Clinical Lead inLeeds/London inLeeds/London PUBLISHED
MON 4 NOV 2024
NHS England r3l7347B
In this dynamic role, you will contribute to implementing policies and system transformations across health and care sectors, promoting the use of digital technology to improve care delivery. The Clinical Lead will drive a core digital nursing workstream aimed at empowering nurses with the skills necessary for effective practice in a digitally enabled environment, ensuring that technology and data science underlie healthcare practices for the benefit of patients and citizens.
In this Clinical Lead 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 Leads 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.
The post holder(s) will support internal clinical safety and assurance activities, and provide oversight of the clinical aspects of programmes and projects within Transformation Directorate, deputising for the Senior Clinical Lead across a range of functions.
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.
About us
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
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