Clinical Informatics/Digital Specialist Health Visitor/ School Nurse
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS TrustLewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
The Clinical Informatics / Digital Specialist Health Visitor/ School Nurse works collaboratively with nursing, admin, IT staff, and key stakeholders to support and deliver outcome-based care for children and young people (CYP) and their families. This role involves promoting the effective use of data, information, knowledge, and technology to enhance health, health research, and healthcare delivery.
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The post holder will plan, implement and manage a portfolio of projects across the 0-19 teams under the supervision of a 0-19 Neighbourhood Lead.
The post holder will be responsible for nursing communication, and engagement, training and go-live support. The post holder will provide specialist clinical knowledge, advice and guidance relating to clinical informatics and digital transformation.
The post holder will hold a clinical caseload relevant to their profession.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Act as the key advocate of digital solutions within clinical settings within the 0-19 Public Health Pathways.
2. Act as a key liaison between clinical and non-clinical staff in respect to the development and implementation of clinical /digital IT systems/technological solutions, providing specialist clinical advice on nursing and patient care issues related to the project.
3. To promote awareness/engagement of digital/technological T systems, via a number of different forums including, but not limited to, Associate General Manager, 0-19 Neighbourhood Leads meetings.
4. To undertake regular engagement sessions within the clinical areas across the service, to support the implementation of new system/process.
5. Support staff in adopting new ways of working.
6. Work with the senior members of the 0-19 service, Children Looked After and external partners to prepare implement and evaluate transition plans, testing and rehearsal schedules during any implementation, upgrade, enhancement and re-procurement of the Trust’s clinical IT system for the 0-19 service.
7. Support the 0-19 workforce use of clinical IT/digital technological systems, maximising quality and efficiency, ensuring staff are aware and promote the adoption of IT enabled ways of working.
8. To work as a clinical practitioner within professional area
9. Work with training partners and other stakeholders to plan, develop test and sign off 0-19 service training plans.
10. Contribute to the development of operational procedures in the use of clinical IT systems for health visiting and school health service.
11. Contribute to the establishment and maintenance of effective communications across the Trust relating to the implementation and embedding of IT systems.
12. Support the development of a robust Champion/Users Networks in their roles within their own clinical
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.