Lead clinical informatician

Band 8a · Clinical informatician · 580 job evaluation points

Leads clinical informatics for a portfolio of clinical systems or a care setting, setting clinical design standards and leading a team of clinical informaticians.

Responsibilities

Set clinical design standards and principles for clinical systems across a portfolio.
Lead a team of clinical informaticians, setting priorities and supporting their professional development.
Advise programme boards and senior leaders on clinical risk, benefit, and priorities for clinical systems.
Lead clinical decisions on decision support, alerts, and structured data across services.
Build networks of clinical champions and lead clinical engagement for large-scale change.
Commission and lead evaluations and use the evidence to shape the roadmap.

Skills

Skill	Expected level	What this level means
Registered clinical practice in digitalThis reference	Practitioner (3)	You can: make sound clinical judgements 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 programme turn clinical needs and evidence into requirements champion safe adoption among clinical peers
Clinical system design and optimisationThis reference	Expert (4)	You can: set design principles and standards for clinical systems across the organisation lead optimisation programmes that measurably improve care and staff experience advise senior leaders on clinical system choices and their effect on care
Clinical risk managementThis reference	Practitioner (3)	You can: lead hazard identification and risk assessment for a product or change write and maintain hazard logs and clinical safety case reports agree risk controls with product teams and check that they work advise teams on applying clinical risk management standards
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	Practitioner (3)	You can: design evaluations and benefits plans for digital health products choose suitable measures for clinical outcomes, safety, and experience judge the strength of evidence and explain its limits
People managementThis reference	Practitioner (3)	You can: line manage a team, setting objectives and running appraisals support wellbeing and manage attendance, performance, and conduct plan the team's development and succession
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
Leadership and guidanceUK GDaD PCF	Practitioner (3)	You can: make decisions characterised by medium levels of risk and complexity and recommend decisions as risk and complexity increase build consensus between services or independent stakeholders identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them engage in varying types of feedback, choosing the right type at the appropriate time and ensuring the discussion and decision stick bring people together to form a motivated team and help create the right environment for a team to work in facilitate the best team makeup depending on the situation

Typical qualifications and experience

Current registration with a clinical professional body, with extensive clinical experience.
A postgraduate qualification in clinical or health informatics, or equivalent experience of leading clinical informatics work.

Band 8a outline

Knowledge: Expert knowledge of a discipline and its management.
Autonomy: Interprets organisational policy for a service; sets the team's direction.
Scope: A service area or a discipline across the organisation.
Leadership: Manages a team, or leads a discipline without line management.
Accountability: A service area, its staff, and its budget.

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	7	Highly developed specialist knowledge across the range of the specialism (master's level or equivalent).	196
Analytical and judgemental skills	5	Judgements on highly complex facts or situations needing analysis, interpretation, and comparison of options.	60
Planning and organisational skills	4	Plans a broad range of complex activities or strategies, adjusting them as needed.	42
Physical skills	2	Skills gained through practice, such as standard keyboard use or driving.	15
Responsibility for patient and client care	5	Develops programmes of care, provides specialist clinical technical services, or gives specialised advice on patient care.	30
Responsibility for policy and service development	4	Implements policy and develops policy or services for a service or several areas.	32
Responsibility for financial and physical resources	3	Authorises 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	2	Regularly does research, development, trials, or equipment and system testing as part of the job.	12
Freedom to act	5	Works within general policies, and in most cases decides how to interpret them.	45
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	1	Rare exposure, or occasional indirect exposure, to distressing circumstances.	5
Working conditions	2	Occasional unpleasant conditions, frequent travel or outdoor work, or near-continuous screen use on most days.	7
Total (Band 8a: 540 to 584)			580