Chief Clinical Information Officer

Job summary

We are currently looking for a Chief Clinical Information Officer to join our team on a secondment or fixed term opportunity for 2 days a week, 15 hours.

NHS North Central London Integrated Care Board (NCL ICB) is a statutory body responsible for planning and allocating health and care resources to improve the lives of people in our five boroughs: Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington. As an ICB, we're focused on:

1. improving outcomes in population health and healthcare
2. tackling inequalities in outcomes, experience, and access
3. enhancing productivity and value for money
4. helping the NHS support broader social and economic development.

It is an exciting time to be joining NCL ICB - we have commenced an organisational change programme to redesign the structure of the organisation and the way that we work to better meet the needs of our population, our people, our system, and our partners. As part of the organisational change programme, we want to re-launch and re-energise the organisation, embed new ways of working and building the capabilities we need to create a thriving organisational culture.

Main duties of the job

As part of the NCL-wide clinical leadership team, the post holder will promote the NCL digital strategy and lead at-scale clinical transformation where impact or action is needed across all or part of the region. They will:

1. Be responsible for setting the strategic direction of clinical health information transformation
2. Provide leadership in collaboration with other CCIOs, CIOs, stakeholders, patients, professionals, organisations and external bodies
3. Promote innovation and champion the development of an information culture that drives continuous improvement across the organisation
4. Provide expert clinical overview to the design and development of digitally enabled change programmes, and to ensure delivery
5. Oversee the strategic leadership of the procurement, development, deployment, reengineering, optimisation and integration of clinical information systems to ensure they support clinicians in the delivery of safe and effective patient care
6. Ensure the clinical organisation is maximising the use of technology and shared information to provide high quality, safe and effective care for service users
7. Ensure that delivery of technology and information changes appropriately balance needs, including improving operational performance and improving quality of care

About us

NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) was formed on 1 July 2022. We are an exciting new organisation putting the needs of communities at the heart of our commissioning arrangements. We are working with local people and partners across health, social care and the voluntary sector in innovative ways to improve health and wellbeing for all our communities. Our key priority in the next year will be to develop closer integrated and collaborative ways of working with all our partners to implement our Out of Hospital Strategy.

We can only do this with great staff who are encouraged and supported, which is why we invest in them, listen to them, make sure we are representative of our populations and that we foster their health and wellbeing.

Please note that all vacancies will be subject to a 6 months' probation period in line with the Probation Policy.

Job responsibilities

For further details on this role, please refer to the attached job description. Please ensure that you pay careful attention to the essentials and desirables of the person specification when completing your supporting statement.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

Essential

1. Accredited healthcare professional
2. Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience working at a senior level in specialist area
3. Relevant postgraduate qualifications
4. Significant evidence of continued professional development
5. Current registration with relevant professional body i.e. GMC, NMC, HCPC, GPhC or equivalent
6. Member or Fellow of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics (FCI) or associated professional body

Experience

Essential

1. Proven and significant leadership experience as a clinical practitioner
2. Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
3. Wide ranging knowledge and experience of using information and analytics, and harnessing technology to drive service improvement, access to services and patient empowerment across health and social care
4. Demonstrated experience in a Healthcare environment
5. Significant experience of managing a team

Knowledge

Essential

1. Knowledge about cybersecurity, counter measures and risk mitigation to develop secure systems and team/local policy and protocols to protect patient safety
2. Understands the qualities of a system/solution and trade-offs between when developing/deploying (e.g., maintainability, scalability, performance, recovery)
3. Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of the range of technology for transmitting information (e.g., messaging between systems) and clinical standards (e.g., standards for structuring clinical information) for information needed to support the creation of interoperable systems.

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.

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name
North Central London Integrated Care Board

Address
Islington Office
Laycock Professional Development Centre
London
N1 1TH

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