Head of Clinical Systems
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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.
Details
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
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
County Hospital Hereford
Union walk, Hereford HR1 2ER
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Acting Head of Clinical Systems/Lead Nurse-Digital
Catherine Davies
07789213816
