Chief Clinical Information Officer

We are excited to be recruiting a new CCIO to the Trust to clinically lead our digital priorities. Digital transformation will support our quadruple aim to improve health outcomes, deliver outstanding care, improve staff experience, and deliver value for money. Reporting to the board via the Chief Medical Officer, this role will lead the CXIO team and be a key member of the digital leadership triumvirate comprising the Director of Digital and AI, the CCIO and CNIO. Together this team will feed directly into the Trust Board lead for digital.

The role is predominately transformational, leading on the innovation and improvement of clinical services using informatics to achieve:

• Better patient experiences
• Digital empowerment of patients and citizens
• High quality integrated care with better health outcomes
• Improved staff satisfaction
• Financial sustainability

The role leads on new ways of working using digital and informatics technologies, transforming care delivery across all clinical environments and professions. It requires the post holder to act as an ambassador for the agenda across the system including acting as a spokesperson for the organisation. The post holder will lead provision of sound clinical advice and guidance into Trust digital programmes of work. They will work across the organisation to develop clinical digital leadership capacity in all divisions and services.

Main duties of the job include engaging with leaders and key stakeholders to ensure the appropriate, consistent and successful use of integrated knowledge and information systems, including:

• Electronic patient records
• Electronic prescribing and dispensing systems
• Patient engagement and access systems
• Decision support, workflow and productivity systems including artificial intelligence
• Business intelligence and analytics capability

Key activities of the role involve providing strong clinical leadership of the strategic development, design and implementation of informatics and information technology across the organisation to support better health and care, improved patient outcomes and experience, and better value and affordability. Overseeing the strategic leadership of the procurement, development, deployment, reengineering, optimisation and integration of clinical information systems to ensure they support clinicians in the delivery of safe and effective patient care. Ensuring that the clinical organisation is maximising the use of technology and shared information to provide high quality, safe and effective care for service users. Ensuring that delivery of technology appropriately balances the needs of:

• improving operational performance
• improving quality of care; reducing delays in the patient pathway
• meeting security and confidentiality needs
• enabling continuous improvement through monitoring and research to develop improved treatment methods
• extending patient choice and patient involvement

About us: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities: Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible. We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification Qualifications:

• Essential: Registration with a statutory body overseen by the Professional Standards Authority for Health and Social Care (PSA). Current good standing registration with relevant professional body, maintenance of all revalidation requirements as necessary. Compliance with the Seven Principles of Public Life. Management/Leadership Qualification or evidence of recent professional development or experience equivalent to post-doctorate level. Able to demonstrate competency across all 6 Domains of the Faculty of Clinical Informatics Core Competency Framework.
• Desirable: Post graduate degree in Leadership and Management. Clinical Safety Training. Project Management training i.e. Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent. Postgraduate Diploma or Degree in informatics/IT.

Experience:

• Essential: Senior clinical experience as a Consultant, Nurse Director/Assoc. Director, Principal in General Practice or Director/Head of AHP Services or equivalent, with a track record of inclusive clinical leadership and strategic vision. Senior management experience and competencies, including the development of business and workforce plans in line with service requirements, and performance management of staff. Wide ranging knowledge and experience of using information and analytics, and harnessing technology to drive service improvement, access to services and patient empowerment across health and social care. Experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements. Experience of agile project management methods.
• Desirable: Experience of developing and implementing information and data strategies.

Additional Criteria:

• Essential: Good communication, interpersonal and influencing skills. Team player and proven leadership qualities and experience. Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders 1:1 and collectively including patients and public.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.