Anna Awoliyi

I am a hardworking and dedicated individual with ambition, coupled with management, clinical practic and biosciences. My excellent ability to communicate with different people at all levels has contributed to the success of any given project I have been involved in.
 

November 2021 – Present 
Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (Nursing and Allied Health Professional)
Epsom and St Helier Universities NHS Trust

● Translate and main point of liaison for nursing informatics, nursing and midwifery management and Informatics professionals. Owning the strategic vision for how technology will enhance nursing and midwifery practices, clinical quality, and patient safety, the CNIO leads the nursing informatics work on the selection, development, and deployment of solutions to ensure the smooth integration of technology into nursing clinical workflows.
● Communicates the benefits of Health Informatics enabled initiatives to engage the nursing workforce. Working in partnership with the Corporate Senior Nursing Team and under the line management of the Director of Corporate Services, to ensure a convergent clinical strategy is developed and delivered.
● Promote innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate information culture across the health economy.
● Work on quality improvement projects across the full range of clinical information systems, predominately focused on the planning and implementation of the functionality provided by the Electronic Patient Record (EPR).
● Lead the strategic, development and implementation of informatics to support nursing / clinical practice and clinical applications.
● Responsible for the strategic and operational nursing / clinical leadership in development, deployment, re-engineering, optimisation and integration of clinical information systems to support nurses in the delivery of safe and effective patient care.
● Provides liaison between IT function in the design and deployment of new technologies and systems to support nursing / clinical care and documentation processes.
●  Serve as principle nursing informatics advisor to the Director of Corporate Services
● Represent the nursing workforce as the main point of contact for EPR and attends all EPR related meetings and committees.
● Attend Professional Nursing and Midwifery meetings
● Advise relevant parties on, and be accountable for, the impact of the IT enabled clinical initiatives on nursing practices that result from IT enabled clinical initiatives.
● An EPR change champion leading the super user communities across the Trust.
● Management of budgets and staff within various teams as and when appropriate.
● Support the Chief Nurse to deliver his/her portfolio and any other initiatives or priorities as directed.
● Keep up to date with contemporary clinical practice, exploring new idea and introduce positive, evidence based change in line with local and national initiatives.
● Contribute to professional policy making by working in collaboration with the chief nurse, in implementing the Trust’s nursing and midwifery strategy, and actively participate in the nursing and midwifery executive committee.
● Translate and explain the implications, including the change management requirements, of the I&T-enabled clinical initiatives to the nursing workforce. Lead and be accountable for the nursing change management work.
● Understand and communicate the benefits of the IT-enabled clinical initiatives to engage nurses and Allied Health Professionals throughout the full lifecycle (i.e. from project inception through to optimising and enhancing the new ways of working). Be accountable for the nursing benefits communication work.
● Work in collaboration with the Chief Nurse lead the education and training of the nursing workforce to change nursing work practices to enable benefits realisation. Be accountable for the nursing benefits realisation work, supported by the relevant project teams and others as necessary.
● Promote and support the professional development of nursing staff to use EPR.
● In conjunction with the divisional heads of nursing work with the matrons, sisters and educational teams to provide training provision for EPR.
●  Ensures a competent, technology – enabled nursing workforce.
● Articulate and educate the nursing teams at all levels within the Trust around the importance of technology in clinical care.
● Play a lead role in digitalising patient flow systems and help maximise bed capacity.
● Analyse, synthesise and present knowledge and information about complex subjects and concepts to influence key decisions.
● To monitor and review clinical safety standards during the development and implementation of EPR processes and systems.
● To lead on audits in relation to EPR implementation and change management.
● To critique and refine programme plans, assess team capability and approaches used, and monitor delivery of capability to align with strategic priorities within the Trust.
● Assess risks to delivery of team capability and hold individuals to account for EPR delivery against realistic objectives in conjunction with the CCIO.
● Act as the Trusts Clinical Safety Officer in relation to appropriate nurse centric health informatics systems.
● Promote and develop the culture of a learning organisation committed to high quality care, with robust systems to support this and learn from events and incidents, including near misses.
● Collects, analyses and reports data in collaboration with quality on patient safety issues and outcomes in relation to EPR.
● Investigates the reporting of nursing errors where EPR is a contributing factor.
● Responsible for ensuring quality improvement, promoting informatics, research, regulatory bodies and guidelines as well as evidence-based practice that supports positive clinical outcomes.
● Actively promote legislation and responsibilities under the health and safety at work act.

June 2019 – November 2021 
Digital Lead Nursing and Allied Health  
(Chief Allied Health Information Officer (CAHIO)
Kettering General Hospital  

● As a CAHIO, I act as the voice for nursing and allied health professionals in the strategic direction on the design, implementation and use of digital solutions to ensure the delivery of high quality healthcare services.

