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Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
Contract
Permanent: 10 PAs (Six CCIO sessions plus 4 clinical sessions)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (10 PAs (Six CCIO sessions plus 4 clinical sessions))
Job ref
156-24-0010-B
Employer
Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Cornwall Hospital
Town
Truro
Salary
£99,532 - £131,964 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/07/2024 23:59

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Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust logo

Chief Clinical Information Officer

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Job overview

The Trust is increasingly dependent on digital systems to support front line services and improve patient safety, quality of care and staff wellbeing. With the implementation and roll out of eCare, our new electronic patient record underway, now more than ever before is an exciting time to be involved in designing the future of RCHTs digital infrastructure . We need to ensure that we make the right choices in terms of what we do next to complete our digital journey. Vital to this is the leadership role of the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO).

Main duties of the job

The Trust is seeking to appoint a CCIO to its clinical workforce on a 6 sessions a week basis on a substantive basis with 4 sessions a week in their own speciality. The CCIO will help shape regular updates to our digital strategy at both a Trust and care system level. The CCIO will also play a key part in ensuring that there is strong clinical engagement in the selection, deployment and ongoing operations of the clinical digital systems in the future. Essential to this will be a commitment to improving our workforce digital skills and process maturity so that clinical colleagues have the confidence to fully adopt and continually improve our digital systems and working practices.  The CCIO will also provide the strategic clinical leadership required to ensure that the Trust delivers planned benefits, financial sustainability and drives clinical and patient benefits, to improve quality of care. 

The post holder will work collaboratively with key internal & external stakeholders to ensure clinical involvement and ownership in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of strategic informatics solutions. The post holder will promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate information culture across the Trust. 

You will be supported by and will help direct the work of eHealth Team comprising of Cornwall IT Services, eCare Programme and team, the eTransformation Manager and team as well as the wider health informatics resources within the Trust. 

Working for our organisation

Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust is the biggest provider of healthcare services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. Our three main sites are Royal Cornwall Hospital Truro, St Michael’s Hospital Hayle and West Cornwall Hospital Penzance, our staff and services are available across the region.  

The Trust employs 5,000+ staff, has a budget of £380 million and 750 beds. We work with health and social care organisations -including NHS Kernow and NHS England- to ensure local healthcare needs are met. We provide acute medical, surgical and specialist services to around 500,000- which can increase significantly during busy holiday periods. 

The Trust has teaching hospitals status as part of the University of Exeter Medical School. Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we continually develop clinical services and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care offered locally. 

We can offer you a rewarding career in a supportive working environment. We have extensive educational links to help you realise your full potential and develop skills to provide outstanding healthcare to the local community. 

Enjoy an outstanding quality of life in a place that offers surfing beaches and fishing harbours to beautiful countryside and historic towns. With clean air, plenty of opportunities for outdoor activities and excellent schools, colleges and universities (including adult education) it is the ideal place for families and for you to develop your own career. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side.

To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following:

  • Identity Checks 
  • Professional registration and qualification checks 
  • Employment history and reference checks 
  • Work health assessments 
  • Criminal record check standards 
  • Right to work checks

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https://www.nhsemployers.org/topics-networks/employment-standards-and-regulation

Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about any flexible working arrangements you would prefer or require. While we may not be able to fully accommodate all requests, such requests will not be referenced during the interview scoring process, and we will fully consider and try to accommodate them for successful applicants.

We reserve the right to close this advert early, or when the allocated number of applications has been reached. Please submit your application at the earliest opportunity.  

 

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential criteria
  • Healthcare professional degree qualification (e.g. medical practitioner, )
  • GMC Registration with a licence to practice
Desirable criteria
  • Masters level degree in either informatics, business analysis or process re-engineering, or equivalent (or relevant experience)
  • Management and/or leadership qualification at QCF level 5 (Foundation/Bachelor Degree) or equivalent (or relevant experience)
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner (or equivalent project management methodology)
  • Master's degree in risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience)

EXPERIENCE

Essential criteria
  • Experience in clinical practice as a senior doctor.
  • A significant leadership role in the implementation of an Electronic Patient Record system (preferably Oracle Health Millenium) within the last three years.
  • Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting with demonstrated success in overcoming resistance to a change in clinical working practice.
  • Business process mapping, tools, techniques including evaluation of process maturity and process efficiency
  • Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders within and outside the organisation and in a multi-professional environment
Desirable criteria
  • Patient journey mapping, user centred design and Agile programme delivery

PRACTICAL AND INTELLECTUAL SKILLS (INCLUDING ANY SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE)

Essential criteria
  • Ability to provide a strategic overview of the development of informatics systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness.
  • High level influencing skills: able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
  • Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
  • Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment
  • High level presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in different settings in both 1:1 settings and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc)
  • Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT and a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
  • Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies
  • Change management: managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment
  • Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change and drive through these benefits through their active management
Desirable criteria
  • Patient safety: Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards Attained national Clinical Safety Training for clinicians (must be willing to undertake this training within 6 months).
  • Attained national Clinical Safety Training for clinicians (must be willing to undertake this training within 6 months).

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Allister Grant
Job title
Chief Medical Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

Kelvyn Hipperson, Chief Information Officer, [email protected]

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