Overview
Contract Type: 0
Salary: £51657 – £58785
Partner Org: Royal Surrey County Hospital
Allied Health Professional Information Officer
(Nursing/Midwifery background also considered)
Do you have a passion for making a difference to the lives of others? Are you able to engage and work with others to deliver sustainable changes in clinical processes with digital as an enabler? Do you want to be part of an exciting Clinical Informatics team that will transform the way in which health and care is delivered, not just within the walls of a hospital, but reaching across health and care providers?
We are looking for a highly motivated individual who brings both passion and experience in understanding how to deliver successful digital change in a complex environment. This role will need experience in understanding how Millennium EPR works and how to work with clinical and operational teams to navigate the best way to improve how they do their work.
We work as part of a collaborative team where everyone has a voice and is encouraged to continuously improve our approach to change.
Interviews are planned for week commencing 24 August 2026. Please note that there may be initial telephone interviews.
Main duties of the job
As an AHP Information Officer, you will play a vital part in the delivery of our Millennium adoption, optimisation and transformation journey, providing clinical leadership to people and projects across the Trust. We’re particularly keen to hear from Allied Health Professionals who understand the unique workflows, pressures and opportunities within AHP services, and who can champion the AHP voice as we shape how digital tools support care.
The Nursing, Midwifery or AHP Information Officer (IO) will play a key role in the adoption and development of the Electronic Patient Record (ePR) Millennium, across the Trust and wider Surrey Region. The post holder will work within the Clinical Informatics team across multiple areas with either a planned or unplanned care setting focus providing a pivotal integrated view of pathways across those settings. The IO will provide practical support to the clinical teams to take forward improvements and new ways of working introduced through Millennium EPR. To enable successful service transition, drive operational change and help realise the qualitative and quantitative benefits available with use of integrated clinical systems.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme alongside a strong commitment to developing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family ensures you feel valued from your initial interview and throughout your time with us.
We are clinically led and provide joined-up care by bridging hospital and community services, alongside delivering regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford, with community sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh, and services delivered in patients’ homes across Guildford and Waverley.
We work in partnership with Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust through a collaborative Group Model, supporting joined-up services, workforce flexibility and development opportunities.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated us as Outstanding. We are proud of our achievements and continue to invest in our people and infrastructure.
To learn more about life at Royal Surrey, please watch our short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will work with the Clinical, Digital and Transformation teams to ensure alignment of priorities to achieve the overall long term project plan and support the Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (CCIO) and Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) in ensuring Trust staff of all levels are assisted in making the transition to digital workflows. Improving patient safety, quality and patient experience is an explicit priority rather than an assumption and needs to underpin all elements of programme work undertaken.
The post holder will be required to work across all sites across the Trust as well as collaborate and mange relationships with their counterparts across other Trusts.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered as a Nurse, Midwife or AHP
- Educated to Degree level OR equivalent, specialist knowledge acquired through relevant experience.
Desirable criteria
- Quality Improvement course / change management e.g. QI course
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Strong history of clinical credibility
- Demonstrable experience of having worked in a fast paced decision making role in an acute environment
- Experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
- A good working knowledge of clinical and non-clinical systems for a designated group of clinical areas gained via direct experience as a clinician
- Strong interpersonal, reporting and communication skills
- Knowledge of IT concepts and systems
- Proven troubleshooting skills
- Experience of healthcare applications
- Experience of liaising with clients, collating requirements and mapping them to business processes
- The ability to work with multiple stakeholders to develop project plans and work streams with them.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates knowledge and ability to advise the Board/senior nurses on professional issues.
- Experience working in a multi-disciplinary team and knowledge of allied health professional requirements
- Experience of IT services
- Understand the importance of data, data structures, confidentiality and the use of data
- Project and process management skills demonstrated through experience and/or education
- Experience in sourcing approaches and evaluations linked to business needs
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