Chief Clinical Information Officer

Are you a senior doctor, nurse, AHP, pharmacist, psychologist, optometrist, social worker, dentist, or any other registered health or care professional who wants to make a real difference to patients and their outcomes?

Do you have a head full of brilliant ideas that you want to put into action, and are ready to take people with you on transformational journeys?

Do you see the whole picture for a patient and the role that integrated care can play from cradle to grave, delivered through primary care, community services, and hospitals, alongside all partners in one of the best Integrated Care Systems in England?

Perhaps you sometimes feel like you don't quite fit in where you work and would like to try a different way of doing things. Could you be our systems first Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO)?

At a practical level, our CCIO will be the bridge between strategy, clinical services, clinicians, IT professionals, and digital and data services.

Sometimes the best candidates need us to make reasonable adjustments to get the best out of them. If you need to work flexibly, if your interview style is unique to you, or if you feel as if you've struggled to get your skills noticed, please read on; we want to work with the most talented individuals and recognize that this means we must take YOU into account.

So, if this is you, we would like to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

1. Create and maintain communities of practice amongst relevant health and care professionals.
2. Leadership within an integrated team in the ICB to deliver excellent performance outcomes.
3. Leadership within an integrated team in the ICB on development of relevant strategy, clinical and digital pathways, and policy.
4. Leadership of relevant research and innovation.
5. Leadership of digital opportunities within medicines management workstreams.
6. Contribute to the leadership and delivery of the ICB objectives.
7. Personal development to increase effectiveness and set or maintain career trajectory.

About us

The NHS Suffolk and North-East Essex Integrated Care Board (ICB) plans and buys healthcare services for our population. This function is commonly referred to as commissioning. To do this, we work within a budget of around £1.5 billion, which is set by NHS England, and work closely with local government and the NHS providers in our area.

Our performance is judged by how well our local health and care system as a whole is working, including the health outcomes of our communities.

The ICB has delegated some authority to the three health and wellbeing alliances that operate in Suffolk and North-East Essex to act on its behalf. This is to ensure that the needs of smaller, local areas are addressed. The ICB remains accountable for all of its functions, including those it has delegated.

Local residents have a big role to play in the operation of the ICB. We rely on the experiences and perspectives of our communities to help shape our decision-making.

Job responsibilities

The CCIO will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team across the ICB and wider ICS to support the medical director in delivering a future digital model of care across the system. The consequent priorities to achieve this outcome are outlined in the SNEE Joint Forward Plan (2024-2029). The post will focus upon the following areas of work:

1. Clinical Digital Voice in transformation.
2. Develop and implement new clinical digital strategic plans in collaboration with colleagues across the ICS.
3. Building relationships between leaders across the system.
4. Bring clinical expertise in digital transformation and enablement, Information Governance, Clinical Safety, and user experience.
5. Be a member of the Strategic Digital Investment and Assurance Committee.
6. Represent the ICB clinically on partner strategic digital programmes, within and out with the ICS.
7. Work closely with NHSE and Health Innovation East to further joint strategic aims.
8. Scan the horizon for new clinical digital opportunities.
9. Support the implementation of Population Health Management in practice across the ICS.
10. Management of digital clinical safety for the ICB.

The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities, and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager.

Person Specification

Skills

• Dynamic personality and the ability to build trusted stakeholder relationships and wide support networks in a political context.
• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment and experience in handling media.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
• Extensive experience of delivering presentations to large groups of stakeholders in often pressured and politically sensitive environments.
• Ability to analyse highly complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
• Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
• Ability to analyse numerical and written data, assess options and draw appropriate initiatives.
• Leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills.
• Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
• Experience of managing and prioritising a large budget.
• Ability to provide informative reporting on finances and impact to Board management.
• Experience in leading a major change initiative with entrepreneurialism in a challenging organisational environment.
• Experience of creating a new team and motivating and inspiring staff to work together to achieve a common objective.
• Ability to work effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects.

Knowledge, Training and Experience

• Educated to masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
• Proven and significant leadership experience.
• Significant evidence of continued professional development.
• Demonstrated expertise in a Healthcare environment.
• Significant management experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry.
• Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.
• Proven record in transferring processes and roles between locations.
• Commissioning expertise in healthcare environment.
• Significant experience and understanding of proven implementation of project management methodologies.
• Member of a relevant professional body.
• Education sector knowledge.
• Experience and/or understanding of the wider Health Economy.
• Commercial expertise.
• Awareness of relevant public and private sector business management best practice.
• Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.

Equality and Diversity

• Will consider the most effective way to promote equality of opportunity and good working relationships in employment and service delivery and has the ability to take actions which support and promote this agenda.

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.