● Provide strategic level advice and guidance, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure the appropriate and successful use of integrated knowledge and information systems.

●  Promoting innovation and champion the development of a clinically appropriate information culture, as an enabler of change and quality improvement across the organisation.

● Support the implementation of the Trust’s Digital Strategy and the wider Local Digital Roadmap (LDR).

● Work with the Trust executive and other members of the Trust Digital Hospital Board to take responsibility and accountability for the strategic direction of the Digital Hospital design, implementation and delivery.

● Monitor delivery of the programme plan ensuring it remains aligned with the strategic priorities of the Trust. This includes the ability to delay or stop projects and programmes of work if they present an unacceptable level of clinical risk.

● Bridge organisational silos by identifying, highlighting and managing across programme dependencies.

● Translate clinical needs into the Digital Strategy and communicate the aims of the strategy to peers through variety of methods.

●  Act on own initiative to deal with contentious and sensitive issues.

● Ensure that the education and developmental needs of staff are commissioned to meet the requirements of the Trust’s Digital Strategy.

● Actively promote the benefits and use of IT in the clinical setting to improve safety, quality and efficiency in care delivery leading to improvements in the patient/family/carer experience.

● Ensure that relevant professional stakeholders are consulted and engaged in the design, delivery and evaluation of clinical information systems and that prioritisation of developments is clinically-led by the appropriate clinical/professional groups.

● Act as an advocate champion for digital solutions as an enabler for safe and effective care.

● Enable integration of optimum technological cultures and developing best practice from the different parts of local health and care, and the wider NHS.

● With experience successfully delivering Care-Flow Vitals (Handheld Electronic observations) to over 38 areas within the Trust, implementing the use of over 600 iPod and iPad devices within the organisation, ensuring engagement from all stakeholders. The implementation is followed by further successful upgrades of Hot fixes and Priority 1-3 bug fixes

● Co-ordinate the collection and dissemination of “lessons learnt” from projects to define optimal changes in subsequent processes and procedures.

● Actively seek views from fellow colleagues to ensure views are formed from the majority.

● Work with the clinical community to identify areas to try out new ideas in a safe way, seeking to define emergent approaches to digital delivery that can be implemented.

● Provide intelligent and original thought to aid the development of long term plans for clinically and financially sound “sustainable system” across the whole trust addressing all practice areas.

● Monitor, challenge and drive developments in the continuous iteration of the Digital Strategy to promote best practice within the Trust. 
December 2017 – June 2019  
Transformation Programme Manager 
Kettering General Hospital

● Develop, lead and manage the delivery of projects within the Nursing and Midwifery Strategy, Operational Plan and Transformation Programme, which will primarily focus on ensuring that wards and departments work to maximum efficiency for the benefit of both staff and patients. In transforming care delivery systems the postholder must ensure that the changes  do not have an adverse impact on patient care and quality.
● To deputise for the Director of Transformation as required.
● To support the Director of Nursing and Quality and Director of Finance and Programme Boards in the identification and management of inter project and Programme dependencies with escalation to the Programme Lead and Executive sponsor as appropriate.
● Identify and plan the scope and resource requirements of new projects required to deliver the Transformational change in clinical practice areas.  Examples of such programmes are the implementation of the ‘Productive Series’, and a supportive review of documentation and its impact on patient care and staff efficiency. This will be further explored by the wider healthcare team as the programme of work develops
● Work with the Nursing Executive and Practice Development nurses to ensure that  the Programme of projects has an acceptable balance of risk, benefit, and pace and supports stakeholder priorities.
● To oversee the successful completion and implementation of projects to Operational support with the necessary approval.
● Comply with the financial processes and deadlines (e.g. ensuring benefits are identified in the appropriate timescales).
● Support Clinical and Corporate services in the identification, planning and implementation of service redesign. 
● Support development and maintenance of project plans to deliver productivity and efficiency targets across the Business Units.
● Ensure that any financial information (cost or benefit) related to the Programme is accurate, up-to-date and are verified by Finance.
● Development of business justifications, business cases and programme initiation and definition documents in collaboration with Business Unit operational teams.
● Direct and motivate project teams while emphasising a focus on project delivery. Provide expert advice and guidance to all grades of project management staff and provide mentoring and training where appropriate.
● To establish and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders for the Programme in order to achieve the business change and benefits outlined in the Programme objectives.
● Conduct regular Research & Development to identify and validate emerging Programme Management and project management techniques. 
● Plan, lead and monitor the Programme and individual project progress in line with the Programme governance structure.
● Conduct internal Delivery Programme and Project reviews to evaluate adherence to agreed Delivery Programme and project management standards
● Report regularly on project Programme performance, risk management and financial control. 
● Ensure that the business is carried out in accordance with the extant Standing Financial Instructions, Standing Orders, and Policies and Procedures, including Health and Safety Regulations 
● To manage effective programme reporting across the Programme of projects ensuring that progress, issues, risks and changes are handled appropriately. Formally briefing the Programme Lead prior to Programme boards and other meetings as appropriate.

