Clinical Lead

at  NHS England

We are pleased to advertise the role of Clinical Lead at NHS England, and welcome applications from experienced digital nursing leaders who are passionate about transformation using digital technology and data.
The role of the Clinical Lead is to provide professional nursing leadership and expertise for Nursing and midwifery related to digital transformation. They will support providers and local systems to drive service improvement and work to ensure nurses and midwives have the knowledge and skills to practice and lead in a digitally enabled health and social care system, now and in the future and that practice is fully supported using digital technology and data science.
The post holder will have significant knowledge and experience in leading the nursing contribution to digital transformation across an organisation or system, ability to work with and engage a wide range of stakeholders and experience and skills to support programme and project delivery. The post holder will lead the development and implementation of initiatives in service of the ensure the professions can harness technology to evolve.
The Clinical Lead plays a pivotal role in supporting the digital agenda in partnership with the Deputy Chief Nursing Information Officer and the NHS England Chief Nurse office.
All roles within the Digital Clinical Informatics team are responsible for supporting the NHS England’s Digital Clinical Governance Framework, across the services, programmes, and projects delivered by the organisation. To meet this requirement, you will have experience of clinical governance, clinical safety, and clinical benefits, and ideally will have experience in supporting the delivery of new health and care technology.
The post holder may be required to lead or support other clinicians working across the organisation, ensuring programmes and services have access to appropriate clinical support and are successfully represented in externally facing project boards, clinical reference panels, or clinical advisory groups. There may also be the requirement to take part in an on-call rota in line with organisational policies.
You could be working on any of our exciting programmes, which are instrumental in bringing healthcare in the 21st century; providing safe, secure, reliable, and efficient routes for patients and citizens across the country to access their information, and to support the services they need.
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose 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.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
As Clinical Lead, the post holder will work as part of a dynamic national team in delivering an effective service across Health and Care sectors to implement policy and system transformation ensuring the professional collective voice of nursing, midwifery and care staff is at the centre of decision making of the organisation.
The post holder will act as operational lead a core digital nursing workstream that works to meet the CNIO vision:
To ensure nurses have the knowledge and skills to practice and lead in a digitally enabled health and care system
Practice is supported by the use of digital technology and data science
Please see the attached Job Description for further details on the role, responsibilities and person specification.
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Please refer the Job description for details