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About
The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (OUH) is one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in the UK, with a national and international reputation for the excellence of its services and its role in teaching and research.
Find out more about the Trust on their web-site at www.ouh.nhs.uk
Watch how OUH goes about delivering compassionate excellence on the ouhnhs YouTube channel
Contact
- Address
- Oxford Univ Hosps NHS Foundation Trust
- OUHC HR Department,
- 3rd Floor Unipart House Business Centre
- Garsington Road
- Oxford
- Oxfordshire
- OX4 2PG
- Contact Number
- 01865 741186
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Head of Nursing Informatics (HNI/CNIO)
Closed for applications on: 31-Mar-2025 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 31-Mar-2025 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- John Radcliffe
- Address
- Headley Way, Headington
- Town
- Oxford
- Postcode
- OX3 9DU
- Major / Minor Region
- Oxfordshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
Specialty
- Main area
- Information Technology
- Interview date
- 10/04/2025
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 of 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.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
Job overview
The Trust are recruiting a Head of Nursing Informatics (HNI/CNIO) to provide corporate strategic direction and Nursing, Midwifery and AHP leadership on the configuration, implementation, and adoption of the Trust’s informatics solutions to ensure the delivery of high-quality health and care services. This post will report to the Chief Digital and Information Officer and the Chief Nurse.
In this role the successful candidate will enable, promote, and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge and technology to support and improve health and health-care delivery, ensuring the organisation has the required cost-effective systems, information, and technology services to provide excellent clinical care to its patients, in conjunction with its partners throughout the wider health and social care community.
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The post holder will provide corporate strategic direction and Nursing leadership on the configuration, implementation, and adoption of the Trust’s informatics solutions to ensure the delivery of high-quality health and care services.
The post holder will provide strategic level clinical advice and guidance, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure the appropriate and successful use of integrated knowledge and information systems.
Act as Senior Responsible Owner for allocated initiatives, to ensure fast and effective digital solutions, appropriately configured and delivered to enable the point of care to be paper free.
They will also promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate information culture, as an enabler of change and quality improvement across the organisation.
The HNI/CNIO role will be a full-time post.
Working for our organisation
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. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Managerial Relationships:
1. Working to agenda and activities as defined by the Chief Nurse, Medical Director (MD), Chief Digital & Information Officer (CDIO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO).
2. Internal:
Working with:
• Chief Nurse and Senior Nurse Management Team, including Divisional Directors of Nursing and Midwifery and Divisional Clinical Directors.
• Stakeholders of Health Informatics Systems across the organisation.
• Groups, committees, leadership and governance for nursing and clinical process, as they relate to safety, quality, design, improvement and standards related to the configuration, adoption, use and improvement of Health Information Systems.
• Chief Digital & Information Officer (CDIO) and Director of Clinical Informatics (CCIO) as part of a triumvirate - these relationships are key to the delivery of the clinical ICT strategy and the roles are expected to work closely together.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specifications for further details.
COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment , we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination.
Vacancy Closures: Please note, this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received.
Probation Period: This post is subject to a 6 month probationary period. If you currently hold a contract of employment with the Oxford University Hospitals, this will not apply. This statement does not apply to Medical staff or Executive Appointments.
Referencing: When providing employment reference details please provide correct work related email addresses so references can be sought promptly when we are looking to progress your application. Your first referee will need to be your line manager, supervisor or clinical lead from your current or most recent post or place of study. Please note that if you have previously worked for the Trust we will require a reference from your last Manager, this information is essential if your offer of employment is to be confirmed.
Next Steps: Please make sure that you read the job description and person specification, and that your supporting statement reflects this as your application will be judged against these criteria. Candidates selected for interview will be contacted after the short-listing process, usually within 2 weeks. (Please note that shortlisting times vary when applying for a Medical position within the Trust). The majority of correspondence will be via the e-recruitment system; therefore you should check your emails regularly including junk mail folders in web-based email products.
No unsolicited recruitment agency telephone calls or emails.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with a current NMC registration and a degree level qualification (or equivalent education or experience)
- Masters level degree in either informatics, business analysis, process re-engineering or equivalent (or relevant experience)
- Recognised leadership/management qualification
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Master's degree in risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience)
- Postgraduate qualification in Healthcare Information Technology and/or Healthcare Digital Leadership
- Recognised Teaching Qualification
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Passionate about information as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support professional practice
- Ability to write papers at board level with effective presentation skills
- Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
- Ability to accurately interpret, manage and communicate highly complex information and data, so that this may be used appropriately
- Successful influencer and negotiator
- Excellent manager of people
- Confidence and self-motivation
- Credible in a multi-professional environment
- Resilient, energetic and motivated for the role
- Ability to undertake significant periods of intense concentration and effort
Desirable criteria
- Member of professional bodies, such as Faculty of Clinical Informatics, British Computer Society, Federation of Informatics Professionals
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in clinical practice in the acute setting, working at a senior level
- Extensive experience working in a clinical informatics role with active involvement in at least one major informatics intervention (such as deployment of an Electronic Patient Record system) 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 within and outside the organisation and in a multi-professional environment
- Experience of line managing a professional team
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of the local, regional and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to provide a strategic overview of the development of information systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness
- Ability to work collaboratively across Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Healthcare Professional teams
- Information skills: able to critique, interpret, aggregate and articulate complex information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills
- High level influencing skills: able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
- Ability to interface between clinical staff and the EPR team and provide clarity to 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
- High level 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
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies
- Change management: experienced in managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment
- Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Attained national Clinical Safety Training for clinicians
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ben Attwood
- Job title
- Chief Digital & Information Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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