Job summary
NHS Sussex ICB ambition is to create an inclusive
working environment which reflects our commitment to celebrate and promote
diversity for all groups. We are particularly under-represented in staff from
Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) and disabled communities and actively
encourage and welcome applications from these communities. Furthermore,
we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces as we recognise the
benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their
work with us.
We encourage all applicants to share
their equality information with us confidentially during the application
process so that we can statistically monitor how fair and equitable our
recruitment process is and how well we are reaching applicants from diverse
communities and identify where we need to improve. This information is
removed before shortlisting.
This is an exciting new post which has been created
for a committed, high calibre clinician to provide leadership for digital
transformation and oversight of digital clinical safety across the ICB. The
role provides strategic clinical leadership on new ways of working using
digital and informatics technologies, transforming care delivery across all
clinical environments and professions. It requires the postholder to act as an
ambassador for the agenda across the system including acting as a spokesperson
for the organisation.
Main duties of the job
This role is a key leadership role within the new
operating model for the organisation. As a leader your main focus will be to
deliver on the responsibilities outlined in this job description and provider
the strategic professional clinical leadership of the digital team within the
ICB, including the supporting of appraisal and professional management of
Clinical Safety Officers. In this role
you are responsible for providing clinical direction and advice on the commissioning
of services which best meet the needs of the population, service transformation
and improvement and the delivery of any relevant national programmes of work.
This role is being offered at 0.6
-0.8 WTE only.
Interviews to be held week commencing 12/08/2024.
About us
NHS Sussex ICB are committed to enabling team members to work in an agile and flexible way. We adopt a flexible first approach to working patterns. We empower our people to work where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to support their wellbeing to sustain good work life balance and to optimise performance and delivery.
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Agile working is not just related to working from different locations or at different times. It is about effectively utilising technology to improve work practices and to work differently to increase our overall effectiveness to improve health outcomes for our population.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team at scw.peopleresource@nhs.net to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff you will be encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.
Working for us - Sussex Health and Care (ics.nhs.uk)
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is an exciting new post which has been created for a
committed, high calibre clinician to provide leadership for digital
transformation and oversight of digital clinical safety across the ICB. The
role provides strategic clinical leadership on new ways of working using
digital and informatics technologies, transforming care delivery across all
clinical environments and professions. It requires the postholder to act as an
ambassador for the agenda across the system including acting as a spokesperson
for the organisation.
This role is a key leadership role within the new operating model
for the organisation. As a leader your main focus will be to deliver on the
responsibilities outlined in this job description and provider the strategic
professional clinical leadership of the digital team within the ICB, including
the supporting of appraisal and professional management of Clinical Safety
Officers. In this role you are
responsible for providing clinical direction and advice on the commissioning of
services which best meet the needs of the population, service transformation
and improvement and the delivery of any relevant national programmes of work,
The CMO Directorates primary focus is to ensure the NHS Sussex
ICB delivers its statutory duties and embed ways of working aligned to the NHS
Long Term Plan ambition of collaboration, integration and improving the health
outcomes for our population. This includes ensuring that there is effective
commissioning of services with a robust and effective interface between primary
care and all providers of care including social care, ensuring safe and
effective care pathways in line with the known evidence base and best practice.
The CMO Directorate provides strong clinical leadership to the ICB
(and across the Sussex Health and Care Partnership collaborative networks) and
significantly contributes to the delivery of all statutory and corporate
responsibilities of the organisation.
Accountable to the CMO, as our
Chief Clinical Information Officer, you will be the most senior health and care
professional with specific responsibility for digital transformation of health
and care services and oversight of the system clinical safety functions. Providing both the voice of practitioners
within the digital agenda and leading the team of health and care professionals
with responsibility for clinical safety, you will be a digital enthusiast with
both the experience and professional competences at a senior level. The post holder will steer the vision to see
how health and care will be delivered in new and different ways in coming
years, and with a passion for the transformation of clinical and care services
that will be fundamental to realise the opportunities available. The
postholder will also provide strategic leadership, guidance and engagement
around the use of data, patient information and connected systems to optimise
patient care, clinical safety and health and care outcomes. You should be inquisitive about exploring the
research potential of data and encourage leveraging links with our academic
partners in support of this.
The
postholder will play an active role in the wider leadership team of NHS Sussex
and will be expected to positively contribute to discussions, debate, and
activity in priority areas of focus, including those which fall outside of
their area of functional responsibility, as and when required.
The postholder will be expected to demonstrate positive leadership
in all aspects of their role, take responsibility and make decisions (in line
with accountabilities and delegated responsibilities), and when escalating
issues, set out clear recommendations.
The postholder will provide specialist advice and
prepare strategic reports and briefings.
The post holder will act as the Deputy Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) for the ICB.
This
postholder will work in close alignment with all providers in the Sussex
system. The postholder will work in partnership with the ICB Director of
Digital, Data & Technology as well as providing clinical assurance and
oversight of the digital and technology function, to ensure an integrated
pathway approach to the implementation and delivery of services.
This
postholder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with our
external regulators, and in particular with our NHS England Regional and
National leads and act as a conduit to ensuring information flows remain
appropriate.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is an exciting new post which has been created for a
committed, high calibre clinician to provide leadership for digital
transformation and oversight of digital clinical safety across the ICB. The
role provides strategic clinical leadership on new ways of working using
digital and informatics technologies, transforming care delivery across all
clinical environments and professions. It requires the postholder to act as an
ambassador for the agenda across the system including acting as a spokesperson
for the organisation.
