Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment: As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel. If you have any queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via email robert.saunders1@nhs.net The post will be responsible for leading the Senior Digital Nurses, Change and Benefits lead providing clinical leadership to the wider multi-disciplinary Digital Programme team. Working alongside system suppliers and clinical configuration analysts to ensure clinical needs are understood and reflected in the Digital Programme deployment. The role will work alongside the clinical leads to support staff to receive training in using information technology and will evidence the progress of the programme within the clinical area through the provision of regular reports to the Digital Steering Group. The post holder will manage and be accountable for the Senior Digital Nurses, Change and Benefits lead, and Clinical Digital Team. Responsible for budget management efficiencies and identifying benefits of both quantifiable and qualitative in respect of transformation aligned to the digital programme. The below individual responsibilities are integral to ensuring that excellent communication and collaboration with clinical staff, patients and patient representatives across the Trust is achieved. In so doing, striving for excellence in the care and treatment for patients and their carers. Take responsibility and accountability alongside the CCIO for the strategic clinical direction of digital health Informatics and technology design, implementation, and delivery within the Trust. Advise the Chief Nurse, CCIO, the senior leadership team and executive team on implications of national and local system wide policy/strategy development from a clinical digital perspective. Provide leadership, guidance, and exercise judgement in supporting staff to obtain co-operation from a range of clinicians, administrators, members of internal development team(s), users digital professionals whether through one-to-one communication, in large audiences across all levels of seniority within the clinical community. Be the Senior Clinical Nurse/ Midwife /Allied Health Professional leader responsible for transformation and cultural change to support the safe and efficient design, implementation, and use of digital solutions to deliver improvements in the quality and outcomes of patient care. Provide a strong Nurse/ Midwife /Allied Health Professional voice and vision using advanced communication methods to ensure the best and safest possible digital healthcare systems are delivered. Understand emerging trends and promote innovation in Nurse/ Midwife/ Allied Health Professional practice within the Trust using new technology e.g., Artificial intelligence. Celebrate good practice and seek opportunities to endorse best practice through conferences, presentations, and peer review. Lead and/or collaborate in Regional and National forums and networks i.e., Regional CNIO Network, National Digital Discussion Group, HIMSS UK Committee. Lead and/or collaborate in ICB/ICS Regional Digital Programmes. i.e., ICS Digital Clinical Leaders Forum. Keep abreast of developments and advise the Chief Nurse in the communication and delivery of national digital guidance through rapid interpretation, assessment of gap analysis and action planning for implementation e.g., what good looks like. Be responsible for leading and supporting the delivery of a range of innovative digital and information strategies to enable achievement of the Trusts vision within the Patient First programme. Be responsible for assessing and managing clinical risk and ensure that all new systems have had a digital clinical safety case completed prior to implementation within the clinical setting. Lead on shaping new Nurse/ Midwife/ Allied Health Professional models for patient care that fully integrate the use of the digital health record and leads to more efficient, safer, and high-quality services. Lead the Nurse/ Midwife/ Allied Health Professional development of electronic health records in the Trust and local health economy, ensuring full functionality of systems in place are utilised. Maintain own professional development through attendance at digital network meetings, Digital Summer School, and NHS Digital courses. Co-ordinate the cross-site development of digital clinical systems of work in line with clinical requirements and priorities. Have an ongoing oversight of the clinical challenges for patients, staff and the Trust ensuring timely communication and reporting to appropriate associated steering groups and committees. Be able to show empathy and understanding where and when clinical teams are highly sensitive to clinical change and ensure that reassurance and motivation to participate and continue with the programme of change is given. Provide highly specialised clinical advice to inform the development and roll out of the EPR which contributes to the effective and responsive diagnosis and treatment of patients across the Trusts clinical services. Ensure project teams can take-on and complete delegated tasks, ensuring timely effective project administration, co-ordination, communication control. Oversee contacts with wards and clinical departments, system suppliers and wider digital programme team. Required to provide and receive highly complex, potentially sensitive, or contentious information with/from clinical areas and the digital team where barriers of understanding may exist. Lead on the identified clinical requirements and ensure these are achievable, identifying any resource issues, risks or constraints that could restrict progress or reduce effectiveness in the clinical area. Produce and report to the Digital Steering Group on project documentation to accepted Trust wide standards to control the development or implementation of any new system or service. Have oversight and accountability in the management of a range of Projects for the Digital Programme and DCR developments, either independently or in conjunction with system suppliers' Project Managers, Clinical leads, and appropriate Divisional leads. Monitoring of delegated project tasks and resources throughout project lifecycle through use of Quality Improvement Methodology. Take responsibility for progress and request the use of resources as required, initiating corrective action as necessary (within agreed delegated boundaries). Monitor progress and provide verbal or written reports through the digital programme governance structure as well as immediate line manager identifying all progress in relation to project plans and communicating any known problems or issues that are liable to have an impact on the department, ward or location. Working alongside the Programme Director - DCR to ensure appropriate testing and audit strategies are in place for new or existing products at any point in their life cycle. Working alongside the Programme Director - DCR to manage and report on user-led testing programmes so that accurate test data is available to judge a products fitness for clinical purpose, its readiness for use and evaluated outcomes. Ensure all testing programmes have clinical engagement and this is evaluated and reported. Ensure that patient safety at the center of all digital programs and that any risk for fail is clearly documented and tracked. Lead the active involvement strategies within the project design for involvement of clinical staff in redesign of systems and any decision regarding implementation of information systems in clinical area. Lead the active involvement of patients, patient representative, and patient public forum members in formal risk assessments to ensure the new way of working is suitable for them and their needs. Lead specific change management initiatives across clinical areas for Nurse/ Midwife /Allied Health Professional encouraging user ownership of the project and ensuring that effective project communications are maintained. Initiate and participate in the generation and introduction of formal change controls. Contribute and actively participate in the Digital Design Authority, Change Advisory Board and other wider governance mechanisms and Committees covering - Senior Nursing and Midwifery, Group Clinical Governance Group and Trust Management Executive. A full detailed job description and person specification is attached in the supporting information section.