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Chief Clinical Information Officer (Core Team) - EPR Programme

The closing date is 15 August 2025

This role is only open to applicants that currently work within an NHS Trust within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (HIOW ICS).

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Acute Care Collaborative, as part of the Integrated Care Board (ICB), is launching a major digital transformation initiative through a new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme. This role will serve as the lead clinical informatician, responsible for ensuring the EPR meets the needs of all four Acute Trusts in the region and aligns with the strategic goals of the ICB and Acute Provider Collaborative (APC).

This is a unique opportunity for a senior clinician to lead and champion digital transformation across the acute care system, fostering clinical engagement and leadership. The role involves both remote and cross-site working.

Please note: This is a single vacancy. To ensure broad accessibility, the role will be advertised through both general recruitment and medical consultant platforms. However, there is only one position available, and it is open to applicants from both routes, including Consultants.

Main duties of the job

• Alongside the Core CNIO, lead the clinical aspects of the procurement and implementation of the HIOW EPR programme.
• Chair and manage the Clinical and Operational Design Authority to ensure appropriate clinical leadership, ownership and direction is maintained.
• Work collaboratively with system partners to ensure dependencies are managed between the EPR programme and other programme of work ongoing within the four trusts and wider region.
• Interpret data from a variety of sources to offer recommendations on overall Programme and workstream delivery and service reconfiguration across the organisations.
• Act as a change agent, working with clinical leadership teams, in the procurement, operational and technical readiness, implementation planning, deployment and benefits measurement of the EPR .
• Ensure that the organisation adopts and adheres to professional standards relating to the EPR procurement and implementation, including national standards for the structure and content of the records and communications.
• Combine knowledge of patient care, informatics concepts, and change management to effectively address the information and knowledge needs of healthcare professionals and patients.

Please note: This is a single vacancy. To ensure broad accessibility, the role will be advertised through both general recruitment and medical consultant platforms. However, there is only one position available, and it is open to applicants from both routes, including Consultants.

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change:Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, searchHHFT Climate Actionor contactclimateaction@hhft.nhs.uk.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details including main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Relevant professional registration and holds a licence to practice (e.g. GMC/NMC)
• Evidence of continuing professional and personal development as a clinical leader
• Leadership/management qualification or higher Quality Governance Training
• Digital patient safety specialist

Experience and Knowledge

• Demonstrable track record of successful clinical leadership in a complex healthcare organisation
• Experience of overseeing and delivering Quality Improvement programmes within clinical services
• Experience of working with patients and the public to enhance and develop patient pathways
• Experience of effective collaborative working across the professions, the healthcare system and external stakeholders
• Experience of leading clinical digital transformational change
• Experience of the management of complex projects
• Experience of overseeing medical job planning, appraisals, and assessments

Skilla and Ability

• The ability to identify, define, promote, communicate and achieve clear organisational values and goals, effective management processes, and rational and timely decision taking
• Ability to draft complex documentation, for external scrutiny
• The ability to develop and manage initiatives within financial restraints and deliver to deadlines
• Ability to deliver presentations to large groups of people
• Able to lead complex and sometimes contentious change and transformation at scale

Other Specific Requirements

• Has personal and professional credibility and commands the respect of fellow clinicians
• Is supportive and approachable, inspiring confidence and encouraging potential
• Dynamic, passionate, open, participative and supportive leadership style
• Able to make decisions and take charge of events through a performance management approach
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Strong influencing skills with the ability to share development across the health and social care system

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

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