Job summary
Employer heading
Deputy Chief Nursing & Allied Health Information Officer
NHS AfC: Band 8b
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
The Deputy Chief Nursing & Allied Health Information Officer (DCNIO) is a key leader, supporter and facilitator of the Trust’s clinical digital function.
As a highly experienced and credible senior nurse, midwife, or allied health professional, you will provide expert clinical challenge, guidance, and direction to support safety, quality, and developments in digitally enabled practice.
You will play a pivotal role with the Chief Nursing & Allied Health Information Officer (CNIO) in leading the Trust’s nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals through significant change.
Main duties of the job
The DCNIO will work in partnership with the CNIO to share the strategic vision for how the digital agenda will support and enhance nursing, midwifery, and allied health practice.
As a transformational leader with exemplary clinical credibility, the DCNIO will provide expert clinical advice and guidance to support delivery of digital programmes, ensuring quality and safety are prioritised.
Through stewardship of clinical digital governance, the DCNIO will be a critical contributor to assurance around quality and safety.
The DCNIO will be a key point of liaison for nursing, midwifery, and allied health colleagues across the Trust, and will engage stakeholders effectively to ensure patient and clinical involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of clinical digital systems.
Working closely with digital medical, pharmacy, operational, and technical leaders, the DCNIO will be a visible, inspiring, and compassionate leader, and will proactively support the Trust’s digital nurses, midwives, and allied health professions in their practice and development.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it’s staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Qualified nurse, midwife, or allied health professional with current NMC or HCPC registration
- Recognised teaching, mentoring, management, or leadership qualification
- Master’s degree or equivalent experience at a senior level (AfC band 8a or above)
- NHS Clinical Safety Officer qualification
Desirable criteria
- Training in digital healthcare / clinical informatics
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Strong IT skills, including use of clinical information systems and Microsoft Office tools, and the ability to adopt new technologies quickly
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of collaborative, multi-disciplinary working in a relevant clinical environment
- Significant experience of leading a team or service to effectively deliver strategic aims
- Significant experience of leading complex change, including influencing colleagues at different levels of seniority
- Extensive experience of successfully implementing digital tools in clinical environments
Desirable criteria
- Experience with programme management techniques and methodologies
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Skilled at building credibility beyond own clinical specialty/background
- Able to tolerate uncertainty and pressure with positivity (demonstrating a growth mindset) and support the team’s capacity to do the same
- Able to sustain a clear focus on values, outcomes, and delivery, particularly during challenging conversations
- Genuine commitment to the opportunity offered by data and digital tools in enabling personalised, evidence-based care (directly, and indirectly through education and research)
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Harriet Couper
- Job title
- Chief Nursing & Allied Health Information Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07356 120 320
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