Job summary
We're seeking a passionate, highly motivated and dynamic health professional to undertake the deputy role to the Group Chief Nursing Informatics Officer, supporting various high profile workstreams important to our nursing, midwifery and allied health professional workforce. Ensuring our practice and care is digitally enabled, safely enabling the best possible standards of care to our patients, their families and carers.
You will work closely with the Digital Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Team to develop and optimise digital ways of working and develop digital capacity across the organisation, delivering on the team's vision ensuring strong clinical leadership, person centric approaches and data driven decision making.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Chief Nursing Informatics Officer will be an experienced leader with demonstrable experience of digital transformation on medium to large scale. You will also have very good operational knowledge of services and an ability to motivate, inspire colleagues at all levels and professions. You must have a passion for quality improvement which is evidenced throughout your career and thrive in a busy fast paced working environment. Working with the clinical informatics, professional, operational and clinical teams you will support and lead the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of systems and services.
If you think this sounds like a role you'd like to do, or you want to hear more about it, then don't let the opportunity go by. Please make contact for an informal discussion.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Application and Interview
Essential
- Current active registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council/ HCPC
- Education to a minimum of Masters Degree level or equivalent
- Extensive and up to date knowledge of nursing and other clinical, administrative and/ or operational workflows and processes
- Operational management experience at a senior level
- Experience in developing service level quality improvement through the use of technology
- Experience of managing clinical elements of informatics/ digital projects
- Strong evidence of identifying, reporting and managing clinical risk and digital clinical safety processes
- Excellent communication skills with a range of audiences, evidencing creative ways of working, self awareness and confidence
- Able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Evidence of working collaboratively with multi-professional teams
- Effective leadership skills in relation to managing staff with ability to motivate and develop others
- Evidence of transformational change
Desirable
- Project management qualification
- Informatics/ digital leadership qualification
- Completed digital clinical safety training
Person Specification
Application and Interview
Essential
- Current active registration with Nursing and Midwifery Council/ HCPC
- Education to a minimum of Masters Degree level or equivalent
- Extensive and up to date knowledge of nursing and other clinical, administrative and/ or operational workflows and processes
- Operational management experience at a senior level
- Experience in developing service level quality improvement through the use of technology
- Experience of managing clinical elements of informatics/ digital projects
- Strong evidence of identifying, reporting and managing clinical risk and digital clinical safety processes
- Excellent communication skills with a range of audiences, evidencing creative ways of working, self awareness and confidence
- Able to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Evidence of working collaboratively with multi-professional teams
- Effective leadership skills in relation to managing staff with ability to motivate and develop others
- Evidence of transformational change
Desirable
- Project management qualification
- Informatics/ digital leadership qualification
- Completed digital clinical safety training
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).
