Job summary
As part of the on-going evolution of our digital program, we are seeking to appoint an experienced clinical staff member to help facilitate adoption of our digital healthcare record at a Divisional level, within the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This full-time post is an opportunity to work with our Head of Nursing Informatics (CNIO), Senior Divisional Nurse Informatics Leads, Divisional Nursing Management and the Electronic Patient Record team, to provide greater visibility of the needs of the clinical services and to promote enhanced communication between these services and the digital program. They will provide expert knowledge and understanding of how our digital solution can meet these clinical needs and how it may evolve and develop to bridge gaps in function, supporting our goal to be paper free at the point of care.
They will be an experienced Nurse, Midwife or AHP with current experience of working with as part of a clinical digital team on the support of comprehensive electronic patient records. You will be an excellent communicator and will work in close collaboration with Midwifery, Nursing, Allied Healthcare, Clinical Support and digital technical teams.
Main duties of the job
Serve as the deputy to the Head of Nursing Informatics (HNI), articulating the Nursing vision for the Trust and integrating technology to enhance care delivery and patient safety.
Lead the digital adoption for Nursing, Midwifery, and AHP teams at a Divisional level across two or more divisions.
Ensure organisational standards of digital documentation are met at a Divisional level in line with local requirements, in collaboration with the Digital Nurses, Midwives and the HNI.
Lead, liaise, and collaborate on organisational clinical IT projects that may directly impact patient care, in conjunction with the HNI and DNIL team.
Work with technical, clinical, and transformation leaders and key stakeholders to address clinical and operational issues and design future clinical processes and workflows, using evidence and data for decision making and impact assessment.
Manage a team of digital nurse specialists (DNILS), overseeing annual leave, study leave, absence, and performance management in line with Trust policies and procedures.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Act as deputy to the Head of Nursing Informatics to articulate the Nursing vision for the Trust and the integration of technology to enhance care deliver and patient safety
Lead digital adoption for Nursing, Midwifery and AHP teams at a Divisional level across 2 or more divisions.
Responsible for driving change with the implementation of digital solutions across the divisions
Actively participate in all relevant digital and divisional meetings requiring senior nursing/midwifery expertise, providing expert professional advice and promoting improvements in the quality and safety of patient care.
Responsible for providing professional digital nursing expertise at divisional level.
Lead and ensure organisational standards of digital documentation at a Divisional level in line with local requirements, in partnership with their DNIL and the HNI.
Lead, liaise, and collaborate with, organisational clinical IT projects which may have a direct impact on patient care, in association with the HNI and DNIL team.
To use clinical and organisational experience to benefit and lead on enhancing organisational systems utilising a similar ethos and workflow.
To lead on Divisional measures to ensure successful digital adoption.
To seek opportunities which may benefit from, or contribute toward, IT projects developing across the OUH Trust, aligning these with the core OUH digital ethos.
To be mindful of projects which may benefit from EPR functionality and work with these teams to provide meaningful outcomes beneficial to all.
Collaborate with technical, clinical and transformation leadership and key stakeholders to problem solve clinical and operational issues and design future clinical processes and workflows, using evidence and data to support decision making and evaluation of impact.
To support and drive forward associated IT projects and service improvements to raise the profile of the Trust on a national and international level, by working with HNI and CCIO, to support publications and presentations.
Provide line management to a team of digital nurse specialists (DNILS), and ensure that annual leave, study leave, absence and performance management is dealt with in accordance with Trust policy and procedures.
Take a lead on recruitment and deployment of staff in each division to ensure that there is effective digital cover for each area.
For full Job description, please see attached document
Job description
Job responsibilities
Act as deputy to the Head of Nursing Informatics to articulate the Nursing vision for the Trust and the integration of technology to enhance care deliver and patient safety
Lead digital adoption for Nursing, Midwifery and AHP teams at a Divisional level across 2 or more divisions.
Responsible for driving change with the implementation of digital solutions across the divisions
Actively participate in all relevant digital and divisional meetings requiring senior nursing/midwifery expertise, providing expert professional advice and promoting improvements in the quality and safety of patient care.
Responsible for providing professional digital nursing expertise at divisional level.
Lead and ensure organisational standards of digital documentation at a Divisional level in line with local requirements, in partnership with their DNIL and the HNI.
