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Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide Practitioner leadership (like the concept of Clinical Leadership in Digital contexts but reflecting the role of Digital transformation across both Health and Social Care) to digital transformations.
Support the development of relationships of health and social care in support of the Digital Transformation Directorate and strategy, help Heads of Digital Transformation ensure sufficient clinical/practitioner leadership is available to digital transformation, and provide an assurance role for the clinical and practitioner support for Digital Transformation Portfolios.
Will be a qualified Clinical Safety Officer and be responsible for the management of clinical risk in digital deliveries, co-ordinating clinical risk logs and workshops.
About us
NHS Sussex ICB are committed to enabling team members to work in an agile and flexible way. We adopt a flexible first approach to working patterns. We empower our people to work where, when, and how they choose with minimum constraints to support their wellbeing to sustain good work life balance and to optimise performance and delivery.
We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Agile working is not just related to working from different locations or at different times. It is about effectively utilising technology to improve work practices and to work differently to increase our overall effectiveness to improve health outcomes for our population.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please contact the Recruitment Team at scw.peopleresource@nhs.net to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
NHS Sussex has committed to achieving Net Zero Carbon emissions by 2045. As a member of staff you will be encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working that will help us achieve that goal.
Job responsibilities
The postholder will provide Practitioner leadership (similar to the concept of Clinical Leadership in Digital contexts but reflecting the role of Digital transformation across both Health and Social Care) to digital transformations. Support the development of relationships of health and social care in support of the Digital Transformation Directorate and strategy, help Heads of Digital Transformation ensure sufficient clinical/practitioner leadership is available to digital transformation, and provide an assurance role for the clinical and practitioner support for Digital Transformation Portfolios. Will be a qualified Clinical Safety Officer and be responsible for the management of clinical risk in digital deliveries, co-ordinating clinical risk logs and workshops. Will develop and coordinate a Sussex system wide approach to clinical safety in digital products. Will act as a liaison with the Sussex Clinical Professional Leadership Forum. The Clinical Product Owner will work with colleagues in the Integrated Care Board (ICB) and Integrated Care System (ICS) and NHS and care organisations in Sussex, VCSE, NHSE and other organisations as appropriate to develop digital and health systems and services to facilitate and collaborate in safe and effective implementation or further development of various programmes to improve health and care services and the patient and staff experience. The post is responsible for providing professional expertise to the outcome of the business processes for the Department or Directorate. The post holder will define current processes, facilitate discussions and advise colleagues as to how best practice might be adopted in the definition of future processes, document those processes as they are agreed and oversee their delivery. The job description is an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role, and the job specification is an outline of the skills, experience and qualities needed. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonably be required by their line manager. The job description and person specification may be reviewed on an ongoing basis in accordance with the changing needs of the Department and the Organisation.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
* Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
* Good presentational skills for conveying complex concepts.
* Ability to use informed persuasion to influence others.
* Ability to identify risks, anticipate issues and create solutions and to resolve problems in relation to project or service delivery.
* Ability to understand a broad range of complex information quickly and making decisions where opinions differ/no obvious solution.
* Abilities for financial and staff management
* Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills.
* Ability to work without supervision, providing specialist advice to the organisation, working to tight and often changing timescales.
* Interpreting national policy for implementation
Experience
* Experience of planning and delivering programmes and projects and services on time
* Experience of operating at a senior level
Qualifications
* Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
* Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to masters level equivalent.
* Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
* Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
* Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the NHS England, individual provider, and commissioning organisations
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