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Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
18 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Extensive and up to date knowledge of clinical, administrative and/or operational workflows and processes within a community environment
- Experience
Extensive clinical and managerial knowledge of one or more specific area, including knowledge of relevant operational policies and procedures
- Experience
Previous NHS experience healthcare leadership
- Experience
Experienced operational management including, service delivery against specifications
- Experience
A track record of meeting challenging objectives in tight timeframes
- Experience
Comprehensive knowledge of NHS policy and strategy and the clinical agendas with an ability to translate into local action.
- Key Attributes
Flexibility to meet the needs of the programme (i.e. working weekends or nights during project go-live and cutover periods as required)
- Key Attributes
Able to work across all CLCH sites and to be flexible to meet the needs of the role
- Skills & Knowledge
Leadership experience, with the ability to lead, manage and motivate staff into achieving a common goal
- Skills & Knowledge
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate fluently with staff at all levels in the organisation, including clinical staff, managerial staff and senior/board level executives, as well as with external suppliers
- Skills & Knowledge
Able to cope with unpredictable and intense situations and work under significant pressure to achieve deadlines whilst managing frequent interruptions
- Skills & Knowledge
Ability to resolve problems and conflicts by making informed decisions based on complex facts from a range of sources as well as the ability to manage challenging situations with staff, patients and visitors such as aggression, grief, anger etc.
- Skills & Knowledge
Drive to achieve high quality work with significant attention to detail.
- Education/Qualification
Clinical professional qualification and registration
- Education/Qualification
Undergraduate degree in a clinical or clinical informatics subject
- Education/Qualification
Evidence of on- going professional development
- Education/Qualification
Masters or equivalent combination of masters level education, specialist qualifications and experience
- Education/Qualification
Qualified Clinical Safety Officer or the willingness to undertake training
Desirable
11 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Proven track record of managing clinical elements of IT/Information projects
- Experience
Comprehensive knowledge of Information Governance, Standard Operating Procedures and other governance, national and professional standards of practice or other regulations
- Experience
Experience of delivering benefits in a healthcare setting through the implementation and deployment of clinical systems, informatics and associated technology
- Experience
Experience of working at a strategic level to drive improved clinical processes
- Experience
Experience of identifying, reporting and managing clinical risk in current process and acting to improve processes
- Skills & Knowledge
Exceptional organisational and strategic level logistics planning skills
- Skills & Knowledge
Exceptional analytical skills
- Skills & Knowledge
Ability to impart complex information and knowledge and/or present to others in a clear and concise manner
- Skills & Knowledge
Familiarity of Project management and/or change leadership
- Education/Qualification
Postgraduate Informatics/IT Qualification/ health leadership Qualification.
- Education/Qualification
Experience of digital transformation Projects within the NHS
Job overview
Join Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) in one of two full-time substantive Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer (ACCIO) roles and help shape the future of digitally enabled healthcare.
Working closely with the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), Digital Clinical Safety Officer, Deputy Divisional Directors and multidisciplinary teams, you will play a key role in delivering safe, effective and innovative digital transformation across the Trust. You will support the implementation and optimisation of digital healthcare technologies, ensuring they enhance patient care, improve staff experience and meet national NHS digital standards.
This is an exciting opportunity for clinically registered professionals who are passionate about improving healthcare through digital innovation, collaboration and clinical leadership. You will work alongside your allocated division while contributing to organisation-wide digital programmes, helping to embed technology that supports high-quality, integrated and person-centred care.
If you are motivated by improving outcomes for patients, empowering colleagues to embrace digital change and influencing the future of healthcare delivery, we would welcome your application.
The role requires working across multiple sites within the Trust's geography.
Main duties of the job
As an Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer, you will:
- Provide clinical leadership to support the delivery of the Trust's digital strategy and digital transformation programmes.
- Work collaboratively with clinical, operational, digital and transformation teams to implement and optimise digital healthcare systems.
- Promote the safe, effective and innovative use of technology to improve patient care, staff experience and service efficiency.
- Lead and support divisional digital transformation initiatives aligned with Trust and Integrated Care System priorities.
- Champion clinical engagement, ensuring digital solutions meet the needs of patients, carers and multidisciplinary teams.
- Identify, evaluate and promote digital innovations that improve quality, productivity and outcomes.
- Support compliance with NHS digital clinical safety standards, including monitoring and managing digital clinical risk.
- Provide leadership, advice and support for designated projects, including the effective use of people and resources where appropriate.
- Contribute to teaching, learning, research, governance and the continuous development of digital clinical practice across the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicants are expected to present clear and relevant evidence of the competencies and responsibilities detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification, together with a demonstrated commitment to the Trust’s values of Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment.
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.
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This advert is for Associate Chief Clinical Information Officer with Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Officer (discipline unspecified) role. The advertised salary is £66,274 - £73,496 per annum, inclusive of HCAS. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Sep 2026.
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