Programme Assurance

Be responsible for ensuring appropriate and consistent process development and implementation in regard to the leadership and  management of milestone delivery, interdependency management, project risks, mitigations, issues, change and configuration management within the Programmes.
Ensure every project has a robust project plan with clear roles, responsibilities accountabilities and timescales for delivery.  Ensure each plan has an Executive Sponsor, Project Lead, and Clinical Lead(if appropriate); clear agreed objectives; risk management and benefits realisation metrics against which delivery can be monitored.
Developing and providing key operational management data and programme reports, for review and use by the necessary Programme Board.
Overall lead responsibility for programme assurance within their Programme (for clarity this excludes any business assurance function including business case management, procurement and HR). 
Lead and manage the development of Programme and project assurance processes, governance and standards 
Effective management of risks and issues including clearly defined escalation routes.
To ensure an effective change control and decision process across projects providing effective and auditable logs.
To lead an effective and appropriate usage of relevant project tools and techniques across the Programme.
Where appropriate conduct/lead internal Gateway Reviews which will involve the analysis, interpretation and judgement of highly complex information.
Ensure adequate project assurance preparation in relation to pending Gateway reviews and similar audits.
To promote the wider understanding of project governance and assurance issues within the Programme and to provide training for project staff through effective communications.
To develop and use appropriate Information and Technology systems to enhance performance management both within the programme of work and day to day Operational functions.
Ensure that effective Programme governance procedures are established and operated to support the delivery and development of efficiency and quality improvement plans across the Trust. 
To lead by example, actively promoting and role-modelling the behaviour and the Trust’s Vision & Values in line with the We Will CARE Together programme. To promote a culture that is patient-focused and where high quality care is delivered according to the best available evidence. 
To foster a culture that values respect, teamwork and excellence in all aspects of the delivery of patient care. To develop a working environment where all staff within the team are empowered and when necessary raise concerns. 
To ensure all staff within the service function are annually appraised, have their development needs identified and have a personal development plan.  
To participate in and fulfil the requirements of the Senior Manager on-call. 
Adhere to the standards laid down in the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers and at all times act in a manner that reflects and promotes the values of the Trust. 
To support the development of a performance-based culture within the organisation through personal advocacy and leadership behaviour.

Leadership

Provide a clear, effective and appropriate leadership style that engages the team and ensures the vision and direction of travel is clear
Ensure that individual staff members work in a climate where their contribution is valued, developing roles across boundaries and working collaboratively in teams
Represent the Trust on networks, working party’s and committees as required
Contribute to the maintenance of productive collaborative working relations with staff in CCG and other agencies to address any gaps or inequalities in services

This job description is not exhaustive and will be reviewed and amended, with the post holder, when necessary.
 

2023 -April 2024 – MSc Explainable Artificial intelligence and Hospital Management University of Pavia Italy with Health Education England and European Union

2024 Statutory Mandatory Training Epsom and St Helier University Hospital

2022 -  Digital Health - Harvard University

2019 – 2021  – NHS Leadership Academy – CPD – Ready Now Programme

2018 – Oxford University – CPD – Successful Change Management

Jan 2014  - Resuscitation Council (UK)  Advanced Life Support

Sep 2009 – 2011. University of West London, DipHE in Operation Department Practice    

Sep 2007 – Aug 2008. University of East London, Msc Project Management 
Risk Management, Financial Management, Human Resource Management. 
● Prince 2 (Foundation) Certified.
● Prince 2 Practitioner   Certified.

Sep 2001 – 2005 London South Bank University BSc (Hon) Biochemistry. (2:1)
Extensive knowledge of Disease and Immunity, Human Physiology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Analytical chemistry, Nutrition, Project Management (Final Project: “Are Plasma Phospholipids altered in pediatric Oncology”, Working with Biological specimen). 

Sep 1999 – Jul 2001 St Charles Sixth Form College
Biology, Theatre Studies, Media

Sep 1997 – Jul 1999 Burlington Danes School Church of England
Nine GCSEs at C and above, including Math, Biology, English Language & Literature and Information Technology