# Clinical Informatics Specialist **Company**: NHS England **Location**: Leeds, London, or Exeter **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: Fixed term **Salary**: £49387.00 to £56515.00 **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/M9990-26-0800?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_a1d18f45-7d9 ## Description In this Clinical Informatics Specialist role, you will join a varied team of clinicians from different professions, working on products and services across NHS England's Transformation Directorate. The post holder will work as part of a team delivering specialist clinical informatics support and clinical assurance across the suite of digital products, services and health information in the NHS App portfolio. You will play a key role in shaping the safe delivery of national programmes to provide clear benefits for citizens and patients, and support clinicians to provide better care. Our Clinical Informatics Specialist provide the framework and direction for our Clinical Informaticians working across programmes and involved in large scale change, as well as providing a key clinical voice to programme teams within Transformation Directorate. Candidates are required to be registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge and trained Clinical Safety Officers (CSOs). These roles can be appointed to agenda for change on experience and membership to relevant professional body. **Main duties of the job** In this role, you will be required to have regular contact with internal and external stakeholders and will often need to engage with them over sensitive, complex and contentious issues. You will also be expected to lead and support other clinicians across the organisation, ensuring programmes and services have access to appropriate clinical support and are represented in externally facing Programme Boards, Clinical Reference Panels or Clinical Advisory Groups. You will join a multi-professional team of experienced clinicians with a variety of clinical backgrounds, all of whom have chosen informatics as a specialist area of expertise. You will be joining the team at an exciting time, as the role of clinical informaticians becomes more important than ever before in supporting the safe and effective use of technology across health and social care services, for the benefit of patients and citizens. **Job responsibilities** - Works effectively with clinical governance frameworks and supports the identification, analysis and mitigation plans for clinical risks and issues related to systems and products. - Supports Incident management and untoward event reporting and investigation. - Supports a coordinated response to clinical safety events and incidents in live service within their sphere of expertise. - Promotes understanding of the implications of citizen choice and preference options. - Provides specialised clinical informatics advice and expertise to both clinical and non-clinical staff within projects regarding the delivery of health and care services. - Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources. **Person Specification** - Registered and regulated health or care professional with high level specialist knowledge in a key area of practice, holding current professional clinical registration with an appropriate professional body. - Educated to masters' degree level or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in specialist area. - Understanding of NHS quality improvement frameworks, NHS regulatory and compliance frameworks, and their requirements. - Understanding of the sources and quality of evidence relating to clinical assessment and their application to practice. - Effective understanding and knowledge base of risk management methodology and its application in the clinical domain. - Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level. **Benefits** - Competitive salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year - Agenda for Change pay scheme - Band 7 position **Additional Information** - 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. ## Skills ### Required - clinical informatics - clinical safety - risk management - clinical governance - benefits realisation ### Nice to have - trained Clinical Safety Officer - masters' degree level --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/M9990-26-0800?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)