This role is a key leadership role within the new operating model
for the organisation. As a leader your main focus will be to deliver on the
responsibilities outlined in this job description and provider the strategic
professional clinical leadership of the digital team within the ICB, including
the supporting of appraisal and professional management of Clinical Safety
Officers. In this role you are
responsible for providing clinical direction and advice on the commissioning of
services which best meet the needs of the population, service transformation
and improvement and the delivery of any relevant national programmes of work,
The CMO Directorates primary focus is to ensure the NHS Sussex
ICB delivers its statutory duties and embed ways of working aligned to the NHS
Long Term Plan ambition of collaboration, integration and improving the health
outcomes for our population. This includes ensuring that there is effective
commissioning of services with a robust and effective interface between primary
care and all providers of care including social care, ensuring safe and
effective care pathways in line with the known evidence base and best practice.
The CMO Directorate provides strong clinical leadership to the ICB
(and across the Sussex Health and Care Partnership collaborative networks) and
significantly contributes to the delivery of all statutory and corporate
responsibilities of the organisation.
Accountable to the CMO, as our
Chief Clinical Information Officer, you will be the most senior health and care
professional with specific responsibility for digital transformation of health
and care services and oversight of the system clinical safety functions. Providing both the voice of practitioners
within the digital agenda and leading the team of health and care professionals
with responsibility for clinical safety, you will be a digital enthusiast with
both the experience and professional competences at a senior level. The post holder will steer the vision to see
how health and care will be delivered in new and different ways in coming
years, and with a passion for the transformation of clinical and care services
that will be fundamental to realise the opportunities available. The
postholder will also provide strategic leadership, guidance and engagement
around the use of data, patient information and connected systems to optimise
patient care, clinical safety and health and care outcomes. You should be inquisitive about exploring the
research potential of data and encourage leveraging links with our academic
partners in support of this.
The
postholder will play an active role in the wider leadership team of NHS Sussex
and will be expected to positively contribute to discussions, debate, and
activity in priority areas of focus, including those which fall outside of
their area of functional responsibility, as and when required.
The postholder will be expected to demonstrate positive leadership
in all aspects of their role, take responsibility and make decisions (in line
with accountabilities and delegated responsibilities), and when escalating
issues, set out clear recommendations.
The postholder will provide specialist advice and
prepare strategic reports and briefings.
The post holder will act as the Deputy Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) for the ICB.
This
postholder will work in close alignment with all providers in the Sussex
system. The postholder will work in partnership with the ICB Director of
Digital, Data & Technology as well as providing clinical assurance and
oversight of the digital and technology function, to ensure an integrated
pathway approach to the implementation and delivery of services.
This
postholder will establish and maintain excellent working relationships with our
external regulators, and in particular with our NHS England Regional and
National leads and act as a conduit to ensuring information flows remain
appropriate.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience and knowledge of primary care and community transformation, provision or both at a senior level
- Experience of overseeing and delivering digital transformation programmes demonstrating engagement in delivery
- Experience of leading clinical digital transformational change across services and organisations
- Knowledge about cybersecurity capability, counter measures
- Experience of working in partnership across agencies to deliver improved outcomes.
-
- Experience of working with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation.
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
- Experience of managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Inputs to strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams.
- Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Skills for direct line management and job management
- .
- Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively.
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions.
- High level critical thinking skills.
- Practical experience of facilitating organisational and cultural change within organisations, departments and team.
- Ability to develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
Qualifications
Essential
- Currently registered health or care professional with license to practice and no restrictions
- Post-registration education at Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at and/or specialist training and knowledge at a senior level with continuing professional development in the field of clinical leadership and/or clinical informatics/digital health leadership.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Registered/accredited with an appropriated body, such as the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, British Computer Society, Federation of Informatics Professionals or British Computer Society, ideally at fellows level.
- Clinical Safety Officer qualification and relevant experience.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, Regional Office of NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge and Experience:
- Experience and knowledge of primary care and community transformation, provision or both at a senior level
- Experience of overseeing and delivering digital transformation programmes demonstrating engagement in delivery
- Experience of leading clinical digital transformational change across services and organisations
- Knowledge about cybersecurity capability, counter measures
- Experience of working in partnership across agencies to deliver improved outcomes.
-
- Experience of working with Stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans and to develop plans for innovation.
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
- Experience of managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
- Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
- Plans and organises a broad range of complex activities, formulating and adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances.
- Inputs to strategic plans across NHS and within the specific teams.
- Good use of available information sources to enable efficient and effective planning.
- Ability to work under pressure and to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Skills for direct line management and job management
- .
- Skills for delivering results through managing through others and using a range of levers in the absence of direct line management responsibility.
- Ability to provide and receive, convey and present highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information to large groups, responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement.
- Ability to communicate with clinical, academic and all levels of staff effectively.
- High level analytical skills and the ability to draw qualitative and quantitative data from a wide range of sources and present in a clear concise manner.
- Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate conclusions.
- High level critical thinking skills.
- Practical experience of facilitating organisational and cultural change within organisations, departments and team.
- Ability to develop and maintain communication with people on complex matters, issues and ideas and/or in complex situations.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
Qualifications
Essential
- Currently registered health or care professional with license to practice and no restrictions
- Post-registration education at Masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at and/or specialist training and knowledge at a senior level with continuing professional development in the field of clinical leadership and/or clinical informatics/digital health leadership.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Registered/accredited with an appropriated body, such as the Faculty of Clinical Informatics, British Computer Society, Federation of Informatics Professionals or British Computer Society, ideally at fellows level.
- Clinical Safety Officer qualification and relevant experience.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, Regional Office of NHS England and individual provider and commissioning organisations.
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).
