Job summary
NHS North East London (NHS NEL) is recruiting a Chief Clinical Information Officer at what is a critical time for the embedding of digital tools in the everyday interaction of patients with the NHS and partner organisations.
The post holder will be providing clinical leadership, support and guidance to the NHS NEL's Chief Medical Officer and Chief Information Officer. It is expected that the post holder is already an experienced and embedded senior clinical leader with an existing profile in clinical / digital transformation at system level.
Digital enablement is a critical component of NHS NEL's strategy, in line with national policy and guidance. Being clinically led is, and always has been, key to the success enjoyed to date by the Digital programmes operating in north east London.
This role is primarily focused on supporting the Chief Medical Officer to further develop and implement the agreed Digital strategy across NHS NEL, ensuring robust clinical consultation and engagement. This role will support and work closely with senior colleagues within NHS NEL, assuming SRO / Chairing responsibilities for some key programmes and committees.
If you have the skills and experience to make a valuable contribution to the development of digital technology in north east London, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
NHS North East London (NHS NEL) is the name of our Integrated Care Board - the organisation that replaced NEL Clinical Commissioning Group on 1 July 2022. NEL ICB is responsible for commissioning most health services across NEL and is accountable for NHS spend and performance, ensuring all parts of the local health system work effectively together. The ICS serves a rapidly growing population of two million people that live in North East London.
Our agreed ambition as a partnership is that "We will work with and for all the people of north east London to create meaningful improvements in health, wellbeing and equity."
Central to delivery of this ambition is making sure everything we do is informed by those with experience of developing and providing services and the lived experiences of patients and our populations. Expert input and leadership from front line clinical and care professionals is a fundamental ingredient to identifying effective and responsive service improvements and transformation.
NEL ICB has seven place-based partnerships (City and Hackney, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest), aligned to our boroughs, with The Corporation of the City of London and London Borough of Hackney working together.
About us
These place-based partnerships bring together the NHS, local government and providers of health and social care services, including the VCSE sector, people and communities, to provide a strong understanding of what works well with and what is needed by local communities. Working together in this way brings the ability to integrate local services across health and care and the levers to tackle some of the wider determinants of health, such as housing and employment.
Plans for these partnerships are rapidly developing and expected to respond differently, reflecting specific local factors and priorities. They will identify how to meet the needs of the local population better and reduce health inequalities.
Many programmes of work will also continue to span the ICS and there is a key role to ensure these wider workstreams are supported by NEL level clinical and care professional leadership, working hand in hand with provider collaboratives and places. Some specialist services and providers operate at an ICS or London wide scale and connecting these together is as critical to our future success and drilling down at place. These NEL level leadership roles are also critical to ensuring consistency and equity are maintained across our system and providing a link with NHSE or wider London Networks.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We have developed a series of design principles that will ensure the CCP system leadership is fully integrated with executive and managerial leadership in our ICS operating model, system governance, structures and networks as a core required function of the NEL Integrated Care Board.
It is designed to support delivery of a clear, purposeful and motivational ICS strategy to improve health outcomes for the population of north east London and is focused on key functions and programmes of work that have a clear benefit of being addressed at system level and what leaders can collectively contribute to the broader system. It is essential that our CCP leadership group is inclusive and reflective of the diversity, breadth and depth of our system across care settings, place, organisations, professional groups and networks and the population we serve. It is further designed to support the development of skills, behaviours, tools and relationships required to maintain a community of innovative and impactful system leaders working effectively across spatial, organisational and professional boundaries. Through all of this we will be able to support, develop and sustain a culture of learning underpinned by psychological safety in all aspects of this work.
We will be providing development support for all of those with the skills and appetite to step into leadership roles at borough and ICS level and are keen to ensure a more diverse range of clinical and care professionals able to participate in system leadership roles better reflecting our ambitions around integration and the multidisciplinary nature of care, as well as the diversity of the communities we serve.
The development support on offer will be through the NEL System Leadership Collaborative, which is being designed specifically to increase our pipeline for these key roles in NEL. Principally we are looking for health and care professionals with the energy, ability and enthusiasm to drive improvements in care across organisational boundaries, and improve outcomes and tackle inequalities in our population across NEL through closer collaboration.
We encourage applications for all multidisciplinary professional groups and in particular would welcome application from interested candidates from a Black, Asian and Minority ethnic background.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies when we have received sufficient applications to shortlist.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We have developed a series of design principles that will ensure the CCP system leadership is fully integrated with executive and managerial leadership in our ICS operating model, system governance, structures and networks as a core required function of the NEL Integrated Care Board.
It is designed to support delivery of a clear, purposeful and motivational ICS strategy to improve health outcomes for the population of north east London and is focused on key functions and programmes of work that have a clear benefit of being addressed at system level and what leaders can collectively contribute to the broader system. It is essential that our CCP leadership group is inclusive and reflective of the diversity, breadth and depth of our system across care settings, place, organisations, professional groups and networks and the population we serve. It is further designed to support the development of skills, behaviours, tools and relationships required to maintain a community of innovative and impactful system leaders working effectively across spatial, organisational and professional boundaries. Through all of this we will be able to support, develop and sustain a culture of learning underpinned by psychological safety in all aspects of this work.
We will be providing development support for all of those with the skills and appetite to step into leadership roles at borough and ICS level and are keen to ensure a more diverse range of clinical and care professionals able to participate in system leadership roles better reflecting our ambitions around integration and the multidisciplinary nature of care, as well as the diversity of the communities we serve.
The development support on offer will be through the NEL System Leadership Collaborative, which is being designed specifically to increase our pipeline for these key roles in NEL. Principally we are looking for health and care professionals with the energy, ability and enthusiasm to drive improvements in care across organisational boundaries, and improve outcomes and tackle inequalities in our population across NEL through closer collaboration.
We encourage applications for all multidisciplinary professional groups and in particular would welcome application from interested candidates from a Black, Asian and Minority ethnic background.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies when we have received sufficient applications to shortlist.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in clinical practice
- Active Involvement in at least one major informatics intervention (such as deployment of an Electronic Patient Record system) to improve care quality
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in multiple clinical settings
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders within and outside the organisation and in a multi-professional environment
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Able to critique and interpret aggregate information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills
- Able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
- Able to successfully manage difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
- Able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment, including presenting to large gatherings of senior colleagues
- Able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change
- Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in clinical practice
- Active Involvement in at least one major informatics intervention (such as deployment of an Electronic Patient Record system) to improve care quality
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in multiple clinical settings
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders within and outside the organisation and in a multi-professional environment
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Able to critique and interpret aggregate information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills
- Able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
- Able to successfully manage difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
- Able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment, including presenting to large gatherings of senior colleagues
- Able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change
- Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards
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).
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).