Head of Clinical Systems

Wye Valley NHS Trust

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Job summary

The Head of Clinical Systems is a key role within IM&T at WVT with responsibility for managing the Clinical System Management Team. The team are responsible for managing clinical systems to ensure our teams, operational, clinical and administration staff, are able to provide digitally enabled patient care.

Key to the role are team development skills especially those that can support optimisation of clinical systems. Essential is the ability to work collaboratively, both internally with IM&T Project team, and externally with Group and ICB colleagues and system suppliers. As a Senior member of the IM&T team the postholder is expected to support the Associate Director with local digital strategy and provide expertise on advanced clinical systems.

Main duties of the job

To manage the Clinical Systems team to ensure clinical systems are safe efficient and effective for staff within the organisation.

To have overall responsibility for configuration, testing and maintenance activities of clinical systems. Ensuring that they are safe in clinical practice.

To manage resources within the team to ensure training, optimisation and development is managed within available resource.

Lead on ensuring clinical systems are optimised for use, ensuring good communication is provided to all including external stakeholders and suppliers.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Date posted

07 February 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8b

Salary

£62,215 to £72,293 a year pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

229-COR-6965528

Job locations

County Hospital Hereford

Union walk, Hereford HR1 2ER

Hereford

HR1 2ER

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Masters/Higher level degree or equivalent experience
Practitioner level accreditation in ITIL or equivalent

Desirable

Practitioner level accreditation in PRINCE 2 project management or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Successful project or general management experience-(Managing a number of project/general staff)
Evidence of successful budgetary management of teams
Previous service improvement or process redesign work ideally using IT as an enabler

Desirable

Knowledge of local, regional and national digital strategies

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Demonstrable excellent written and oral communication skills having produced papers/status papaers for Project Boards or Trust Boards
Strong IM&T skill base and high level technical awareness
Evidence of successful risk management regarding complex multi-organisational projects

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Masters/Higher level degree or equivalent experience
Practitioner level accreditation in ITIL or equivalent

Desirable

Practitioner level accreditation in PRINCE 2 project management or equivalent

Experience

Essential

Successful project or general management experience-(Managing a number of project/general staff)
Evidence of successful budgetary management of teams
Previous service improvement or process redesign work ideally using IT as an enabler

Desirable

Knowledge of local, regional and national digital strategies

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Demonstrable excellent written and oral communication skills having produced papers/status papaers for Project Boards or Trust Boards
Strong IM&T skill base and high level technical awareness
Evidence of successful risk management regarding complex multi-organisational projects

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.