Maternity Informatics Lead

Integrated Care System; Oxford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Integrated Care System is seeking a Maternity Informatics Lead to enhance digital adoption within the organization. The successful candidate will collaborate on IT projects impacting patient care, support training for staff, and monitor the success of digital initiatives. This role requires strong communication, influencing skills, and significant clinical experience to drive improvements in clinical quality and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical practice in the acute setting.
• Active involvement in informatics to improve care quality.
• Ability to engage with a broad range of stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Act as a champion for health informatics, facilitating effective care.
• Promote innovation and monitor service redesign efficiency.
• Engage clinical staff on progress and any barriers to project success.

Skills

Excellent communicator

Influencing skills

Technical skills in ICT

Change management

Education

Significant experience in clinical practice

National Clinical Safety Officer Training

Job description

Go back Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Maternity Informatics Lead

The closing date is 06 August 2025

To act as the representative for digital adoption at a Divisional level, working in partnership with their Senior MIL and the CNIO.

Reach out to, and collaborate with, organisational clinical Digital projects which may have a direct impact on patient care, in association with the CNIO 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 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 in order to raise the profile of the Trust on a national and international level, by working with CNIO 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 act at all times as an advocate for organisational digital alignment

Main duties of the job

To act as a champion within their services for health informatics, facilitating safe and effective care.

To promote innovation and champion the development of an information culture that drives continuous improvement across the organisation.

To assist their services to ensure that they are using informatics to inform and monitor proposed service redesigns so that they are effective in improving clinical practice and patient outcomes

To assist in monitoring regional, national, and international development of health informatics and informatics standards, applying best practice within the services.

To work with the CNIO/Senior MIL in ensuring their services assess potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective, and to advise on actions that the organisation and suppliers may need to take in order to mitigate the risks

To engage and inform managerial staff from clinical areas on progress and of any barriers likely to risk the success of the project.

To contribute toward the collation and analyse of audit results and apply them to improve practice.

To explore opportunities for the introduction of new technology for additional clinical applications.

To be responsible for the education of staff regarding the project and to provide training programmes and training updates in clinical areas.

To work closely and collaboratively with their operational Senior DNIL to provide support to their allocated clinical area.

To deputise for their Senior DNIL as required.

About us

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.

In 2023NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles

Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Job responsibilities

Please see Job Description/Person Specification attached for further information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Personal Qualities

• Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
• Passionate about information as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support professional practice
• Successful influencer and negotiator
• Energetic and motivated for the role
• Ability to write papers at board level with effective presentation skills

Experience

• Significant experience in clinical practice in the acute setting
• Active involvement in at least one informatics intervention to improve care quality
• Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and in a multi-professional environment
• Risk management: training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective
• Understanding of the local, regional and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners

Skills and Knowledge

• Influencing skills: ability to engage clinicians to implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
• 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
• 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
• Attained national Clinical Safety Officer Training for clinicians

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust