Senior Clinical Informatics specialist

An opportunity has arisen for experienced clinicians to join the Transformation Directorate's Digital Clinical Informatics team. We are recruiting for a Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist within the NHS Pathways team.

NHS Pathways is an evidence-based suite of clinical content that supports Urgent & Emergency care within the NHS. It is used across NHS 111 and 999 Telephony, NHS 111 Online and in Urgent and emergency Treatment centres. Our clinical team uses system data and clinical acumen to develop, and maintain, the questions, care advice and algorithms, continuously improving the product for use in Urgent and Emergency Care.

The system underpins the largest telephone triage system in the world and enables the triage of approximately 25 million calls annually.

The clinical content of the system is governed by the National Clinical Advisory Group, which has representation from all the major, relevant Royal Colleges, chaired by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.

Main duties of the job

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to undertake original authoring, development, review and maintenance of the clinical content of NHS Pathways.
• Providing highly specialist Urgent & Emergency Care Clinical Informatics advice and input into the development and maintenance of the NHS Pathways Clinical Decision Support System.
• Analysing and interpreting large data sets such as patient outcome data and system data, clinical evidence and research, national clinical guidance to inform development of the product.
• Engagement with stakeholders within NHS England such as Emergency Call Prioritisation Advisory Group, Clinical Coding Reference Group, National and externally with the National Clinical Assurance Group, Resus UK, Association of Medical Directors, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives and NHS 111 and 999 provider forums.
• Support the transformation programme of NHS Pathways.
• Liaise with the systems development team to ensure that the system is clinically safe and provides accurate and timely information to client, in line with NHS service requirements.
• Liaison with the wider clinical community in relation to both the clinical development of Pathways and the implementation of the Pathways system.
• Undertake on-call responsibilities as the first point of contact in an emergency.

About us

The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care.
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation.

Job responsibilities

• Using your current specialist Urgent & Emergency Care/Triage knowledge you will provide highly specialist Clinical Informatics advice and input into the development and maintenance of the NHS Pathways Clinical Decision Support System.
• In-depth analysis, interpretation of clinical evidence, health information and data with review of its effectiveness when used live across NHS.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to undertake original authoring, development, review and maintenance of the clinical content of NHS Pathways.
• Supporting the NHS England Digital Clinical Governance Framework, working across services, programmes and projects.
• Providing highly specialised clinical informatics advice and expertise to both clinical and non-clinical staff across assignments.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Currently registered and regulated health or social care professional with significant evidence of continued professional development.
• You will be a UK registered clinician with proven credibility and the ability to command respect from clinical and non-clinical professionals.

Knowledge and Experience

• Current or varied experience working within Urgent and emergency Care and/or a telephone triage environment.
• Proven high-level experience of supporting delivery of complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment.

Skills

• Demonstrable experience of clinical governance frameworks with a strategic understanding of clinical risk and clinical safety, applied through risk assessment and clinical safety methodology.
• Demonstrable people and professional leadership skills that empower, support, and develop teams to achieve high performance and enable team members to reach their full potential.

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.

Job locations

NHS England Office in Leeds/London

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year (exclusive of London weighting)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

990-TD-CTDCI-6842781-E