SFIA Skills: Information management (IRMG)

Specifies at a strategic level the business functions and data subjects needed to support future business, thereby enabling the development of an information architecture.

Engages with external partner organisations to promote good information management across organisational boundaries, seeking to capitalise on appropriate information, and drive better ways of sharing information and human resources from own and other’s organisations in support of agreed priorities.

Takes overall responsibility for information management (processes, data rules, data integrity), on behalf of the organisation.

Directs information resources, to create value for the stakeholders by improving the performance of the organisation, while maintaining the principles of professional standards, accountability, openness, equality and diversity, and clarity of purpose.

Ensures the organisation’s business processes and data flows are correctly modelled, and that the information architecture to support these is put in place, maintained up to date, aligned to the data management lifecycle and communicated to all levels of management.

Takes responsibility for compliance with any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations, standards and codes of good practice relating to information and documentation, records management, information assurance, security, quality, and data protection.

Establishes, maintains and communicates the organisation’s information management strategy, developing it as an integral part of the business strategy. Ensures that clinical policies and procedures are aligned to digital tools and that digital systems align with professional standards, thereby enabling the workforce to meet their regulatory requirements as set out by the relevant professional body.