Overview
Velindre University NHS Trust (VUNHST) is advancing its digital transformation agenda to enhance clinical practice, improve patient outcomes, and prepare for future service delivery at the new Velindre Cancer Centre and beyond. This is a strong clinical digital leadership role focused on embedding digital solutions across care settings, supporting staff to adopt new technologies, and ensuring systems are safe, effective, and aligned with modern healthcare standards. The Lead Digital Clinical Specialist will provide robust clinical leadership and be responsible for the operational delivery of this transformation, including the successful delivery of the Trust's electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) solution and the clinical digital infrastructure required for the Velindre Cancer Service.
The post holder will also develop, plan, and deliver training programmes for nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team to support the rollout and effective use of the Welsh Nursing Care Record (WNCR) and other clinical digital platforms.
Responsibilities
* Use specialist knowledge and experience, alongside digital skills, to provide clinical advice to the programme team and support the development, testing, implementation, configuration and ongoing optimisation of digital systems across all Trust sites.
* Assist the Chief Nursing Information Officer for Digital in informing and contributing to the pre-implementation and delivery plans for the system. This includes system demonstrations, promoting the benefits of digital systems, and working with the wider Digital, Data and Technology teams to ensure safe and timely implementation.
* Utilise nursing experience and knowledge to contribute to the design of new ways of working associated with ePMA and other digital systems to ensure maximum safety and quality.
* Support the Chief Nursing Information Officer by providing visible leadership and management to the wider Digital Clinical Specialist team.
* Have significant autonomy to organise own workload and act on initiative to deliver the delegated programme aims.
* Ensure full successful operational delivery of all clinical digital systems by working with managers, leaders and frontline staff.
* Support the digitalisation of the clinical records project.
* Line manage the Digital Clinical Specialist Team.
Equal Opportunity and Recruitment Information
Thank you for your interest in working for Velindre University NHS Trust, which is a committed equal opportunities employer. The Trust welcomes applications from people who share our vision; Velindre University NHS Trust will be recognised locally, nationally and internationally as a renowned organisation of excellence for patient and donor care, education and research. The Trust also hosts on behalf of the Welsh Government and NHS Wales, NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) and Health Technology Wales (HTW). Velindre University NHS Trust provides our employees with a favourable salary and reward / staff benefits & support package. For more information on our Trust Employee Reward and Benefits Package please visit the Velindre University NHS Trust website. Applications may be submitted in Welsh; applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than those submitted in English. The Trust reserves the right to close a vacancy early or withdraw an advertisement at any stage of the process. Posts may be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check and Professional Registration Check.
For more information on this vacancy please contact the recruiting manager, who will be pleased to discuss their employment opportunity with you. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
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