Job summary
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are seeking either a
Biomedical Scientist with an interest and extensive experience of pathology IT
or an experienced Pathology IT Specialist to lead on the implementation of a
replacement LIMS across our busy pathology service. This project forms part of
a wider project to harmonise to a single LIMS across the South 6 Pathology
network. You will work alongside a Trust IT Project Manager and also a LIMS
Training lead to oversee and manage the laboratory aspects of the project
including integration, interfacing and mapping to upstream and downstream
systems, Request for Change, data migration etc.
Main duties of the job
- Managing to successful delivery the Trust-wide LIMS replacement project and implement new and improved IT clinical applications and associated services to deliver required cost reductions, service improvements and other benefits.
- Managing staff seconded to those projects to deliver on time, within budget, and to meet quality criteria using PRINCE2 project methodology and following Trust PMO and IT Programme Office procedures.
- Promoting a project management culture within the NHS community as well as advising and assisting both non-IT project teams, and the Trust generally, on technical matters where relevant.
About us
The Trust is committed to driving excellence in care for our patients and communities and was rated good by the Care Quality Commission report published 2020 and became a University Hospital. We are ranked as the third in the country for research; embedding education and training across the organisation and we continuously strive to achieve our core values which are at the heart of everything we do. The Trusts main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, starting life as a military hospital over a century ago and now one of the largest hospitals on the south coast and you may have seen us on the TV series Nurses on the Ward. The Trust provides comprehensive secondary care and specialist services to a local population of 675,000 people across South East Hampshire. The Trust employs over 8,000 staff and are #ProudtobePHU; our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because its the right thing to do, but because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for providing outstanding care and support for patients, colleagues and our community you will find a home at PHU. In recruiting for our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in
terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender
identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans
status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Feasibility Reviews / Business Analyses
- Conduct project feasibility reviews of
proposed IT developments as required, consulting with reviewers of similar
projects in other IT teams and the PMO to avoid duplication and develop common
approaches.
- Test
technical, security and financial considerations to assess whether proposed IT
developments are feasible and document findings and recommendations.
- Carry
out business analyses to assess proposals and requests for the implementation
of technology in order to clarify the businesss top level requirements for
implementation and ongoing support, develop outline costings for these, and
rigorously define and test cash-releasing and other benefits to be delivered.
- Manage
customer expectations when new business ideas prove unworkable, do not fit
strategically or do not provide value for money, identifying alternative
solutions where possible.
- Develop
and produce, in conjunction with user departments, robust business cases to
support business improvement proposals, following the Trusts standard model
and funding approval route.
- Ensure
that IT considerations are included in projects that include a formal
procurement tendering process, this includes documenting tendering
specifications, output based specifications, weighting criteria and hosting
bidders conferences.
IT Project Management
- Manage
through to successful delivery allocated clinical IT projects, namely the
replacement of the pathology LIMS system, or IT components of business change
projects, to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and cost-efficiency of Trust
services.
- Ensure
Trust and IT Department project management processes are followed so that
project budgets, timescales, quality, staff resources and achievement of benefits
are adequately monitored and controlled and Trust and NHS standing financial
instructions, policies and procedures are scrupulously complied with.
- Identify
and resolve resource conflicts in liaison with project boards and service
providers.
- Advise on, and encourage, the re-engineering of business
processes, to ensure that maximum benefit is extracted and delivered.
- Liaise with relevant service managers to ensure the
agreement and successful delivery of appropriate benefits realisation plans.
- Report on projects status and progress to LIMS Steering
Board, IT senior management, project boards and other key stakeholders highlighting
anticipated risks to projects success and ensuring mitigating actions are implemented
as appropriate.
- Ensure consistent updating of plans as projects progress,
including version control and communication.
- Contribute to project gateway reviews and evaluations. Ensure all relevant information is gathered
to enable comprehensive and successful reviews of project viability can take
place.
- Where projects involve procurement of new systems or
services, ensure guidance from Supplies and the NHS Purchasing and Supplies
Agency is complied with, as well as Trust financial procedures.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Feasibility Reviews / Business Analyses
- Conduct project feasibility reviews of
proposed IT developments as required, consulting with reviewers of similar
projects in other IT teams and the PMO to avoid duplication and develop common
approaches.
- Test
technical, security and financial considerations to assess whether proposed IT
developments are feasible and document findings and recommendations.
- Carry
out business analyses to assess proposals and requests for the implementation
of technology in order to clarify the businesss top level requirements for
implementation and ongoing support, develop outline costings for these, and
rigorously define and test cash-releasing and other benefits to be delivered.
- Manage
customer expectations when new business ideas prove unworkable, do not fit
strategically or do not provide value for money, identifying alternative
solutions where possible.
- Develop
and produce, in conjunction with user departments, robust business cases to
support business improvement proposals, following the Trusts standard model
and funding approval route.
