Senior Digital Nurse (XR07)

Are you ready to use your clinical skills in a way that makes a positive impact on people's lives? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity to become a member of our Clinical Digital Team within the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

This is a key clinical digital role working across the Trust, we are looking for someone who is passionate about harnessing the potential that digital innovation can bring to patients and citizens of Leeds. The post holder will ensure that the clinical data/digital needs of Nurses, Midwives, Allied Health Professionals are fully represented.

As a Senior Digital Nurse/Midwife/AHP (NMAHP) you will be a core member of the Clinical Digital Team within Digital Services. Contributing clinical oversight to a wide range of digital innovation projects and sharing your expertise of clinical care and health and care systems to deliver user-led and effective digital innovation within LTHT services, enabling better patient experiences and health and care outcomes. This post requires an individual with multi-professional Clinical Digital experience combined with communication and influencing skills.

The post holder will help embed What Good Looks Like (WGLL) across Leeds Teaching Hospitals and support delivery of the NMAHP Digital Strategy. In return, we can offer you a varied, interesting, and challenging role working as part of a fantastic team and offering all the support you need to learn at pace and achieve your career ambitions.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for supporting the Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer (ACCIO) and Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officers (DCCIOs) in advancing the Digital Transformational agenda and NMAHP Digital Strategy across Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHT).

This role requires an individual who is passionate about digital with a desire to help influence and drive change across the organisation by building productive, sustainable, and effective clinical digital partnerships and environments.

You will work collaboratively with Clinical Digital colleagues, Clinical Service Units, and frontline staff acting as a champion for digital working, promoting innovation and championing the development of an information culture across LTHT.

You will maintain active professional registration with your appropriate governing body and work with the Clinical Digital Team to help bridge the gap between DIT and frontline teams ensuring the voice of the workforce and service users are effectively represented.

You will support the development, delivery, implementation, and use of informatics solutions in partnership with DIT colleagues using systems methodology to ensure our digital solutions are meeting the needs of our workforce and service users.

You will be supported by the ACCIO and DCCIOs to help optimise use of digital tools and technology, to deliver LTHT's 7 Commitments and the NMAHP Digital Strategy to deliver safe, efficient care and improve patient outcomes and experience.

About us

DIT at LTHT is a highly motivated and inclusive place to work. We hold our Leeds Way Values in high esteem and respect all colleagues. Within the trust, we are always looking to improve and give the best service possible, and we are looking for individuals with the same drive to join us.

DIT looks after the Trust's information technology, responsible for delivering and embedding the latest digital innovations, finding the right hardware and software to meet business needs, turning information into insight and everything in between. It's an exciting time to join us, as we offer varied and rewarding opportunities.

We'd love to consider your application if you want to be a part of delivering operational services that allow patients to be treated effectively across Leeds.

Please note that if you are applying for a fixed-term position, should funding be available to support there may be a possibility of the position becoming permanent.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay, or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

Please see supporting documents for full Job Description with further information on requirements of the role, the department, workflows, and full person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Midwife/AHP with relevant professional degree or equivalent
• Postgraduate Qualification in or equivalent advanced specialist knowledge in Information Technology

Experience

• Experience of working at a senior level in nursing/midwifery or AHP (band 6 or above)
• Experience and knowledge of the Trust digital transformation strategy and national strategies.
• Experience of audits, project work and managing change Knowledge of national/local IT strategies implementing IT systems and planning changes to service and procedures in clinical areas

Skills and Behaviours

• Professional attitude
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Flexible
• Strategic thinker
• Organisational skills
• Deal with patients, professional and non-professional staff with honesty and integrity
• Highly motivated to ensure that service is continually assessed to ensure improved patient outcomes/experience
• Empathetic and sensitive to customer needs (these include both patients and members of NHS staff)
• Public sector values, enthusiastic about making a difference

Other Criteria

• Skills in Information Technology
• Ability to interpret complex data and present information to influence decision makers
• Experience of writing reports
• Experience IT skills for data interpretation and presentations
• Experience of presenting research

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.

Deputy Chief Clinical Information Officer