Role Overview
An exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and inspirational nurse to join the Oxford Neonatal Unit as a Clinical Neonatal Informatics Lead Nurse (Band 7). You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team implementing and embedding all digital platforms for Neonatal Services. The Unit is one of the largest National Neonatal units delivering specialist care across the Thames Valley & Wessex Network. This role is part of a digital transformation with an electronic patient record system and offers a chance to contribute to innovative digital expertise and training across the Neonatal Unit.
Responsibilities
- Work with the Trust informatics team to deliver and support the implementation of the Electronic Patient Record on the Neonatal Unit and other digital platforms.
- Ensure the organisation has cost‑effective systems, information and technology services to provide excellent clinical care.
- Collaborate with NHS and social care partners to support clinical practice and the safe use of data, information, knowledge and technology.
Required qualifications
- Registered Nurse with a current NMC registration and a relevant degree qualification.
- Post‑graduation neonatal critical care qualification.
- Demonstrable understanding of informatics within the organisation.
Desirable qualifications
- Masters degree in Healthcare Informatics, risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience).
- Leadership qualification.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Successful influencer and negotiator.
- Confidence and self‑motivation.
- Credible in a multi‑professional environment.
- Energetic and motivated for the role.
- Ability to write papers at board level with effective presentation skills.
- Significant experience in clinical practice in an acute setting.
- Active involvement in at least one informatics intervention that improved care quality.
- Change‑management experience related to planning and delivering work in a clinical setting.
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders in a multi‑professional environment.
- Understanding of the local, regional and national commissioning environment and the standards expected by commissioners.
- Training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective.
- Ability to provide trust‑wide and divisional strategic oversight of the development of information systems to support high‑quality care and organisational effectiveness.
- Influencing skills to engage clinicians to implement and embed change and achieve successful outcomes.
- Ability to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales.
- Technical skills: competent use of ICT and a good understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice.
- Patient safety responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards.
- Previous Cerner Millennium experience and attainment of national Clinical Safety Officer training for clinicians.
- Understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies.
- Website design and SharePoint knowledge.
- UK professional registration.
Safety and Diversity
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has signed NHS England’s Sexual Safety Charter and pledges zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour. We are committed to the ten core principles of the charter and promote a safe, respectful working environment for all staff.
