Job summary
- Main area
- Digital
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (FTC)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 334-NCL-7397721-TA
- Employer
- South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- IOPPN
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 Per Annum inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Digital Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 7
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
They will take the lead in working alongside teams to help them to understand how LUCI could augment their current work and also support new ways of working, design, co-ordinate and deliver training, leading programmes such as ‘train the trainer’ to ensure sustainability. They will provide input, using their clinical expertise, into the development of new platforms and ensure that the clinical end-user is held in mind throughout the design process.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in conjunction with the BCS membership.
Main duties of the job
Contribute as a specialist clinical advocate and representative in the development and implementation of projects within the clinical informatics service. Providing direct support during periods of system implementation within the clinical environment.
· Support the risk and governance processes for the Clinical Informatics Service in conjunction with the Clinical Leads.
· Validate clinical data to ensure that all data outputs accurately represent valid clinical constructs.
· Maintain close links with the Digital and Quality Improvement teams to ensure early identification of quality improvement opportunities, consistently ensuring best practice and safety.
· Work directly with clinical departments and the Clinical Governance Facilitators in managing and mitigating clinical risks identified in relation to our digital output.
· Provide advice, information and guidance in relation to health informatics to enhance the quality of care and developments in clinical practice.
· Represent the needs of both patients and clinical staff within the development of clinical informatics tools.
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· Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Working for our organisation
The CIS is responsible for the development and maintenance of the platform LUCI (locating useful clinical information), a data platform that uses new analytics techniques to extract value from data and summarise it back to clinicians to support direct clinical care and service design and delivery. LUCI uses interactive visualisation to feedback data to clinicians in ways that maximise their ability to quickly extract relevant insights and interact with the data.
IOPPN (headquarters)
Our Trust headquarters is located at Denmark Hill less than 5 minutes from the train station (zone 2) and is within walking distance from the beautiful green spaces of Ruskin park and the vibrant high-street that offers great shopping opportunities and with a wide range restaurants.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
At South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, we believe in providing excellent care which is delivered with pride and compassion. Everything we do is to improve the lives of the people and communities we serve and to promote mental health and wellbeing for all.
The South London & Maudsley (SLaM) Clinical Informatics Service (CIS) has been set up to provide informatics capability to support clinical decision making in direct care. Our aim is to enable SLaM staff to use clinical data to inform their decision making at individual patient and service levels to improve the quality and equity of the care delivered. Our work will be directed by the questions identified as important by clinicians and our tools developed iteratively with the teams who will be using them in their routine practice, translating the unique data resources and clinical informatics research and expertise within the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) to build a learning health system that solves practical problems within the trust.
The CIS is responsible for the development and maintenance of the platform LUCI (locating useful clinical information), a data platform that uses new analytics techniques to extract value from data and summarise it back to clinicians to support direct clinical care and service design and delivery. LUCI uses interactive visualisation to feedback data to clinicians in ways that maximise their ability to quickly extract relevant insights and interact with the data.
The CIS is currently funded on a fixed-term grant to develop a fully-operational service in the trust. There has been to date some initial design and development work to create a user-friendly platform which is currently being rolled out in specific community teams.
The postholder will be seconded into the Clinical Informatics Service and will support our ongoing process of implementation and iteration of the platform to ensure it is adapted for clinical needs and workflows. They will take the lead in working alongside teams to help them to understand how LUCI could augment their current work and also support new ways of working, design, co-ordinate and deliver training, leading programmes such as ‘train the trainer’ to ensure sustainability. They will provide input, using their clinical expertise, into the development of new platforms and ensure that the clinical end-user is held in mind throughout the design process.They will work in partnership with senior clinical colleagues to evaluate current clinical workflows and understand the opportunities for new ways of working that account for new data tools. They will also act as an advocate for clinical informatics and be vital to any work around education of clinicians about data.
The post-holder does not need to be conversant with coding languages, and a good understanding of clinical data and clinical workflows is a much more important attribute as they will be working alongside developers. There will be a full induction to ensure that the post-holder has a good understanding of the technical capabilities of LUCI and the clinical processes that it was designed to support.. The post will be supervised by the clinical leads of the service and will be supported by a team including informaticians, developers, academics and clinicians.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Current clinical professional registration.
- Post graduate degree or equivalent experience.
Desirable criteria
- A recognized teaching qualification.
- Formal and informal teaching experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of rolling out digital in a healthcare or similar setting and leading implementation projects to successful completion
- Maintains a competent level of skills within the clinical environment.
- Substantial post registration experience within a relevant setting.
- Maintains own professional development.
- Supervision /mentoring skills.
- Accommodates a number of perspectives and uses these to analyse, compare and interpret information before reaching a judgement, and acting on any decisions made.
- Works alongside technical and academic colleagues, translating technical specifications into language understandable to clinicians and vice-versa.
- Ability to work unsupervised, using own initiative to proactively identify opportunities and threats to implementation and bring these to the team to manage
Desirable criteria
- Ensuring appropriate effective communication on service issues to a wide range of audience, both internally and externally at all levels within the Trust and the any partner or supplier.
- Ability to create networks with peers and mangers across the trust.
- Excellent standard of written English
- The ability to gather and interpret data
Knowledge/Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of the National Digital Agenda.
- Able to motivate, using strong negotiating and diplomacy skills.
- Evidence of good communication skills on application form.
- Able to work cross sites and community settings.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders with very different knowledge-bases, using a range of written and verbal formats.
- Deals effectively with problems within well-defined procedures and guidelines.
- Contribute to IT training programmes for staff across the Trust which are ongoing, being responsive to any changes/development within the organisation.
- Facilitates multi-professional teaching in line with individual and service needs with respect to IT.
- Participates in identifying the financial and physical resources required during digital implementation in clinical areas.
- Provides advice and support to clinical staff across the trust including the provision of supervision.
- Understands and works within codes of conduct and practice.
- Able to use own initiative to coordinate/facilitate implementation in response to individuals/ managers and service needs.
- Displays exemplary standards of personal and professional behaviour and integrity at all times.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- David Codling
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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