- Ensure
that IT considerations are included in projects that include a formal
procurement tendering process, this includes documenting tendering
specifications, output based specifications, weighting criteria and hosting
bidders conferences.
IT Project Management
- Manage
through to successful delivery allocated clinical IT projects, namely the
replacement of the pathology LIMS system, or IT components of business change
projects, to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and cost-efficiency of Trust
services.
- Ensure
Trust and IT Department project management processes are followed so that
project budgets, timescales, quality, staff resources and achievement of benefits
are adequately monitored and controlled and Trust and NHS standing financial
instructions, policies and procedures are scrupulously complied with.
- Identify
and resolve resource conflicts in liaison with project boards and service
providers.
- Advise on, and encourage, the re-engineering of business
processes, to ensure that maximum benefit is extracted and delivered.
- Liaise with relevant service managers to ensure the
agreement and successful delivery of appropriate benefits realisation plans.
- Report on projects status and progress to LIMS Steering
Board, IT senior management, project boards and other key stakeholders highlighting
anticipated risks to projects success and ensuring mitigating actions are implemented
as appropriate.
- Ensure consistent updating of plans as projects progress,
including version control and communication.
- Contribute to project gateway reviews and evaluations. Ensure all relevant information is gathered
to enable comprehensive and successful reviews of project viability can take
place.
- Where projects involve procurement of new systems or
services, ensure guidance from Supplies and the NHS Purchasing and Supplies
Agency is complied with, as well as Trust financial procedures.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Considerable proven track record in the effective management and delivery of large and complex projects through the whole project life cycle at a senior level.
- Considerable experience working in a NHS environment.
- Experience of system or process analysis.
- Able to demonstrate track record of successful project delivery especially including organisational or process change.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage with all levels of Trust personnel possessing differing levels of IT knowledge.
- Outstanding negotiation and influencing skills to have views accepted by others, to engage people from a variety of backgrounds in delivering project objectives and deliverables and to gain maximum benefit for customers from external suppliers and internal IT providers.
- Able to work under pressure and to tight timescales.
- Excellent organisational, planning and time-management skills.
- Able to set clear and appropriate priorities for self and others to meet overall goals.
- Excellent team-building, management and motivation skills for managing project and operational staff with specific project roles.
- Demonstrable knowledge of relevant current industry standard IT products and services.
- Knowledge of computerised systems and security practices.
- Good awareness of data protection and information security/governance issues.
- Proficient in MS Project, Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
Desirable
- Understanding of NHS clinical services and patient administrative processes.
- Knowledge of issues in acute health sector.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strong customer focus and desire to provide high quality service.
- Strong team player, providing effective customer-focused services amidst heavy workloads.
- Ability to promote professional and competent image at all levels of personal interaction.
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic and confident.
- Methodical, logical and numerate.
- Calm and patient under pressure.
- Patient and flexible, able to operate either as leader or part of a team.
- Mobility, clean driving license and access to a vehicle essential.
- Flexible approach to work outside normal office hours, when and if the need arises.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in an IT, business management subject or equivalent professional qualifications.
- Accredited PRINCE2 Practitioner or demonstrable qualifications with experience in project management, utilising a structured methodology.
- ITIL Foundation Certificate.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Considerable proven track record in the effective management and delivery of large and complex projects through the whole project life cycle at a senior level.
- Considerable experience working in a NHS environment.
- Experience of system or process analysis.
- Able to demonstrate track record of successful project delivery especially including organisational or process change.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively engage with all levels of Trust personnel possessing differing levels of IT knowledge.
- Outstanding negotiation and influencing skills to have views accepted by others, to engage people from a variety of backgrounds in delivering project objectives and deliverables and to gain maximum benefit for customers from external suppliers and internal IT providers.
- Able to work under pressure and to tight timescales.
- Excellent organisational, planning and time-management skills.
- Able to set clear and appropriate priorities for self and others to meet overall goals.
- Excellent team-building, management and motivation skills for managing project and operational staff with specific project roles.
- Demonstrable knowledge of relevant current industry standard IT products and services.
- Knowledge of computerised systems and security practices.
- Good awareness of data protection and information security/governance issues.
- Proficient in MS Project, Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint.
Desirable
- Understanding of NHS clinical services and patient administrative processes.
- Knowledge of issues in acute health sector.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Strong customer focus and desire to provide high quality service.
- Strong team player, providing effective customer-focused services amidst heavy workloads.
- Ability to promote professional and competent image at all levels of personal interaction.
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic and confident.
- Methodical, logical and numerate.
- Calm and patient under pressure.
- Patient and flexible, able to operate either as leader or part of a team.
- Mobility, clean driving license and access to a vehicle essential.
- Flexible approach to work outside normal office hours, when and if the need arises.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in an IT, business management subject or equivalent professional qualifications.
- Accredited PRINCE2 Practitioner or demonstrable qualifications with experience in project management, utilising a structured methodology.
- ITIL Foundation Certificate.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
