Chief Medical Information Officer

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust; Worthing; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits for a consultant psychiatrist to lead digital transformation at a forward-thinking NHS Trust. This role focuses on enhancing patient care through innovative digital solutions, including the implementation of new electronic systems. Joining a dedicated team, you'll have the chance to influence change and improve the quality of mental health services across the community. With a commitment to flexible working and professional development, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on patient lives while advancing your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Fully funded lifelong learning opportunities

Supportive work environment

Professional development programs

Qualifications

• Registered medical practitioner with at least 5 years of NHS experience.
• Strong background in digital transformation and clinical leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead the digital agenda and its application to medical practice.
• Provide strategic medical leadership for digital transformation.

Skills

Digital Transformation

Stakeholder Engagement

Clinical Leadership

Quality Improvement Methodologies

Healthcare Informatics

Education

Registered Medical Practitioner

NHS Digital Health Leadership Alumni (MSc or PGDip)

Tools

Electronic Patient Record Systems

Electronic Prescribing Systems

Job description

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Sussex Partnerships have an exciting opportunity for a consultant psychiatrist with an interest in digital transformation.

The post of Chief Medical Information Officer is a newly created post to support the digital transformation work at SPFT. We are looking for an enthusiastic medic to add to the digital team.

Main duties of the job

This post holder has a responsibility for working with the Chief Clinical Information Officer and digital clinical team to develop and deliver the digital strategy of the Trust. This will include being a key part of the implementation of the new electronic patient record system and electronic prescribing system.

The post holder will provide senior professional leadership to the Trust’s and wider system digital transformation programme.

They will identify opportunities to transform practice for the benefit of patients and carers. They will provide expert professional advice, work with key stakeholders and ensure digital transformation is aligned with trust strategy.

Working for our organisation

At Sussex Partnership we are committed to providing opportunities for flexible working. If you would like to work differently or different hours to as advertised, please get in touch to discuss this in more detail.

Also, if you haven't thought about living and working in West Sussex before then you should consider the following:

1. Journey from the coast to the countryside in minutes
2. Enjoy a lifestyle where there are renowned cycle routes and picturesque walks, including the famous South Downs Way in the South Downs National Park!
3. Embrace taking time to discover all the miles of scenic coastline
4. Easy access to airports - Gatwick and Heathrow are both within 90 minutes of the county, providing links to Europe and beyond
5. London is also within easy reach via local and national bus routes and national mainline stations

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holders main responsibilities are:

• Responsible for leading the digital agenda and its application to medical practice.
• Responsible for providing a strong medical voice within the digital transformation programme, to ensure best and safest practice digital healthcare are delivered.
• Responsible for ensuring the right clinical stakeholder engagement in the digital transformation of quality patient centered mental health and care services and providing strategic medical leadership to support their delivery.
• Contribute to strategic leadership of digitally enabled healthcare and contribute to the digital and data clinical team. Alongside the CCIO and digital clinical leads they will work closely with the operational divisions to deliver digital transformation.
• Develop methodologies to measure and evaluate the outcome of clinical system implementations.
• Actively contribute to digital and medical governance committees and act as a clinical safety officer for specific projects and digital products (in accordance with digital clinical safety standards).

Person specification

Essential and desirable

• Registered and licensed medical practitioner on the GMC specialist register and eligible for substantive consultant appointment.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a senior position within the NHS in England
• Track record of delivering large scale change and knowledge of quality improvement methodologies and evidence in a multi-agency community setting
• Evidence of effective influence over a wide range of stakeholders
• Broad knowledge of new technologies and their potential for application in healthcare and understanding of the wider NHS Informatics agenda.
• NHS Digital Health Leadership Alumni (MSc or PGDip)
• Certified Clinical Safety Officer (NHSE training)
• Experience as clinical director or equivalent in a mental health trust
• Able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority, Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarise themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.