Chief Clinical Informatics Officer - EPR

Job overview

Job Title - Chief Clinical Informatics Officer - EPR

Hours per week-10 Programmed Activities

Location: George Eliot Hospital

Job closing date: 06/12/24

Interview date: To be confirmed

Salary: Consultant Grade YM72 £105,504 -  £139,882 per annum

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly via Populo Agency - Home - IT Works Rec

Employment type: 0.8 WTE Permanent (Additional  PA's  available for clinical speciality at GEH as below)

Are you a clinician who is passionate about ensuring excellence in clinical record keeping and the opportunities that digital transformation offers? Are you ready for a new challenge and to play a central, leading role in the design, delivery and implementation of our new electronic patient record (EPR)?

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinician who is passionate about the opportunities within digital to clinically lead the engagement, design and delivery of our new EPR. This will be one of our biggest and most high-profile programmes of digital clinical transformation, so we are looking for someone with energy, passion and the resilience to manage the complexities and risks involved in this critical programme of work.

Crucially, the CCIO will be the bridge between the digital and clinical teams ensuring there is a strong clinical voice in all the workstreams and in our EPR Programme Board. They will lead all clinical engagement activities, encouraging clinical colleagues to take every opportunity to get involved throughout the lifetime of the project ultimately to ensure that the new EPR is safe, it underpins quality, improves the clinician and patient experience and drives efficient delivery of care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Trust (GEH) is procuring a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) which will  enable seamless, integrated care across the Trust and improve the safety, efficiency  and quality of care.  This will be a single shared instance of EPR across the three trusts of George Eliot Hospital (GEH), South Warwickshire University Foundation Trust (SWFT) and University Hospital Coventry and Warwickshire, with GEH and SWFT following on with a planned Go Live in 2026 after a UHCW Go Live in June 2024.

This post of an EPR Clinical Chief Information Officer (EPR CCIO) will provide the clinical leadership for the GEH EPR programme, in close collaboration with the CCIO at SWFT and within the above overarching single instance EPR governance across three trusts.  They will lead and promote clinical  engagement, support user centred design, support clinical safety activities and raise the profile of the programme to ultimately ensure that the new EPR is safe, it underpins  quality, improves the clinician and patient experience and drives efficient delivery of  care. Supported by the Trust’s CCIO team comprising of the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO), Two Deputy Chief Clinical Informatics Officers and Clinical Safety Officer (CSO), the EPR CCIO will work  closely with the multidisciplinary Clinical Digital Transformation Team, the Chief  Operating Officer and the Chief Medical Officer, to ensure that the EPR programme is  clinically owned and led. The post holder will be responsible for working collaboratively  with clinicians across the organisation to ensure patient and clinical involvement in the  planning, development, delivery, training and evaluation of the new EPR; whilst also  championing the use of digital as an enabler of change and quality improvement.

Specifically the post holder will:

Ensure the Trust’s EPR Programme is clinically owned and reflects clinical as  well as organisational priorities.

Lead and promote clinical engagement with and adoption of the EPR

Support user centred design, delivery of training and implementation  to clinical teams

Driving continuous clinical process improvement in the use of digital  technology

Develop information that supports and develops clinical practice

Develop clinical practice that makes the most of digital technology

The post will be line managed jointly by Chief Operating Officer / Chief Medical Officer.

If you would like to arrange a time discuss the position, please contact Darren Mills, Director, Populo Consulting at [email protected]