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.
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 systems.
Act 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 organisation.
The HNI/CNIO role will be a full-time post.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis 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 viewOUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
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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).
2. 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.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Jan 2025
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