billion, employing over 24,000 staff who not only treat our local patients, but those who travel nationally for some of the most specialist services available in the country.

Our mission is to improve the health and wellbeing of the population we serve, shape an equitable and sustainable future, and create an excellent experience for our patients and staff. Many of the software products we develop are now, rightly, regulated as medical devices. We are therefore looking to strengthen our senior digital leadership team following the promotion of our current Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) to Deputy Chief Medical Officer.

The CCIO must advocate for the huge and ever-growing opportunities associated with digitisation of clinical pathways, and at the same time ensure a deep understanding of associated risk and oversee the judgements necessary in evaluating the two side-by-side.

Reporting to our Group Chief Strategy and Digital Officer and professionally accountable to our Group Chief Medical Officer, as our new CCIO, you will foster our vision for digital transformation of health and care into our clinical communities and working with our internal delivery functions, help design and deliver products and services that meet the needs and expectations of our clinical and patient community.

Main duties of the job

The role will encourage clinical leadership of the digital and transformation agenda across the organisation, acting as an ambassador and influencing colleagues from all front-line professions to be involved in and provide leadership to the digital portfolio.

As a data and digital enthusiast, you will lead with a clear vision as to how health care will be received. You will champion new ways of delivery and be passionate about using technology advancement in clinical settings and the opportunities it creates. You will be inquisitive and confident to explore developments outside of the NHS.

Working as part of a wider team, the CCIO role includes leadership for and oversight of key healthcare systems such as PICS (our bespoke EPR) with collaborative support provided for autonomous IT systems, along with specialty specific systems such as Ophthalmology & Endoscopy applications.

Applications are welcomed from experienced CCIOs, but with your significant experience as a clinical leader, you will inspire and optimise the adoption of technology ensuring that this appropriately balancing improving operational performance and quality of care.

Inspired? Our Talent & Engagement lead is on standby to discuss this opportunity further.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Date posted

14 January 2025

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£105,504 to £139,882 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

304-KA-1091432

Job locations

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY SKILLS

* Highly developed problem solving, administrative, budgetary, analytical and statistical

skills.

* Outstanding interpersonal and communications skills.

* Proven track record in leading and motivating others; gaining confidence of colleagues

through effective style and approach.

* Able to work across organisational boundaries and collaborate effectively.

* Confident dealing with patients, families, media and other external parties.

* Highly developed negotiating skills.

* Able to lead and/or contribute to policy development.

* Strong prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands.

* Able to think and act strategically and to articular a clear sense of direction and vision to a

wide audience.

* Able to build and maintain effective relationships with a range of internal and external

stakeholders.

* Able to support the development and maintenance of an organisational culture that

promotes clinical engagement in decision making and leading continuous

change/improvement in services.

Job description

Job responsibilities

KEY SKILLS

* Highly developed problem solving, administrative, budgetary, analytical and statistical

skills.

* Outstanding interpersonal and communications skills.

* Proven track record in leading and motivating others; gaining confidence of colleagues

through effective style and approach.

* Able to work across organisational boundaries and collaborate effectively.

* Confident dealing with patients, families, media and other external parties.

* Highly developed negotiating skills.

* Able to lead and/or contribute to policy development.

* Strong prioritisation skills with the ability to manage competing demands.

* Able to think and act strategically and to articular a clear sense of direction and vision to a

wide audience.

* Able to build and maintain effective relationships with a range of internal and external

stakeholders.

* Able to support the development and maintenance of an organisational culture that

promotes clinical engagement in decision making and leading continuous

change/improvement in services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Full registration with GMC with a license to practice.
* Be on the GMC Specialist Register
* Qualified medical professional with a license to practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Full registration with GMC with a license to practice.
* Be on the GMC Specialist Register
* Qualified medical professional with a license to practice.

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.

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).