Job summary
The Clinical Informatics Manager works autonomously across a range of assignments across the organisation and maintains a strategic overview of all areas of responsibility.
The post holder supports the NHS Englands Digital Clinical Governance Framework, working across services, programme and projects. This includes responsibility for the delivery and implementation of clinical governance, clinical safety and clinical benefits, and delivery of assigned projects, programmes and services.
Main duties of the job
You will support and deputise for the Clinical Informatics Lead in the management and maintenance of NHS Englands Digital Clinical Governance Framework within a specified assignment and ensure that all staff for whom they are responsible comply with the Framework.
In this role, you may be required to lead or support other clinicians across the organisation, ensuring programmes and services have access to appropriate clinical support and are successfully represented in externally facing project boards, clinical reference panels or clinical advisory groups.
You will join a multi-professional team of experienced clinicians with a variety of clinical backgrounds, all of whom have chosen informatics as a specialist area of expertise. You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as the role of clinical informaticians becomes more important than ever before in supporting the safe and effective use of technology across health and social care services, for the benefit of patients and citizens.
About us
We are a great place to work.What we do matters.
From April 2023, NHS England, Health Education England and NHS Digital became one single organisation, putting workforce, data, digital and technology at the heart of our plans to transform the NHS. Our mission, to use data and technology to improve lives remains and we are currently recruiting critical, priority roles. Successful applicants should be aware that roles may be subject to change in the new organisation.
NHS England leads the NHS in England to deliver high quality care for all. We support NHS organisations to deliver better outcomes for our patients and communities, work to get the best possible value for taxpayers, and drive improvement across the NHS. This includes improving the health of the population and the quality of care, tackling inequalities, and delivering care more efficiently.
Our outstanding teams are passionate about technology and public service, making use of everyones skills to improve peoples lives.
We collaborate to deliver world class tech and intelligence, so come and join us. We are committed to sustainability, diversity and inclusion; our people are at the heart of what we do.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Informatics Manager works autonomously across a range of assignments across the organisation and maintains a strategic overview of all areas of responsibility.
The post holder supports the NHS Englands Digital Clinical Governance Framework, working across services, programme and projects. This includes responsibility for the delivery and implementation of clinical governance, clinical safety and clinical benefits, and delivery of assigned projects, programmes and services.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Clinical Informatics Manager works autonomously across a range of assignments across the organisation and maintains a strategic overview of all areas of responsibility.
The post holder supports the NHS Englands Digital Clinical Governance Framework, working across services, programme and projects. This includes responsibility for the delivery and implementation of clinical governance, clinical safety and clinical benefits, and delivery of assigned projects, programmes and services.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- demonstrable understanding of NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks and their requirements
- demonstrable knowledge of clinical informatics initiatives and a passion for digitisation of the health and care system
- ability to lead on the quality and governance of clinical content in IT software systems within their areas of responsibility
- demonstrable ability to take responsibility for the identification of clinical risks and issues about systems and products and take responsibility for their mitigation and resolution
- ability to demonstrate good knowledge of the health informatics agenda and can apply this to health and care provision, supported by an understanding of how healthcare programmes of work affect the public
- ability to influence and establish the respect of clinical and non-clinical professionals at all levels; lead effective engagement with key stakeholders, professional communities and system users to ensure high quality clinical input into activities
Qualifications
Essential
- registered and regulated health or care professional with a high level of specialist knowledge
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- demonstrable understanding of NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks and their requirements
- demonstrable knowledge of clinical informatics initiatives and a passion for digitisation of the health and care system
- ability to lead on the quality and governance of clinical content in IT software systems within their areas of responsibility
- demonstrable ability to take responsibility for the identification of clinical risks and issues about systems and products and take responsibility for their mitigation and resolution
- ability to demonstrate good knowledge of the health informatics agenda and can apply this to health and care provision, supported by an understanding of how healthcare programmes of work affect the public
- ability to influence and establish the respect of clinical and non-clinical professionals at all levels; lead effective engagement with key stakeholders, professional communities and system users to ensure high quality clinical input into activities
Qualifications
Essential
- registered and regulated health or care professional with a high level of specialist knowledge
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).
