Band 8d Associate Director of Informatics

Job summary

Over the past three years, BHRUT has made significant progress in its digital development with the support of a number of joint roles with NELFT, including a shared Director of Health Informatics. In that period we have invested over £30m in digital: agile working is now supported by enhanced end use devices, the servers and data centre are more robust and secure and the last part of the infrastructure - the network - is ready for implementation over the next two years. We have also started to transform the way we use digital, with significant developments with System C led by our new and expanded clinical informatics teams.

Like all support services, digital needs to be shaped by the organisations it supports and it now needs to focus on making progress with the shared electronic patient record system with Barts Health. Accordingly, we will be separating the joint roles with NELFT so that each Trust has its own lead director for digital, supported by a dedicated team.

In BHRUT, this will consist of a Band 9 Director of Informatics supported by three Band 8d assistant director roles for applications, infrastructure and data warehouse and integration roles. These changes do not affect business intelligence or clinical informatics roles which are already dedicated to BHRUT.

Main duties of the job

This a senior leadership post in IM&T to deliver safe, effective, responsive and well-led service provision of application ecosystem, successful delivery of digital programs and information governance supported by relevant teams.

Act as the primary contact for clinical systems and oversee clinical systems support across BHRUT, ensuring the continuous availability maintenance and smooth running of installed systems. Ensure IM&T Clinical Systems teams support the development and implementation of the Trust's IM&T Strategic Delivery Plan, working alongside the EPR Programme team, and therefore ensuring the service is fully aligned to, and support for delivery of Trust transformational programmes. The role has three key purposes: . Support the current suite of applications developed under the BHRUT "Digitise" phase. Work closely with the EPR Programme team to support a successful implementation in 2025. Support medical records and information governance.

About us

We provide care for the residents of three diverse London boroughs. Most of our 7,800 permanent staff live in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. We also provide healthcare services to people in south west Essex, and specialist neurosciences services to the whole of the county.

Our services include all the major specialties of large acute hospitals and we operate from two main sites - King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023. We also provide outpatient services at Brentwood Community Hospital, Barking Community Hospital, Loxford Polyclinic, and Harold Wood Polyclinic.

We're pleased to be leading the way in reducing the time our patients wait to get the treatment they need. The Elective Surgical Hub at King George Hospital is one of eight to be accredited as part of a national scheme; the Care Quality Commission has raised the ratings forurgent and emergency careat Queen's and King George hospitals; anddata released by NHS Englandshowed that the Trust was the most improved in 2023 for reducing waits for emergency care.

We are particularly proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre; Radiotherapy Centre; Hyper Acute Stroke Unit; and dedicated breast care service at King George Hospital. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.