Lead, liaise, and collaborate with, organisational clinical IT projects which may have a direct impact on patient care, in association with the HNI and DNIL team.
To use clinical and organisational experience to benefit and lead on enhancing organisational systems utilising a similar ethos and workflow.
To lead on Divisional measures to ensure successful digital adoption.
To seek opportunities which may benefit from, or contribute toward, IT projects developing across the OUH Trust, aligning these with the core OUH digital ethos.
To be mindful of projects which may benefit from EPR functionality and work with these teams to provide meaningful outcomes beneficial to all.
Collaborate with technical, clinical and transformation leadership and key stakeholders to problem solve clinical and operational issues and design future clinical processes and workflows, using evidence and data to support decision making and evaluation of impact.
To support and drive forward associated IT projects and service improvements to raise the profile of the Trust on a national and international level, by working with HNI and CCIO, to support publications and presentations.
Provide line management to a team of digital nurse specialists (DNILS), and ensure that annual leave, study leave, absence and performance management is dealt with in accordance with Trust policy and procedures.
Take a lead on recruitment and deployment of staff in each division to ensure that there is effective digital cover for each area.
For full Job description, please see attached document
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Nurse/Midwife/Allied Healthcare Professional with a relevant degree qualification
- Demonstrable leadership/management experience
- Demonstrable understanding of informatics within the organisation
- PGDip in Health Informatics or equivalent (complete or in progress)
Desirable
- Masters level degree in either informatics, business analysis or process re-engineering, or equivalent (or relevant experience)
- Master's degree in risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience)
- Attained national Clinical Safety Training for clinician
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Passionate about information as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support professional practice
- Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
- Successful influencer and negotiator
- Confidence and self-motivation
- Credible in a multi-professional environment
- Energetic and motivated for the role
Desirable
- Ability to write papers at board level with effective presentation skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in and/or strong understanding of clinical practice in the acute setting
- Active involvement in at least one informatics intervention to improve care quality
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting
- Risk management: training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and in a multi-professional environment
Desirable
- Understanding of the local, regional, and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to provide the trust wide and Divisional strategic overview of the development of information systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness
- Influencing skills: ability to engage clinicians to implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
- Ability to interface between clinical staff and the informatics team, to provide clarity, both on the implementation process, gaining a positive and sustainable approach to implementation that is both practical and timeline driven
- Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
- Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment
- Presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in both 1:1 settings and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc.)
- Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT and a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
- Able to process analyse and share complex information, to allow meaningful and appropriate use.
- Change management: demonstrable experience in managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment
- Patient safety: Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards
- Able and motivated to travel across all sites to address all aspects of the implementation programme and is flexible in being able to do so.
Desirable
- Information skills: able to critique and interpret aggregate information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies
- Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Nurse/Midwife/Allied Healthcare Professional with a relevant degree qualification
- Demonstrable leadership/management experience
- Demonstrable understanding of informatics within the organisation
- PGDip in Health Informatics or equivalent (complete or in progress)
Desirable
- Masters level degree in either informatics, business analysis or process re-engineering, or equivalent (or relevant experience)
- Master's degree in risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience)
- Attained national Clinical Safety Training for clinician
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Passionate about information as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support professional practice
- Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
- Successful influencer and negotiator
- Confidence and self-motivation
- Credible in a multi-professional environment
- Energetic and motivated for the role
Desirable
- Ability to write papers at board level with effective presentation skills
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in and/or strong understanding of clinical practice in the acute setting
- Active involvement in at least one informatics intervention to improve care quality
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting
- Risk management: training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and in a multi-professional environment
Desirable
- Understanding of the local, regional, and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Ability to provide the trust wide and Divisional strategic overview of the development of information systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness
- Influencing skills: ability to engage clinicians to implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
- Ability to interface between clinical staff and the informatics team, to provide clarity, both on the implementation process, gaining a positive and sustainable approach to implementation that is both practical and timeline driven
- Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
- Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment
- Presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in both 1:1 settings and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc.)
- Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT and a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
- Able to process analyse and share complex information, to allow meaningful and appropriate use.
- Change management: demonstrable experience in managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment
- Patient safety: Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards
- Able and motivated to travel across all sites to address all aspects of the implementation programme and is flexible in being able to do so.
Desirable
- Information skills: able to critique and interpret aggregate information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies
- Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change
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).
