Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- Band 9
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 236-NCA-NM251-24
- Employer
- Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NCA Wide
- Town
- Salford
- Salary
- £99,891 - £114,949 p.a. inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Nursing Information Officer
Band 9
Job overview
The NCA is seeking an inspirational and innovative digital leader.
The role involves advocating for and supporting user focused digital transformation externally and internally. The Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) will drive and lead on digital innovation and champion the development of a productive and fit for the future nursing, midwifery and AHP information and data culture. They will lead and enable change, focusing on quality improvements through adoption of digital systems across the organisation.
The post-holder will work across all four hospital sites acting as an influencer and voice for nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals in the strategic direction for the Trust, that is clinically led, digitally enabled and operationally delivered.
As an experienced clinician, the CNIO will be in a unique position to truly understand the value a particular technology can bring to the advancement of nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals practice and quality of care at Trust and to the community at large. The role involves advocating and supporting user focused digital transformation externally and internally.
Main duties of the job
The Chief Nursing Information Officer will work closely with the Chief Clinical Information Officer and Chief Nurse as well as the Nursing, Midwifery and AHP's professional leads to deliver digital transformation for their area within the organisation.
The CNIO will collaborate with technical, clinical and transformation teams to design future clinical processes and workflows, maximised for patient safety and service efficiency. They will help to improve access to point of care data in improvement measurement formats to support frontline quality improvement efforts.
They are expected to influence and clinically lead (as part of a team with the Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) and CCIO) the implementation of new and optimisation of existing digital systems for the benefit of patients, nurses, midwives, doctors, allied health professionals and other multidisciplinary team members, which would include work across the health community.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ people representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team.
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Current active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
- Masters Degree in health related subject.
- Management qualification. Post registration qualification
- Digital Clinical Safety Officer training or demonstrable equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Project management qualification (e.g. PRINCE2)
- Informatics/Information Management/Digital Leadership qualification/certification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing across a range of care settings
- Extensive experience in managing and delivering change successfully.
- Significant experience and understanding of the value that digital technology and information brings to improving quality of care, outcomes and efficiency.
- Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS landscape and policy and ability to interpret and implement in clinical practice.
- • Experience of ensuring that patients, staff and the public are engaged as an integral part of transformation programmes and that safety and experience are considered at every stage
- • Experience in management position at directorate level and above.
- • Experience in developing clinical teams.
- • Experience of championing diversity and inclusion and promoting actions to make improvements
- • An ability to apply clinical and technical understanding and knowledge to day to day clinical and operational practice
- • Experience of creating diverse and inclusive teams that are motivated and inspired to work together to achieve a common objective
- • Evidence of securing funding to support organisational initiatives.
- • Experience working with national programmes
Desirable criteria
- • Experience in leading the implementation of electronic health records
- • Experience of working with Epic
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Heather Caudle
- Job title
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 206 5646
- Additional information
Jenny Tattersall
Executive Assistant
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