NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Main area

Medical Information & Technology

Grade

NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant

Contract

Secondment: 3 years

Hours

Part time - 6 hours per week (1.5 PAs)

Job ref

321-MS-CON-8246835

Site

Variable across sites

Town

Oxford

Salary

£113,565 - £ PAs - Pro Rata

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

08/10/2026 23:59

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit

Job overview

The purpose of Health Informatics is to:

Enable, promote, and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge, and technology to support and improve health and health-care delivery.

The role, therefore, is to ensure an organisation has the required cost-effective systems, information, and technology services to provide excellent clinical care to its patients, in conjunction with its partners throughout the wider health and social care community.

The Divisional Medical Informatics Lead (DMIL) post holder will provide divisional strategic direction and clinical leadership on the configuration, implementation, and adoption of the Trust's informatics solutions to ensure the delivery of high-quality health and care services.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide strategic level clinical advice and guidance, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure the appropriate and successful use of integrated knowledge and information systems.

They will also promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate information culture, as an enabler of change and quality improvement across the organisation.

Working for our organisation

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for full details on the job role.

• Deputise for the CCIO, as required, providing support and expertise in clinical informatics.
• Provide clinical focus to develop and promote information streams that track healthcare outcomes, aligning with the Trust's strategic aims.
• Ensuring safety standards are met within the respective Division and provide input to the organisation's digital clinical safety efforts. This includes but is not limited to DCB0129, DCB0160, and Data Protection Impact Assessments.
• Lead and support ongoing developments and projects related to electronic health information systems within the respective Division, ensuring alignment with patient care delivery.
• Collaborate with senior leaders to facilitate improvements and implementations of the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system, ensuring the needs of the clinical community are met by submitting requests for change.
• Attend Divisional Digital meetings, update the Top Ten Requests For Changes (RFCs), and present them in Clinical Advisory Group meetings.

Person specificationEducation and QualificationsEssential criteria

• Healthcare professional degree qualification.

Desirable criteria

• Management and/or leadership qualification (or relevant experience)
• Masters level degree in either informatics, business analysis or process re-engineering, or equivalent (or relevant experience)
• Master's degree in risk, governance, and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience)

ExperienceEssential criteria

• Experience in clinical practice
• Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting.
• Understanding of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 in reference to the DCB0129 and DCB0160 requirements of digital clinical safety.
• Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders within and outside the organisation and in a multi-professional environment.

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of the local, regional, and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners.
• Risk management: training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective.
• Active involvement in at least one major informatics intervention (such as deployment of an Electronic Patient Record system) to improve care...