Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO)
Job summary
This role will be the lead for the practice development of digital capabilities and competencies for our Nursing, Midwifery and AHP workforce across both Acute and Community teams.
The CNIO is a core member of both the Digital Team and the Chief Nurse's team, with accountability to serve as advisor to the Chief Nurse. As a transformational leader with exemplary clinical credibility, the CNIO will support the Trust by providing strong clinical professional leadership to the Trust's and wider system digital transformation programme, and wider nursing, midwife and AHP strategy.
They will identify opportunities to transform practice for the benefit of people who use our services. In partnership with the wider office of the Chief Nurse, the CNIO will provide expert professional advice and guidance; working with key stakeholders to ensure patient and clinical involvement is truly aligned to the planning, development, delivery, and evaluation of services.
This is a key role in terms of delivering our Digital Health Programme which includes our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme for Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust as an integrated Acute and Community Hospital
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will act as the advisor and influencer and voice for nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals in the strategic direction of IT. Shaping the design, implementation and use of digital solutions to ensure the delivery of high-quality healthcare services.
- The post holder will also drive and lead on IT innovation and champion the development of a clinically driven information culture. They will lead and enable change, focusing on quality improvement through IT systems across the organisation.
- Work closely with the Director of Digital, Data and Technology, Chief Digital and Transformation Director, Chief Clinical Information Officers and Transformation teams as the Nursing, Midwifery and AHP professional lead.
- Implement, and optimise the use of, digital systems for the benefit of patients, nurses, doctors, allied health professionals and other multidisciplinary care providers such as GPs and Social Care providers
- Ensure strong clinical leadership, support change management and adoption of the digital strategy and associated transformation programmes by nurses, midwives and AHPs.
- Provide leadership and direction for nursing, midwifery and AHP informatics with a primary focus on clinical practice including research in support of interdisciplinary patient-centred care
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?o As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.o We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes. o We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.Why work for us?o We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.o As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.o Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.What do we stand for?o Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.o Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.o Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
Person Specification
Education, Qualifications & Training
- Registered nurse or midwife or AHP with extensive leadership experience
- Master's degree level or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Agile delivery qualification e.g. ScrumMaster, AgilePM.
- Completion of, or registered to attend a recognised Digital Leadership course (for example, NHS Digital Leadership Academy/Topol Fellowship)
- Quality improvement methodology qualification e.g. QSIR
Experience
- Subject matter expertise across a number of key areas relating to digital transformation and enablement of the workforce
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical or care setting with demonstrated success in overcoming resistance to a change in nursing practice.
- Involvement with regional or national initiatives which could include nursing research to support the delivery of evidence-based nursing practice
- Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2, Agile, or Managing Successful Projects
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes
- Experience as a Chief Nursing Information Officer/Chief Clinical Information Officer or equivalent in an Acute and/or Community Hospital environment, supporting an Electronic Patient Record implementation
Skills, abilities and knowledge
- 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 influencing skills: able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes.
- Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT, systems within the organisation a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice.
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and an interest in emerging technologies, clinical information systems, outcomes and measures
- Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of nursing information-enabled change and drive through these benefits through to fruition.
- Resilient: Able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary, working to tight and often changing deadlines.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Autonomy to undertake actions as a result of own interpretation of policy and guidance providing a source of expert advice to the organisation
- Passionate about informatics and technology as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support of nursing and midwifery professional practice.
- Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
- Ability to operate in a value-driven style consistent with the values of the public services and specifically with our organisational values
- Ability to travel to all Trust sites
Values
- Communicates openly, honestly and professionally, and actively promotes team working and building strong working relationships
- Patients are always first. Drives service improvements. Strong self-awareness with a desire to grow.
- Treats all with compassion and kindness. Ensures everyone feels valued.
- Consults others and listens to their views/opinions. Enables others to take the initiative
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Address
Aylesbury
Mandeville Road
Aylesbury
HP21 8AL
https://careers.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/
- Company
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Location
- Aylesbury, United Kingdom HP21 8AL
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £83571.00 - £96376.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Location
- Aylesbury, United Kingdom HP21 8AL
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £83571.00 - £96376.00 a year
- Posted