Very Senior Manager - (VSM) Circa £100,000
Interview date Week Commencing Monday 16 December 2024
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country, supporting people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders. We serve people from across the whole of the Northeast, North Cumbria and beyond. We are continuing our journey for our system’s plans for greater collaboration to develop, enhance, and improve clinical pathways resulting in better patient experience and outcomes through our strategic alliance and partnership with the Great North Healthcare Alliance (GNHA).
We acknowledge that we are living in very challenging times and our Trust has much work to do to improve our performance, culture and services for our patients and staff. We are committed to doing so and have made a significant start by responding quickly and positively to the findings of the CQC inspection. Our priority has been to improve culture focussed on listening and responding to our staff.
We now have a unique opportunity for an ambitious, highly motivated, experienced and skilled digital professional to join the Digital, Data and Technology Directorate as Deputy Chief Information Officer (DCIO). You will help create and implement our long-term clinically led digital strategy & investment framework for the Trust, digitising services, connecting them to support integration & through these foundations, enable service transformation.
Our staff oversee around 6,500 patient contacts every day, delivering high standards of healthcare from the following sites:
• Freeman Hospital
• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Health Innovation Neighbourhood (on the former Newcastle General Hospital and Centre for Ageing and Vitality site)
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service
• Cramlington Manor Walks
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle HospitalsandNewcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
With a commitment to both system and organisational excellence, you will build on optimizing the current Oracle Cerner Millenium Electronic Patient Record & related systems, working in partnership with organisational & clinical leadership teams, delivering a new Digital Strategy which is aligned to the Trust's overall strategy & priorities. Recognizing the impact of clinical expertise and aligning our digital work with our core business of healthcare delivery we are seeking a Deputy CIO that has clinical experience with current clinical credentials. As DCIO you will be the expert lead for the evolution of clinical & business information processes, ensuring high-quality provision and support for business-critical systems across the Trust. You will be comfortable working with a range of stakeholders across the Trust, and the wider regional health and social care economy.
As a progressive thinker and creative disrupter, focused on the need to deliver benefits to patients, the public, and care professionals, you will work cohesively & collaboratively with the Clinical Boards and Executive teams across the Trust to generate innovative digital solutions to support clinical processes, improving both staff & patient experience. You will be a strategic thinking so we can continue to modernise and improve our digital services, but also be able to execute change and get the job done. If this sounds like you & you have the skills, expertise & motivation to succeed in this career changing role, we would be delighted to hear from you.
The Deputy CIO will report directly to the Chief Information Officer and should have extensive digital and operational management experience in a healthcare environment, including leading staff and have familiarity of Oracle Health (Cerner) solutions. They will have been working at a senior level with experience engaging with senior leadership.
For further information about the job please review the recruitment pack under 'supporting documents' or 'documents to download'.
Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail.
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This post is subject to the rehabilitation of 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 Services (formerly known as the Criminal Records Bureau) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Due to the seniority of post, appropriate checks relevant to the Fit and Proper Persons Requirement will also be undertaken.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Dec 2024
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