Clinical Steward for Digital Health & Transformation (CCIO)

Job summary

Stewardship is a collaborative and strategic approach to healthcare leadership that emphasises shared responsibility for optimising resources, improving population health outcomes, and tackling health inequalities. This model fosters integration and innovation by aligning care delivery with system-wide goals, ensuring a patient-centred and value-based approach.

As a steward, the individual is expected to embody these principles by:

• Leading collaboratively: Driving integration across sectors and fostering collective accountability by convening multi-agency stakeholders to address shared challenges. Stewards should actively lead discussions, mediate between parties, and create unified action plans.
• Championing data-driven insights: Using analytics and evidence to inform clinical and operational decisions that enhance patient care and reduce disparities. Examples include developing targeted interventions using population health data or designing risk stratification tools.
• Engaging with stakeholders: Building and maintaining robust relationships across health and care systems to ensure alignment with shared objectives and priorities. This involves regular communication with patient groups, clinical leads, and external agencies.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Steward for Digital Health & Transformation (CCIO) will provide expert and pragmatic advice, leadership, and management necessary to support the safe and efficient design, implementation, and use of clinical digital systems to deliver improvements to the quality of care and patient outcomes. This includes providing expert clinical information advice and guidance; working collaboratively with others to ensure patient and clinical involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of systems and services; and championing the use of digital systems as an enabler of change and quality improvement.

This role will provide strategic direction and clinical leadership on the design, implementation, and use of digital solutions to ensure quality improvements and the delivery of high-quality primary care services and opportunities across the wider care system for improved patient experience and efficiency.

The postholder will promote innovation and champion the development of a digital culture as an enabler of change and quality improvement and drive continuous clinical process improvement focused on patient outcomes and efficiency both within the internal ICB and within the wider ICS with system partners.

About us

Health and care services in Norfolk and Waveney are working closely together to further improve services and provide more joined-up care for local people. In Norfolk and Waveney, we have already achieved a lot by working in partnership to improve health and care outcomes. These changes have been made possible by different organisations - NHS hospitals, GPs, mental health and community health services, local councils, care homes and social workers, voluntary and community organisations and others - joining forces to agree and plan for local people's needs.

Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care System (ICS) includes a statutory Integrated Care Partnership (ICP), and an Integrated Care Board (ICB) called NHS Norfolk and Waveney. This partnership and organisation dedicated to making sure that organisations work together for the benefit of our residents, staff and communities is an important step change, helping to create positive differences to local people and joining up health and social care. This is the culmination of many years of effort to build partnership working across the NHS, local authorities, the third sector and patient groups.

Job responsibilities

The purpose of the role is to drive transformation across the ICS through the use of Digital technologies, and to foster a network of clinicians with a digital interest, or those in digital lead clinical roles. This includes:

1. Promoting transformation in Primary Care and throughout the ICS using Digital tools technologies
2. Leading a network of Clinical Digital Leads to identify opportunities for the advancement of digital tools and technologies.
3. Providing Clinical input and leadership to digital projects.

The Steward will drive the development of ICS-wide digital strategy and primary care strategy, particularly with reference to clinical transformation through the use of Digital technologies. By promoting the adoption of Digital technologies, the Steward will contribute to the improvement of quality of care, thus enhancing population health outcomes, and increase the productivity and cost-efficiency of the local NHS.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Very experienced and senior health or care professional in the specialist field(s) in Digital Transformation

Desirable

• Currently working in the N&W ICS

Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area

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

NHS Norfolk and Waveney Integrated Care Board

Address

Norfolk County Council,
City Hall, Martineau Lane,
Norwich
NR2 1NH

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