Digital Clinical Specialist

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Job overview

This role demands a dynamic leader who is passionate about digital health care adoption, and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation. Join us in shaping the future of healthcare through digital excellence at UHBW.

Main duties of the job

This role is pivotal in delivering UHBW's Digital strategy, transforming digital concepts into clinically led realities that prioritise user experience and improve clinical outcomes. As UHBW and NBT unite to form Bristol’s hospital group, this is an exciting time to join the digital services team.

The Digital Clinical Specialist will ensure the safe and efficient design and implementation of digital solutions that enhance care quality and outcomes. They will provide clinical informatics advice, collaborating with stakeholders to involve patients and clinicians in system planning, development, and evaluation.

The Digital Clinical Specialist will play a crucial role in implementing the Trust’s Digital Strategy, fostering clinical adoption of technology, and supporting the development of the Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

The role demands flexibility and adaptability, promoting continuous improvements and a digital culture within the organisation. The post holder will champion new digital solutions and business processes, ensuring sustainable digital practices and a digitally skilled workforce.

Working for our organisation

Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities and person specification please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Aptitudes

• Enthusiastic about Digital Healthcare
• Excellent communication skills
• Develops themselves and the team with a commitment to develop and educate clinical colleagues.
• A commitment to providing high quality service and putting patients at the centre of what they do
• Highly organised and able to balance / prioritise service delivery requirements and project delivery milestones
• Ability to appreciate the needs of others and lead with empathy and compassion

Knowledge and Experience

• Understanding of clinical systems and their use within an acute hospital environment
• Knowledge of change process methodologies
• Experience of the development and delivery of clinical education and training
• Understanding of Health Policy and how IT can be used to improve operational and clinical processes for clinical colleagues including doctors, nursing, midwifery and AHPs
• Experience of delivering practice changes or quality improvement projects
• Experienced healthcare practitioner with experience of leading teams or people
• Experience of working collaboratively with multi-professional teams and service users

• Experience of patient safety and experience of clinical risk management including an awareness of patient safety risks and the pitfalls of implementing clinical IT systems
• Understanding of NHS national digital priorities and standards

Skills and Abilities

• Able to deal with difficult issues sensitively and diplomatically
• Detailed understanding of professional and clinical standards and policies
• Highly computer literate
• Advanced communication skills verbal/written including excellent presentation and report writing
• Ability to engage, motivate colleagues and other stakeholders as well as leading colleagues and able to gain trust and confidence of others
• Excellent persuasion and negotiating skills with the ability to deal effectively with challenging situations and challenging people
• Able to analyse and interpret complex information and present to non-experts in an understandable way
• Ability to present to large mixed audiences in an engaging manner.
• A good self-starter, able to work autonomously

Qualifications and Training

• Clinician with current Registration e.g. NMC, GMC, HCPC
• Evidence of commitment to continuous learning and application in practice

• Post Registration qualification / Post Graduate diploma and training
• Accredited Clinical Safety Officer or willing to work towards attaining this qualification
• Digital health qualification/ training
• Change management/ transformation qualification
• Project Management qualification

• As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
• The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
• UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
• To comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016 all applicants must be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed at Interview.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.

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