Digital Clinical Lead
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £53,755.00 to £60,504.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £53755.00 - £60504.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 June 2025 |
| Location: | Northampton, NN1 5BD |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9265-25-0282 |
Summary
Main Duties To operate as a key member of the Chief Clinical Information Officer portfolio which focuses on ensuring there is clinical engagement at all levels of the Group Digital Strategy Promote and lead delivery of effective, safe clinical systems with all groups of clinical, administrative and operational staff Provide clinical advice and guidance to support the delivery of the programmes associated with the Group Digital Strategy including the NGH EPR To support with the efficient and effective management of the on-going EPR development, education, implementation and training of our NGH EPR with our wider EPR programme team To be responsible for supporting digital transformation for new digital solutions and upgrades to existing digital solutions across with clear collaboration with internal and external stakeholders as required Programme leadership/ delivery Ensure visibility within all clinical areas Lead ongoing implementation, development and optimisation of EPR with the wider EPR programme team Work closely with all CCIOs, Digital Clinical Leads, Digital Clinical Facilitators and Transformation Specialists to ensure delivery of EPR Ensure their clinical input in design and configuration of clinical systems and support testing of clinical systems Co-ordinate the collection and dissemination of lessons learnt from projects to define optimal changes in subsequent processes and procedures Support the digital clinical safety officer and promotion of clinical safety within all digital projects and programmes Identify, assess and communicate the impact of risks to programmes and work with project managers and Transformation Specialists for project delivery against realistic timeframes Assesses evolving hospital processes and evaluate how this impacts care Promotes clinical and health intelligence systems capable of reporting measures to evaluate patient outcomes, to support research, and operational improvement across the continuum of care Leadership and engagement Act as role model for all clinical staff providing a high level of expertise and support across all divisions Ensure that the education and developmental needs of staff are commissioned to meet the requirements of the Groups Digital Strategy. Ensuring a competent, technology-enabled workforce Contribute to the assessment of Digital Literacy with the Digital Training and Engagement Manager and Group CCIO Ensure that relevant professional stakeholders are consulted and engaged in the design, delivery and evaluation of clinical information systems and that prioritisation of developments is clinically-led by the appropriate clinical/professional groups Actively seek views from multi-disciplinary, clinical, administrative and operational colleagues and teams in the development of high quality and innovative clinical information systems that assist clinicians in their delivery of care Act as an advocate for digital solutions as an enabler for safe and effective care Convey and receive highly complex, highly sensitive and possibly highly contentious information Ability and capacity to quickly absorb and understand large amounts of complex, information whether in written, verbal, numerical, analytical and electronic forms Act on own initiative to deal with contentious and sensitive issues Work with the Group CCIO and Digital Training and Engagement Manager to develop SOPs/FAQs for clinical engagement Communication/ relationships Establish excellent relationships with Digital teams, staff at all levels and external bodies which will support the implementation of collaborative working through leadership, motivation and inspiration of others To participate as a Digital Responder with the Digital teams and actively support all staff with digital queries Provide leadership and direction across situations where highly complex ideas or concepts need to be conveyed and implemented across the organisation in easily understood language Use well developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, influencing empathetic and / or reassurance skills especially when required to overcome significant barriers to acceptance, thus drawing on the highest level of interpersonal communication skills. Produce and deliver where required formal comprehensive reports to relevant clinical Boards Support the patient voice by working with trust/ group leads to continuously encourage digital volunteers and patient representation in line with the demographic of the population UHN serves Partnership working To work in partnership with wider system leadership structures in supporting collaboration across KGH and NGH and wider ICS/East Midlands Acute Provider Network To represent the Group locally, regionally and nationally where required Innovation Challenge the clinical community to identify areas to try out new ideas in a safe way, seeking to define emergent approaches to digital delivery that can be implemented Identify areas where innovative digital solutions would improve patient care and efficiencies and promote others to do the same Promote the development and implementation of artificial intelligence within the Group to drive excellent patient care Support digital research and innovation strategies For further details please see detailed job description and person specification