Chief Nursing Information Officer CNIO & Digital Transformation Lead

Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting secondment opportunity for a senior nurse leader who has a passion for the digital agenda and the transformation of services.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our fantastic team and help us make a positive difference for our staff and patients. You will have extensive experience of leading improvements and you will be someone with excellent interpersonal skills and a 'can do' approach!

You will take a principal role in advancing the Trust's digital agenda, providing direction and nursing leadership for digital transformation across the organisation.

In this role, you will encourage and support clinical colleagues to embrace digital change, ensuring transformation is innovative and responsive with a clear focus on the quality of staff and patient experience.

You will be someone with demonstrable digital knowledge, project and operational delivery, excellent organisational, communication and problem-solving skills, and a commitment to continuous improvement, utilising the Trust's quality improvement methodology, Improving Together.

Main duties of the job

The CNIO is responsible for strategic and operational nursing leadership in the development, deployment, re-engineering, optimisation, and integration of clinical information systems to support nursing and patient care.

The post holder will provide strategic clinical advice and guidance, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to lead digital transformation across the Trust.

A key aspect of this role will be to encourage and support clinical colleagues to embrace transformational change associated with the digital agenda and to act as a liaison between the Trust's clinical collective and the IM&T digitisation programme.

The CNIO will pioneer new ways of working and promote the "art of the possible". They will lead on the promotion, innovation, and transformation of clinical services and pathways using information and technologies across nursing, midwifery, and allied health professionals' (AHPs) workforces to support and improve:

• Patient outcomes and efficiency
• Clinical safety
• Integrated care across partners and commissioners
• Digital empowerment of patients and citizens
• Benefits realisation of digital initiatives

The post holder will provide expert and senior clinical advice into the Digital Transformation Programme, taking the lead on projects as appropriate.

The post holder will have management and budgetary responsibilities for teams within the wider IM&T portfolio.

About us

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing, and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual, and financial wellbeing.

Job responsibilities

Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of ongoing continuous professional development
• Leadership programme or evidence of leadership development
• Knowledge of the NHS national and local Agenda
• PG Diploma or Degree in informatics/IT

Knowledge

• Demonstrable experience of a senior management position within Nursing, Midwifery roles
• Expert proven knowledge of patient care pathways & patient flow
• Extensive experience of working at a senior level and acting as an interface between clinical, managerial operational and digital colleagues
• Experience of delivering of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements across the clinical service
• Quality Improvement Skills and evidence of leading a Trust Wide QI project
• Experience of implementation of software systems
• Knowledge of procurement law relating to health and IT system

Specific Skills

• Demonstrates evidence of well-developed clinical practice. Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care
• Demonstrate ability to interpret and analyse data
• Highly effective communication skills - able to communicate verbally and written to staff, patients and relatives

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.