Senior clinical informatician

Band 7 · Clinical informatician · 525 job evaluation points

Leads the clinical input to a major clinical system, product, or program, giving specialized advice on how digital services affect patient care and safety.

Responsibilities

Lead clinical design for a major clinical system or product, setting content and configuration standards.
Give specialized advice to product teams on clinical workflows, decision support, and safety.
Work with the clinical safety officer to identify hazards, agree controls, and provide clinical evidence for safety cases.
Lead clinical engagement and adoption across services, championing safe use among clinical peers.
Plan and carry out evaluations and clinical audits of system use and benefits.
Mentor clinical informatics specialists and clinicians new to digital work.

Skills

Skill	Expected level	What this level means
Registered clinical practice in digitalThis reference	Practitioner (3)	You can: make sound clinical judgments about the effect of digital services on care challenge unsafe practice, in digital or clinical settings, with confidence support other clinicians to apply their professional standards to digital work
Clinical leadership in digitalThis reference	Practitioner (3)	You can: lead clinical engagement for a product or program turn clinical needs and evidence into requirements champion safe adoption among clinical peers
Clinical system design and optimizationThis reference	Practitioner (3)	You can: lead the clinical design of system configuration, forms, order sets, and decision support use data and user feedback to find and fix workflow problems balance clinical need, safety, usability, and system constraints
Clinical risk managementThis reference	Working (2)	You can: take part in hazard workshops and contribute to a hazard log follow the clinical risk management process for your work provide evidence for a clinical safety case, such as test results
Clinical terminology and classificationThis reference	Practitioner (3)	You can: design data models and reference sets using clinical terminologies map between terminologies and classifications, and explain the limits of a mapping advise teams on terminology use in products and analytics
Human factors and usability in clinical systemsThis reference	Practitioner (3)	You can: plan and run human factors assessments of clinical systems turn findings into design changes and clinical safety controls assess alert burden and the risk of workarounds
Digital health evaluation and benefitsThis reference	Working (2)	You can: collect baseline and follow-up data for an evaluation carry out clinical audits of system use summarize evaluation findings for colleagues
Information governance and data protectionThis reference	Working (2)	You can: apply data protection principles to your work contribute to data protection impact assessments handle information requests and records correctly
Stakeholder relationship managementUK GDaD PCF	Practitioner (3)	You can: work with the team to develop and maintain an understanding of stakeholders work with the team to develop and implement stakeholder communications strategies identify and resolve issues, influence stakeholders and manage relationships effectively build long-term strategic relationships and communicate clearly and regularly with stakeholders
Communicating informationUK GDaD PCF	Practitioner (3)	You can: work collaboratively in a group and build relationships with others identify issues through Agile 'health checks' and work with others to address them manage stakeholder expectations be flexible and capable of proactive and reactive communication host or moderate difficult discussions within the team or with senior stakeholders

Typical qualifications and experience

Current registration with a clinical professional body, with substantial clinical experience.
A postgraduate qualification in clinical or health informatics, or equivalent experience.

Band 7 outline

Knowledge: Highly developed specialist knowledge, typically to master's level or equivalent experience.
Autonomy: Works to organizational policy; decides how results are achieved; is the expert others consult.
Scope: Several products or services, or a specialist function.
Leadership: Leads a team or a professional practice area.
Accountability: Delivery of a service or specialist function, and its budget if held.

Job evaluation (illustrative)

Factor	Level	Level summary	Points
Communication and relationship skills	5	Gives highly complex or contentious information needing developed persuasion and negotiation, presents to large groups, or communicates where there are significant barriers to acceptance.	45
Knowledge, training, and experience	6	Specialist knowledge across the range of the specialism (postgraduate diploma level or equivalent).	156
Analytical and judgmental skills	4	Judgments on complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options.	42
Planning and organizational skills	4	Plans a broad range of complex activities or strategies, adjusting them as needed.	42
Physical skills	3	Developed skills needing speed or accuracy, such as advanced keyboard use.	27
Responsibility for patient and client care	5	Develops programs of care, provides specialist clinical technical services, or gives specialized advice on patient care.	30
Responsibility for policy and service development	3	Implements policies for own area and proposes changes that affect other areas.	21
Responsibility for financial and physical resources	3	Authorizes payments, buys some assets or supplies, monitors or holds a delegated budget, or maintains assets.	21
Responsibility for people	3	Manages a group of staff day to day, teaches core or specialist training, or gives core HR advice.	21
Responsibility for information resources	5	Designs and develops major information systems, or runs information systems for several services as the main duty.	34
Responsibility for research and development	3	Carries out research or development within formal programs as a main duty.	21
Freedom to act	4	Results are defined, but the job holder decides how to achieve them, within broad policy.	32
Physical effort	1	Sitting, standing, and walking, with little physical effort.	3
Mental effort	3	Frequent concentration on unpredictable work, or occasional prolonged concentration.	12
Emotional effort	2	Occasional exposure, or frequent indirect exposure, to distressing circumstances.	11
Working conditions	2	Occasional unpleasant conditions, frequent travel or outdoor work, or near-continuous screen use on most days.	7
Total (Band 7: 466 to 539)			525

Patient care is scored at level 5 for specialized advice on patient care. Research is level 3 because evaluation and clinical audit of systems are a main part of the job.