Job overview
BHRUT services around 40% of this population and is looking to rapidly improve its digital capability to meet these health demands and transform patient and workforce experience.
This is an exceptional opportunity for clinicians to become part of this journey, leading digital transformation across the system.
How would you like to be one of BHRUT’s Digital Clinical Informatics Leads?
In conjunction with the Chief Transformation Officer, take responsibility and be accountable for the strategic direction of health informatics design, implementation and delivery for your allocated division. Engage and consult with appropriate stakeholders in designing, delivering and evaluating clinical informatics systems, including patients, carers, clinicians, technical and programme teams and best practice groups. Work closely with clinical informatics team members, including the Clinical Informatics Pharmacists, Informatics Midwife, and other clinical staff members financed by the wider budget within divisions.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Informatics Lead
North East London has a richly diverse population has a richly diverse population of around two million residents, with significant health inequalities and some of the fastest demographic growth in the country.
BHRUT services around 40% of this population and is looking to rapidly improve its digital capability to meet these health demands and transform patient and workforce experience.
This is an exceptional opportunity for clinicians to become part of this journey, leading digital transformation across the system.
How would you like to be one of BHRUT’s Digital Clinical Informatics Leads?
In conjunction with the Chief Transformation Officer, take responsibility and be accountable for the strategic direction of health informatics design, implementation and delivery for your allocated division. Engage and consult with appropriate stakeholders in designing, delivering and evaluating clinical informatics systems, including patients, carers, clinicians, technical and programme teams and best practice groups. Work closely with clinical informatics team members, including the Clinical Informatics Pharmacists, Informatics Midwife, and other clinical staff members financed by the wider budget within divisions.
As a Clinical Informatics Lead (CIL) you will lead the innovation and improvement of clinical services using informatics to digitally empower patients and citizens and create new financially sustainable digital ways of working to transform care delivery across all clinical environments and professions.
You will be an ambassador for the EPR digital transformation agenda and the voice of your division, ensuring that the clinical division is maximising the use of technology and shared information to provide high quality, safe and effective care for service users.
Commit to working to and encouraging within your division the highest standards of probity, integrity and governance and contribute to ensuring the division’s internal governance arrangements conform with best practice and statutory requirements. Ensure that all relevant and required IM&T policies are clinically appropriate. Be part of the Clinical Informatics Board (CIB) and a regular attendee with the Digital Governance and Safety Board (DGM).
You will lead on at least one digital workstream and build strong and collaborative relationships with key stakeholders at the regional and national level to understand the political and system-wide challenges in the interests of patients, citizens, and the division. Develop strong links with our key supplier partners.
Contribute to the development of informatics training programs for multi-professional teams and monitor the effectiveness of these programs.
Be part of the most significant digital transformation at BHRUT.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert, please ensure your application accurately reflects where you match them. For further information regarding the role please read the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Shortlisting Criteria
Essential criteria
1. Registered Medical/ Nursing/ Health Professional Practitioner – with current GMC/NMC/ Professional body Registration
2. Evidence of ongoing and relevant personal and professional development
3. A comprehensive understanding of the interpretation and application of NHS Digital Information and Technology Stratedgy, with a specific focus on open platforms and intereroperability as it realtes to clinical systems.
Desirable criteria
4. Master's degree in a relevant discipline, clinical leadership or management or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level.
5. A commitment to the highest standards if Digital Governance and customer service
6. Experience in professional leadership and operational management across a range of clinical specialities and care settings
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.