Senior Clinical Informatics specialist

NHS England; Leeds; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organisation in Leeds seeks a Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist to shape national programmes and lead clinical teams. Candidates must be registered health or care professionals with advanced clinical safety officer skills. This role involves stakeholder engagement and supporting technology use in healthcare for better patient care. The position offers the chance to work in a collaborative, multi-professional environment during a time of significant change.

Qualifications

• Must be a registered health or care professional.
• Advanced specialist knowledge as Clinical Safety Officers.
• Experience engaging with sensitive and complex issues.

Responsibilities

• Shape safe delivery of national programmes.
• Act as key clinical voice within programme teams.
• Lead and support clinicians in the organisation.

Skills

Clinical Safety Officer knowledge

Stakeholder engagement

Multi-professional teamwork

Education

Registered health or care professional

Job description

In this Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist role, you will join a diverse team of clinicians working across NHS England’s Transformation Directorate. You will help shape the safe delivery of national programmes, ensuring clear benefits for patients and the public, and supporting clinicians to deliver better care.

Our Senior Clinical Informaticians set direction and provide the framework for Clinical Informaticians leading large-scale change. You will also act as a key clinical voice within programme teams.

You will regularly engage with internal and external stakeholders, often on complex or sensitive issues. You will lead and support clinicians across the organisation, ensuring programmes have access to appropriate clinical input and are represented at Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels, or Advisory Groups.

You’ll join a multi-professional team of experienced clinicians who have chosen informatics as their specialist field. It’s an exciting time to join, as clinical informatics plays an increasingly vital role in the safe and effective use of technology across health and care.

Candidates must be registered and regulated health or care professionals, with advanced specialist knowledge and training as Clinical Safety Officers (CSOs).

Appointments may be made under Agenda for Change or Medical and Dental terms, depending on experience and professional registration.

In this role, you will be required to have regular contact with internal and external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex and contentious issues. You will also be expected to lead and support other clinicians across the organisation, ensuring programmes and services have access to appropriate clinical support and are represented in externally facing Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels or Clinical Advisory Groups.

You will join a multi-professional team of experienced clinicians with a variety of clinical backgrounds, all of whom have chosen informatics as a specialist area of expertise.

You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as the role of clinical informaticians becomes more important than ever before in supporting the safe and effective use of technology across health and social care services, for the benefit of patients and citizens.

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.

Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

We Lead The NHS In England By

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.

If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.

For further details or informal visits, please contact: Name: Diane Marshman, Job title: Business coordinator, Email address: [e-mail]