Divisional Informatics Lead

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS teaching trust in Oxford seeks a digital health informatics professional to optimize clinical workflows and lead digital adoption projects. Applicants must have relevant nursing qualifications, leadership skills, and a passion for improving patient care. Successful candidates will engage with stakeholders to implement effective informatics solutions in a clinical setting.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Midwife/AHP with relevant degree qualification.
• Recognised leadership/management qualification.
• Demonstrable understanding of informatics within the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Act as the representative for digital adoption at a Divisional level.
• Develop measures to evaluate the success of digital adoption.
• Engage managerial staff from clinical areas on project progress.

Skills

Leadership

Change management

Communication skills

Technical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Registered Nurse/Midwife/AHP with relevant degree

Leadership/management qualification

Job description

Responsibilities

• To act as the representative for digital adoption at a Divisional level, working in partnership with their Deputy Head of Nursing Informatics and the HNI.
• Reach out to, and collaborate with, organisational clinical IT projects which may have a direct impact on patient care, in association with the HNI and DNIL team.
• To use clinical and organisational experience to benefit and enhance organisational systems utilising a similar ethos and workflow.
• To develop measures to evaluate the success of digital adoption, report results and refine processes as necessary.
• To seek opportunities which may benefit from, or contribute toward, IT projects developing across the OUH Trust, aligning these with the core OUH digital ethos.
• To be mindful of projects which may benefit from EPR functionality and work with these teams to provide meaningful outcomes beneficial to all.
• To support and develop associated IT projects to raise the profile of the Trust on a national and international level, by working with HNI and CCIO, to support publications and presentations at a national and international level.
• Lead on optimising and integrating hardware and non-hardware application-based systems (handheld devices, tablet computers, iPads, web-based developments, paediatric and adult wristbands, barcode scanning and printers) to optimise clinical workflows.
• To always act as an advocate for organisational digital alignment, to liaise closely with the AHP, medical, nursing, midwifery and technical staff to promote appropriate system development and adoption in line with clinical need.
• To engage and inform managerial staff from clinical areas on progress and of any barriers likely to risk the success of the project.
• To identify measures which may be necessary to promote digital adoption and reduce hybrid working between EPR, parallel digital and paper systems.
• To demonstrate clinical excellence and high standards of nursing practice to other staff.
• To enshrine the principles of the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers in undertaking all aspects of your role.
• To act as a 'change agent' to promote innovation and high standards of practice.
• To follow, at all times, the Code of Professional Conduct as laid down by the NMC and to ensure that all staff within their sphere of responsibility also follow this code.
• To advise and develop standards and guidelines in using all aspects involved in the project.

Management and Administration

• To work closely and collaboratively with their operational Deputy HNI to provide support to their allocated clinical area.
• To ensure the promotion of the safety, wellbeing and interests of the patients and healthcare professionals and to pay regard to the Oxford University Hospitals (OUH) NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures.
• To deputise for their Deputy HNI as required.
• To attend and contribute to relevant local, national and international clinical/research meetings.
• To liaise with commercial company representatives to maintain good communication and co-ordination of the project to ensure collaboration.
• The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse/Midwife/AHP with relevant degree qualification
• Recognised leadership/management qualification
• Demonstrable understanding of informatics within the organisation

Desirable criteria

• Master's degree in risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience), Significant experience in clinical practice in the acute setting
• Active involvement in at least one informatics intervention to improve care quality
• Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting
• Risk management: training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective
• Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and in a multi-professional environment
• Understanding of the local, regional and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners, Ability to provide the trust wide and Divisional strategic overview of the development of information systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness.
• Influencing skills: ability to engage clinicians to implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
• Ability to interface between clinical staff and the informatics team, to provide clarity, both on the implementation process, gaining a positive and sustainable approach to implementation that is both practical and timeline driven
• Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
• Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment
• Presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in different settings in both 1:1 settings and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc.)
• Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT and a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
• Change management: demonstrable experience in managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment
• Patient safety: Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards
• Able and motivated to travel across all sites to address all aspects of the implementation programme and is flexible in being able to do so
• Attained national Clinical Safety Training for clinicians
• Information skills: able to critique and interpret aggregate information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills
• Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies
• Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change, Passionate about information as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support professional practice
• Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
• Successful influencer and negotiator
• Confidence and self-motivation
• Credible in a multi-professional environment
• Resilient
• Energetic and motivated for the role
• You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is 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. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.