# Clinical Informaticist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Colchester General Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13T15:50:55.912Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Essex/IpswichColchester/East_Suffolk_North_Essex_NHS_Foundation_Trust/ICT_Clinical_Systems/ICT_Clinical_Systems-v8365013
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8365013?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.esneft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you passionate about improving patient care through digital innovation?

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking motivated and forward-thinking clinicians to join our Clinical Informatics Team.

This is an exciting opportunity for registered nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, healthcare scientists and social workers who want to influence how digital technology transforms healthcare delivery. Working at the intersection of clinical practice, patient safety and digital transformation, you will play a key role in shaping the ongoing development and optimisation of our Epic Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and wider clinical systems.

As an organisation, ESNEFT has made a significant investment in digital transformation through Epic. We are now focused on optimisation, standardisation and continuous improvement. This role provides an opportunity to use your clinical expertise to influence how digital systems evolve, improve the experience of patients and staff, and support safer, more effective care across the Trust.

Please note you will be required to complete a sphinx text for assessment.

### Main duties of the job

We are looking for individuals who are passionate about improving services, confident working with a wide range of stakeholders and excited by the opportunities digital technology brings to healthcare. You will be clinically credible, able to build relationships across professional boundaries and capable of influencing change through collaboration and engagement.

As a Clinical Informaticist, you will act as the bridge between frontline clinical practice and digital services, helping to ensure that technology supports safe, effective and efficient care. You will work alongside clinicians, operational teams, digital specialists and senior leaders to redesign workflows, improve user experience, support digital clinical safety and optimise the use of clinical systems across the Trust.

In return, you will join a supportive and innovative team committed to developing the next generation of clinical informatics leaders. You will have access to professional development opportunities, exposure to strategic digital programmes and the chance to make a tangible difference to healthcare delivery at scale.

If you are ready to use your clinical expertise to help shape the future of healthcare at ESNEFT, we would love to hear from you.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- - Demonstrates an understanding of change management
- - Use of IT systems (e.g. Word , Excel, Outlook) – standard keyboard skills
- - Understanding of the NHS and current agenda

**Desirable**

- - NHS IT systems
- - Financial procedures including budgetary management

### Experience

**Essential**

- Proven experience of working in a leadership role
- Experience managing / leading a team.
- Experience of facilitating change in practice to improve services.

**Desirable**

- Project management/co-ordination
- Responsibility for a budget

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- - Relevant degree or equivalent qualification or significant experience of working at degree level in Clinical area
- - Management /leadership qualification or equivalent knowledge at post graduate level
- - Evidence of continued professional development

**Desirable**

- Project management qualification.

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 232.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10692082)
- [staff networks (pdf, 252.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2724)
- [dbs information (pdf, 272.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1262)
- [esneft values and behaviours (pdf, 74.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2146)
- [value of joining nhs pension (pdf, 125.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2404)

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