Head Of Nursing Informatics (Hni/Cnio)

Job summary The Trust are recruiting a Head of Nursing Informatics (HNI/CNIO) to provide corporate strategic direction and Nursing, Midwifery and AHP leadership on the configuration, implementation, and adoption of the Trust's informatics solutions to ensure the delivery of high-quality health and care services.
This post will report to the Chief Digital and Information Officer and the Chief Nurse.In this role the successful candidate will enable, promote, and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge and technology to support and improve health and health-care delivery, ensuring the organisation has the required cost-effective systems, information, and technology services to provide excellent clinical care to its patients, in conjunction with its partners throughout the wider health and social care community.
Main duties of the job The post holder will provide corporate strategic direction and Nursing leadership on the configuration, implementation, and adoption of the Trust's informatics solutions to ensure the delivery of high-quality health and care services.
The post holder will provide strategic level clinical advice and guidance, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure the appropriate and successful use of integrated knowledge and information as Senior Responsible Owner for allocated initiatives, to ensure fast and effective digital solutions, appropriately configured and delivered to enable the point of care to be paper free.
They will also promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate information culture, as an enabler of change and quality improvement across the HNI/CNIO role will be a full-time post.
About us Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country.
It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.
The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.
Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description Job responsibilities Managerial Relationships:1.
Working to agenda and activities as defined by the Chief Nurse, Medical Director (MD), Chief Digital & Information Officer (CDIO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO).
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Internal:Working with: Chief Nurse and Senior Nurse Management Team, including Divisional Directors of Nursing and Midwifery and Divisional Clinical Directors.
Stakeholders of Health Informatics Systems across the organisation.
Groups, committees, leadership and governance for nursing and clinical process, as they relate to safety, quality, design, improvement and standards related to the configuration, adoption, use and improvement of Health Information Systems.
Chief Digital & Information Officer (CDIO) and Director of Clinical Informatics (CCIO) as part of a triumvirate - these relationships are key to the delivery of the clinical ICT strategy and the roles are expected to work closely together.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specifications for further details.
Person Specification Education Essential Registered Nurse with a current NMC registration and a degree level qualification (or equivalent education or experience) Masters level degree in either informatics, business analysis, process re-engineering or equivalent (or relevant experience) Recognised leadership/management qualification Evidence of continuing professional development Desirable Master's degree in risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience) Postgraduate qualification in Healthcare Information Technology and/or Healthcare Digital Leadership Recognised Teaching Qualification Personal qualities Essential Passionate about information as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support professional practice Ability to write papers at board level with effective presentation skills Excellent communicator both orally and in writing Ability to accurately interpret, manage and communicate highly complex information and data, so that this may be used appropriately Successful influencer and negotiator Excellent manager of people Confidence and self-motivation Credible in a multi-professional environment Resilient, energetic and motivated for the role Ability to undertake significant periods of intense concentration and effort Desirable Member of professional bodies, such as Faculty of Clinical Informatics, British Computer Society, Federation of Informatics Professionals Experience Essential Significant experience in clinical practice in the acute setting, working at a senior level Extensive experience working in a clinical informatics role with active involvement in at least one major informatics intervention (such as deployment of an Electronic Patient Record system) to improve care quality Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting Risk management: training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders within and outside the organisation and in a multi-professional environment Experience of line managing a professional team Desirable Understanding of the local, regional and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners Skills and knowledge Essential Ability to provide a strategic overview of the development of information systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness Ability to work collaboratively across Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Professional teams Information skills: able to critique, interpret, aggregate and articulate complex information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills High level influencing skills: able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes Ability to interface between clinical staff and the EPR team and provide clarity to both on the implementation process, gaining a positive and sustainable approach to implementation that is both practical and timeline driven Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment High level presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in different settings in both 1:1 settings and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc.)
Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT and a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies Change management: experienced in managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change Patient safety: Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards Able and motivated to travel across all sites to address all aspects of the implementation programme and is flexible in being able to do so Desirable Attained national Clinical Safety Training for clinicians