Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Informatics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7/M&D Grade dependant on experience
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Until 31/10/26)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-TD-CTDCI-17645-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHSE Office
- Town
- Nationally
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Informatics Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7/M&D Grade dependant on experience
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
In this Clinical Informatics Specialist role, you will join a varied team of clinicians from different professions, working on products and services across NHS England's Transformation Directorate.
The post holder will work as part of a team delivering specialist clinical informatics support and clinical assurance across the suite of digital products, services and health information in the NHS website (NHS.UK) portfolio.
You will play a key role in shaping the safe delivery of national programmes to provide clear benefits for citizens and patients, and support clinicians to provide better care.
Our Clinical Informatics Specialist provide the framework and direction for our Clinical Informaticians working across programmes and involved in large scale change, as well as providing a key clinical voice to programme teams within Transformation Directorate.
Candidates are required to be registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge and trained Clinical Safety Officers (CSOs).
These roles can be appointed to agenda for change or medical and dental dependant on experience and membership to relevant professional body.
Main duties of the job
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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. |
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In this Clinical Informatics Specialist role, you will join a varied pool of clinicians from different professions, working on products and services across NHS England's Transformation Directorate. You will play a key role in shaping the safe delivery of national programmes to provide clear benefits for citizens and patients, and support clinicians to provide better care.
Our Clinical Informatics Specialist provide the framework and direction for our Clinical Informaticians working across programmes and involved in large scale change, as well as providing a key clinical voice to programme teams within Transformation Directorate.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge in a key area of practice, holding current professional clinical registration with an appropriate professional body.
- Educated to masters’ degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
Desirable criteria
- A trained and accredited clinical safety officer with current application in practice. If not, post holders will be expected to undertake training within 6 months of appointment
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks, and their requirements.
- Understanding of the sources and quality of evidence relating to clinical assessment and their application to practice.
- Understanding of clinical, benefit realisation, within the context of an organisation’s approach to benefits realisation management.
- Effective understanding and knowledge base of risk management methodology and its application in the clinical domain
- Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Works effectively with clinical governance frameworks and supports the identification, analysis and mitigation plans for clinical risks and issues related to systems and products.
- Supports Incident management and untoward event reporting and investigation.
- Supports a coordinated response to clinical safety events and incidents in live service within their sphere of expertise.
- Promotes understanding of the implications of citizen choice and preference options.
- Provides specialised clinical informatics advice and expertise to both clinical and non-clinical staff within projects regarding the delivery of health and care services.
- Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
- Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
- Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Belinda Coker
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Alternative contact:
Caron Taylor:
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