Clinical Informatics Specialist | NHS England

Posting date16 October 2024

Closing date15/11/2024 12:24:25

Salary£46,148 - £52,809 PA (exclusive of London Weighting)

LocationLeeds or London, LS1 4AP

CompanyNHS England

Job typePermanent

HoursFull Time

Reference15421018

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An opportunity has arisen for fourexperienced Clinical Informatics Specialists to join the Transformation Directorate's Digital Clinical Informatics Team.

2x Digital Urgent and Emergency Care-The candidate will join the NHS website clinical team to provide specialist clinical informatics support and clinical assurance across the suite of digital products, services and health information in the NHS website (NHS.UK) portfolio.Clinical teams in DUEC develop and maintain the clinical content and decision support for the NHS Website, NHS 111 online and NHS Pathways system

1x Live Services -The role would be working with the wider Live Service Clinical Team (LSCT) across a number of programmes in the live environment. Specifically supporting incident management for the programmes assigned to the Live Service Clinical Team (LSCT) and the Service Bridge team, when requested, in the management of Severity 1 & 2 Major Incidents. Live Services seek to provide high quality, safe, effective services, systems or solutions.

1x Primary care -Clinicians in the Digital Primary Care Team support several key developments to facilitate and enable delivery of new or enhanced technologies into General Practice, and the wider primary care landscape. Initiatives include new IT solutions for General Practice, Pharmacy First, Registration Management, digitisation of GP records and enhancing the way that electronic patient records are transferred in primary care.



We apply robust clinical governance, clinical oversight, and clinical risk management to ensure all programmes and services embed safety, effectiveness, and value. These are exciting roles with responsibility for providing support to senior clinical leadership across multiple programmes.

Main duties of the job



· You will be a UK registered clinician with proven credibility and the ability to command respect from clinical and non-clinical professionals

· Proven high-level experience of supporting delivery of complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment

· Evidence of ensuring that there is a clinical safety focus throughout the life cycle of programmes and services

· Ability to clearly communicate informatics-related work, including being able to explain the clinical requirements and safety processes to non-clinical stakeholders so that they understand them and can comply with safety and assurance processes

· Demonstrable experience of clinical governance frameworks with a strategic understanding of clinical risk and clinical safety,

· Demonstrable people and professional leadership skills that empower, support, and develop teams to achieve the high performance and enable team members to reach their full potential

· Currently registered and regulated health or social care professional with significant evidence of continued professional development

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.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

NHS England hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship through the Skilled Worker routeyou’llusually need to be paid the ‘standard’ salary rate of at least £38,700 per year, or the ‘going rate’ for your job, whichever is higher. You can find more information on theGovernment website. 

Our outstanding teams are passionate about technology and public service, making use of everyone’s skills to improve people’s lives. We collaborate to deliver world class tech and intelligence, so come and join us. We are committed to sustainability, diversity and inclusion; our people are at the heart of what we do.

Our work matters. You matter.

What we offer you:

· We're moving to a hybrid working approach which offers you an informal, flexible way of blending home and office working

· Flexible working opportunities - we value and respect the diversity of our employees, and applications from prospective candidates who require flexible working arrangements are welcomed; these include part-time hours, job sharing, flexible hours and part-remote set ups

· 27 days annual leave increasing to 33 days with service

· A generous pension

· NHS Discounts including shops, restaurants, gym, mobile phones, and insurance

· Employee benefit schemes including our Season Ticket Loan, Car Lease and Bike to Work scheme


This advert closes on Wednesday 30 Oct 2024

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