Chief Clinical Informatics Officer - EPR
Job Title : Chief Clinical Informatics Officer - EPR
Hours per week: Full Time - 10 Programmed Activities
Closing Date: 6th December 2024
Interview Date: To Be Confirmed
Employment Type: 0.8 WTE Permanent (Additional PA's available for clinical specialty at GEH as below)
Are you a clinician who is passionate about ensuring excellence in clinical record keeping and the opportunities that digital transformation offers? Are you ready for a new challenge and to play a central, leading role in the design, delivery and implementation of our new electronic patient record (EPR)?
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinician who is passionate about the opportunities within digital to clinically lead the engagement, design and delivery of our new EPR. This will be one of our biggest and most high-profile programmes of digital clinical transformation, so we are looking for someone with energy, passion and the resilience to manage the complexities and risks involved in this critical programme of work.
Crucially, the CCIO will be the bridge between the digital and clinical teams ensuring there is a strong clinical voice in all the workstreams and in our EPR Programme Board. They will lead all clinical engagement activities, encouraging clinical colleagues to take every opportunity to get involved throughout the lifetime of the project ultimately to ensure that the new EPR is safe, it underpins quality, improves the clinician and patient experience and drives efficient delivery of care.
Job responsibilities
The Trust (GEH) is procuring a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) which will enable seamless, integrated care across the Trust and improve the safety, efficiency and quality of care. This will be a single shared instance of EPR across the three trusts of George Eliot Hospital (GEH), South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust (SWFT) and University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, with GEH and SWFT following on with a planned Go Live in 2026 after a UHCW Go Live in June 2024.
This post of an EPR Clinical Chief Information Officer (EPR CCIO) will provide the clinical leadership for the GEH EPR programme, in close collaboration with the CCIO at SWFT and within the above overarching single instance EPR governance across three trusts. They will lead and promote clinical engagement, support user centred design, support clinical safety activities and raise the profile of the programme to ultimately ensure that the new EPR is safe, it underpins quality, improves the clinician and patient experience and drives efficient delivery of care.
Specifically, the post holder will:
1. Ensure the Trusts EPR Programme is clinically owned and reflects clinical as well as organisational priorities.
2. Lead and promote clinical engagement with and adoption of the EPR.
3. Support user centred design, delivery of training and implementation to clinical teams.
4. Drive continuous clinical process improvement in the use of digital technology.
5. Develop information that supports and develops clinical practice.
6. Develop clinical practice that makes the most of digital technology.
The post will be line managed jointly by Chief Operating Officer / Chief Medical Officer.
If you would like to arrange a time discuss the position, please contact Darren Mills, Director, Populo Consulting at darren@populoconsulting.co.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Consultant medical professional with degree qualification.
* On the specialist medical register of the GMC.
* HS Digital Academy Graduate with postgraduate qualification in Digital Health Leadership or equivalent.
* Evidence of on-going continuous professional development in Clinical Informatics and leadership.
* Certified in Clinical Safety of digital systems by NHS Digital.
* Masters in Health Informatics or equivalent.
* Masters in Leadership / Management or equivalent.
* International Recognition as a certified Health IT Professional with following nationally recognised Health IT Bodies.
* Fellowship Trained / Board Certified in Clinical Informatics as per American Board of Medical Specialities.
* Research / Publications in the area of Health Informatics.
Experience
* Extensive experience and currently active in clinical practice with at least 3 years in a consultant level (senior clinical) role.
* Clinical leader for a major ICT implementation project.
* Active involvement in at least one major informatics programme to improve patient care in the last three years.
* Experience of leading and developing clinical teams.
* Experience of leading a significant change project, including knowledge of the principles of cultural change.
* Experience in motivating teams, creating a positive environment which encourages open discussion and innovation, supports performance, builds capability and empowers staff.
* Experience in successfully persuading and influencing individuals and groups at a range of levels on issues which are highly sensitive and contentious e.g. service changes.
Knowledge
* Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of multi-professional stakeholders within and outside the organisation.
* Ability to provide a strategic overview of the role of Health Informatics and Information systems to support high quality of care and organisational effectiveness.
* Competent in the use of Health Informatics and has a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice.
* Successful influencer and negotiator with the ability to persuade clinicians to engage with and implement and embed change.
* High level of personal resilience and ability to deal with the ability to cope with complexity, competing demands, tight timescales despite uncertain outcomes.
* Excellent communication and presentation skills with ability to present to audiences at all levels, including Boards.
* Knowledge of current ICT strategy both locally and Nationally.
* Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT with an excellent level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice.
* Able to work collaboratively with corporate and clinical managers, resolving issues and competing demands as appropriate.
* Uses a range of techniques to achieve acceptable solutions and compromise through collaborative working.
* Expertise in process improvement, data analysis and the use of information systems to develop and support outcome measurement.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
* Sets clear vision, direction, objectives and responsibilities, assumes accountability and inspires others by acting with integrity.
* Drives service improvement and tackles poor performance.
* Excellent communicator both orally and in writing with the ability to express complicated, multi-stranded and technical issues to a wide audience.
* Ability to cope with pressure, conflicts, demands and ambiguities whilst still achieving results.
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.
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