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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

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Contact
- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
Nursing Information Officer - Evelina Clinical Group
Closed for applications on: 5-Aug-2024 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 5-Aug-2024 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Evelina London
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 8 months (Acting up/secondment request will also be considered)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
Salary
- Salary
- £58,698 - £65,095 p.a inc. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Nursing Information Officer
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a fixed term, full time or part-time job share, role as a Nursing/ Midwifery Information Officer (NIO/ MWIO) for the Evelina Clinical Group.
We are looking for people whose genuine enthusiasm for digital healthcare will be passed onto the rest of the staff base. This will also require the post holder to be resilient and adaptable in order to deliver the programme of work successfully.
Advert
The position will focus on supporting the Evelina's digital and nursing & midwifery agenda, which will include optimisation of Epic, working closely with the Information Technology Clinical Systems (ITCS) team and the CNIO team.
You will have a solid understanding of clinical services in the Evelina, and a flexible approach that enables you to represent colleagues across the workforce, both within the Evelina and across GSTT.
You will act as a professional lead, supporting Evelina nursing & midwifery teams in delivering digital innovation in the clinical and operational environment.
You will support and guide the delivery of digital initiatives and strategy for nursing & midwifery, as well as acting in an advisory capacity.
You will support clinical safety and compliance with all nursing & midwifery related standards, protocols and guidelines set either by the Trust, nationally, or by other external bodies.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Rapid innovation in digital continues to fundamentally change the way patients, clinicians and providers interact and transform healthcare. Patients and front-line staff expect more from digital technologies; to communicate, share information about care, and manage health needs. Finding new ways to sustainably deliver care is always going to be about different ways of supporting our staff and patients and working with our partners to deliver seamless care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Apply, on behalf of the Chief Nursing Information Officer the digital agenda as it applies to nursing and midwifery practice.
- Collaborate with teams on process and pathway standardisation for nursing and midwifery.
- Support the digitally enabled healthcare strategy, realising the full capabilities of our clinical, corporate and research systems.
- Supporting quality improvement programmes.
- Provide a Nursing and Midwifery voice within the Digital Technology directorate to ensure we deliver the best and safest possible digital healthcare platforms that Nurses & Midwives want to use.
- Advise on whether Nurses and Midwives in the portfolio have the relevant knowledge & skills (as laid down in HEE digital literacy framework) to be effective users of and leaders in digitally enabled care.
- Contribute to decision making on build and configuration.
- Learn elements of the Epic applications and contribute to decision making on build and configuration.
- Support efforts to attract, develop and retain Nursing and Midwifery staff to the Digital Technology directorate.
- Support local nursing teams to develop an ongoing and robust business continuity plan. Ensure nursing teams are prepared for any planned or unplanned downtime events.
- Support the management and tracking of cash-releasing and qualitative benefits in relation to nursing and midwifery following implementation of the Apollo programme and delivery of other transformational projects and programmes
• Gain the relevant knowledge & skills (as laid down in HEE digital literacy framework) to champion the NIO role and become a role model to nursing and midwifery colleagues for digitally enabled care.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of supporting the delivery of benefits and change management in a healthcare setting
- Experience of supporting clinical elements of IT/Information projects
- Excellent clinical and managerial knowledge of one or more specific area, including knowledge of relevant operational policies and procedures
Desirable criteria
- Experience in the implementation of electronic health records
Skills, Knowledge, Ability
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with staff at all levels in the organisation
- Ability to lead, manage and motivate staff into achieving a common goa
- An ability to apply clinical and technical understanding and knowledge to day to day clinical and operational practice
Desirable criteria
- Enhanced understanding of digital healthcare systems
- Experience in one of the Epic modules
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent experience
- Advanced clinical qualifications and evidence of ongoing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
- Informatics/IT Qualification
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dan Wicks
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Nursing Information Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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