Chief Clinical Information Officer

Job summary

Chief Clinical Information Officer (Nursing/AHP) - Band 8c (0.8 WTE CCIO, 0.2 WTE clinical)

Are you a clinical leader passionate about digital transformation across mental health services, in particular across Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust? Do you want to use technology to drive innovation and enhance patient safety, outcomes, and staff experience?

Main duties of the job

We are looking to increase the breadth of clinical leadership in digital services by recruiting an additional Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) to work with our existing Chief Clinical Information Officer. These two roles, in partnership with the Chief Information Officer will drive clinical integration, adoption and optimisation of digital solutions that enable clinical practice and operational delivery, actively promoting digital leadership across all professional groups.

About us

We are the Mental Health & Learning Disability NHS Trust for County Durham and Darlington, Teesside, North Yorkshire, York and Selby.

From education and prevention, to crisis and specialist care, our talented and compassionate teams work in partnership with our patients, communities and partners to help the people of our region feel safe, understood, believed in and cared for.

We're committed to new thinking that improves the wellbeing of our region. We connect with our communities and partners to get mental health care right, in areas that really need it.

Job responsibilities

About You

You are a registered healthcare professional (NMC/HCPC/Social Work-England) with expertise in clinical informatics and digital transformation. You have led large-scale digitally enabled change and collaborated across multidisciplinary teams.

Essential Criteria:

1. Experience in digital transformation and leadership in mental health services.
2. Strong ability to engage, influence, and negotiate.
3. Expertise in electronic patient records.
4. Understanding of clinical governance, risk, and safety.
5. Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Why Join Us?

This is a rare opportunity to shape digital healthcare in a dynamic, supportive environment. Work at the forefront of clinical digital innovation, improving patient care and staff experience.

Join us on Our Journey To Change where your leadership shapes the future of healthcare.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

1. Educated to Masters level (level 7) in clinical informatics, leadership, or equivalent experiential learning.
2. Evidence of training in programme or project management principles and techniques and/or Change management techniques.
3. The Trust's QIS (Quality Improvement System) for Leaders Certificate or equivalent (or willing to achieve within agreed timescale).
4. Registration with relevant professional body (e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work-England).
5. Registered Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) (or willing to achieve within agreed timescale).

Desirable

1. PRINCE2 or equivalent project management certification.
2. Digital leadership or clinical safety qualifications.
3. Quality improvement qualification, or evidence of training in quality improvement principles and techniques.

Knowledge/Skills/Experience

Essential

1. Leadership in clinical informatics and digital transformation.
2. Experience in leading clinical adoption in large-scale digital projects in healthcare settings.
3. Strong understanding of EPR systems and their clinical integration.
4. Contributing to and monitoring complex programme or project plans.
5. Engaging successfully with a range of stakeholders, including within own organisation, outside own organisation and including both service users/customers and staff.
6. Using influencing and negotiation techniques.
7. Producing written reports and relating to complex information and data.
8. Presenting complex issues to senior management/clinicians in order to trigger a decision.
9. Managing project or programme boards.
10. Medical/Nursing/Therapies Leadership experience.
11. Extensive experience in relevant senior leadership role.
12. Ability to work strategically and autonomously providing vision and leadership.
13. Analytical and problem-solving skills.
14. Excellent IT (MS Office) Skills and able to manipulate complex data using IT.
15. Excellent knowledge of the use of Electronic Patient Records in Mental Health.
16. Proven, relevant and recent track record in leadership of clinical informatics.
17. Significant experience in delivering continuous improvement ensuring consistent high standards of clinical quality and safety.
18. Experience of developing and progressing business and workforce plans in line with future service requirements.
19. Experience/evidence of clinical leadership in the field of information technology.
20. Ability to gain credibility with and influence fellow clinicians, managers and specialty leads including influencing clinical changes.

Desirable

1. Experience in clinical safety case development and risk mitigation.
2. Experience in facilitating workshops and leading change initiatives.
3. Experience of requirements gathering and process mapping.
4. Experience of product development lifecycles, defining requirements, testing and implementing.

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.
Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see.