Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Informatics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 025-AC115-0724
- Employer
- Digital Health and Care Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Hybrid working
- Town
- Cardiff, Swansea or Mold
- Salary
- £71,473 - £82,355 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Allied Health Professions Information Officer (DHCW)
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Digital Health and Care Wales is an ambitious organisation created by Welsh Government to lead on the digital transformation of health and care. It builds on the digital architecture and national services put in place by the NHS Wales Informatics Service over the past decade.
The organisation will lead on large-scale developments that make a significant difference to the people of Wales as well as to health and care professionals, such as expansion of the digital patient record and the creation of a National Data Resource. It will improve the way data is collected, shared and used. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
Are you a senior leader in the Allied Health Professions with clinical informatics experience?
This unique opportunity is a Digital Health & Care Wales appointment to work with our partner organisations to support the digital agenda in Wales.
We are looking for a passionate and experienced senior leader, registered with the HCPC, to join our Clinical Informatics Team. As our Chief Allied Health Professions Information Officer (CAHPIO) for DHCW, you will be at the forefront of supporting our digital transformation journey in the professions. In collaboration with our partners, our CAHPIO will create the strategic direction and implementation of information technology, ensuring that clinical practices are supported by the most effective and innovative digital solutions.
The post holder will provide strategic leadership in collaboration with CCIOs, CNIOs and Clinical Informaticists, to assure an all-Wales approach, with our partners, to digital transformation and coordination of digital improvement plans and development of career pathways for clinical informatics across Wales.
Working in partnership with a range of stakeholders is essential to ensuring we understand, listen, and respond to needs.
Main duties of the job
We work in collaboration with health boards and trusts, public bodies, Welsh Government, social care and community services, academia, industry, and the public. This role requires a proactive and passionate individual, able to work autonomously in a complex environment, and highly focused on achieving results.
The main duty of this role is to work collaboratively with our partners to:
- Provide senior leadership to drive the overarching strategy for Digital at national level, ensuring effective governance and supporting alignment across the system with key stakeholders – all Wales.
- Working in collaboration with the Health Boards/Trusts regarding recruitment into digital roles, supporting the development of the career pathways, including continuous professional development of individuals, working in collaboration with HEIW and DHCW
- Provide strategic management and leadership for the co-ordination of standardisation of information and data across Wales.
- Providing senior strategic leadership to inform design and implementation of national digital projects and programmes to support the transformation of clinical care.
- Provide senior strategic leadership to inform multi-professional collaboration and clinical consensus to transform patient pathways, quality and safety and patient outcomes and improving patient and staff experiences through digital ways of working.
Working for our organisation
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is part of the NHS Wales family and has an important role in changing the way health and care services are delivered through technology and data. The organisation supports frontline staff with modern systems and access to important information about their patients, while empowering the people of Wales to manage their own health through digital NHS Wales services.
Working for DHCW offers lots of employee benefits, including flexible working, a competitive salary, 28 days of annual leave plus Bank Holidays and opportunities for career development. We are committed to recognising and celebrating our staff as the most valuable part of our organisation.
Join our game changing, life-saving team and start making a real difference to health and care services in Wales.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the role are:
- Planning and designing digital activities to inform IMTP planning and delivery in relation to digital transformation across Wales
- Improvement and monitoring of digital improvement and transformation activities
- To create strong collaborative partnerships across Wales to deliver collective ambitions
- To provide professional and strategic leadership in collaboration with our partners across Wales
- To use clinical expertise and strategic senior leadership experience to advise on devising, developing and implementing appropriate information sharing systems
- Contributing to the development of strategy, implementation of standards and the development of a career framework specialising in informatics
- Lead the creation and review implementation of information systems for collecting, evaluating and interpreting complex data to inform short, medium and long-term strategies
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional Clinical Qualification and current registrant with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Educated to master’s level or equivalent experience
- Post registration Leadership and Management qualification with professional knowledge across a number of areas – information systems, finance, performance, staffing
Desirable criteria
- Project management qualification (e.g., PRINCE2)
- Experience of implementation of quality systems that deliver end users benefits in managing clinical digital systems.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working at a senior level and acting as an interface between executive, clinical, managerial, operational, and digital colleagues
- Experience in working with national programmes
- Experience of delivering and leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements across clinical service
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stephanie Harris
- Job title
- Associate Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
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