Chief (Nursing/AHP) Information Officer

Job overview

Digital Transformation is at the heart of the Trust's plans for delivering its Strategies. The Trust has set out its ambitions in Our strategy 2023-2033, that identifies six key themes that will allow The Trust to shape its digital agenda in the coming years.

Velindre has recognised that now clinical informatics is a clinical speciality in it’s own right. The need to ensure tools provided to our clinical workforce are well designed, create opportunities to reduce clinical burden but most importantly enhance patient safety and meet professional standards in terms of record keeping.

The exciting transformation agenda of digital tools and clinical decision support comes with clinical risk akin to that of other new therapeutic interventions and requires a robust clinical framework to manage the risk of patient harm and medico-legal implications for the organisation and clinical colleagues.

Specialist knowledge and expertise is required in clinical informatics and digital risk management to lead and inform the development of strategic plans for Digital, Data and Technology which impact across the whole of the Trust, to develop clinical risk management and clinical design policies, and protocols which impact on the care of patients/clients and to be responsible for the implementation of these strategies and policies throughout the organisation. The post requires Nursing or Allied Health Professional registration.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the translator and main point of contact for nursing, other healthcare professionals, management and Health Informatics professionals. The post holder will lead on nursing informatics work on the selection, development and deployment of digital solutions to ensure the effective and safe integration of technology into nursing practice.

• To represent the Trust at national level and will advise on national HI policies and strategies such as the Welsh Nursing Care Record (WNCR) ensuring that the professional nursing / AHP / strategy Policy & Trust Clinical Futures and Digital Strategy converge to form a coherent whole.
• To be recognised as a national expert, leading future Health Informatics development and presenting at national and international level.
• The post holder will provide visible clinical leadership to all healthcare professionals at all levels of the organisation that are responsible for the implementation of digital solutions. They will champion and promote innovation and stimulate a positive culture in the development of clinical informatics across the Trust and at a national level.
• The post holder will line manage the clinical digital nursing and AHP workforce as appointed e.g. EMPA

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac