EPR Matron N/M/AHP

Job responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong professional links with peers in the wider clinical profession in conjunction with the Digital Leadership, CNIO and NMAHP. Act as a central conduit for Nursing/Midwifery/AHP staff ensuring their input and contribution is provided to projects within Trusts EPR programmes and that information about projects are shared with all NMAHP staff.
• Provide the operational clinical overview and expertise to the design and development of informatics-enabled change programmes, especially within nursing/midwifery/AHP services.
• Act as a leader to facilitate the operational and clinical change agenda, including the drive for reduction / elimination of variation in practice.
• Ensure that proposed service redesigns will be effective in improving clinical practice and patient care outcomes, whilst adhering to professional and informatics standards.
• Work in partnership with others to develop, take forward and evaluate direction, policies and strategies for the trust.
• Develop professional leadership skills in healthcare systems innovation, gain an understanding of emerging trends in healthcare information and records and apply this in practice
• Champion health informatics and the digital agenda as an enabler for safe and effective care. Supports and identifies opportunities for practitioners to enhance their role and the introduction of new ways of working to maximise use of digital systems to enhance patient care.
• The post holder will respond to, identify, escalate and make recommendations for changes when technical design inaccuracies are identified.
• Take responsibility for specific clinical safety assessments, as an accredited Clinical Safety Officer; of both new clinical systems (along with upgrades) and their applications.
• Responsible for the timely and efficient management of governance processes e.g. complaints, root case analysis and investigations. Where appropriate support the completion of investigations both patient and staff related.
• Collaboratively develop and disseminate learning material aligned to the Trusts standards enabling the relevant workforce to understand OH Cerner ER functionality.
• To keep up to date with the advancement in the Trusts healthcare technology enabling the post holder to be a source of expertise and advice. ,
• Feed into the Trust Wide digital health design and implementation projects ensuring that the content of the EPR is aligned to future NMAHP needs, national guidance and regulations and to Trust policy.
• Understanding of Digital Clinical Risk associated with the EPR deployment working with members of the workstreams to contribute to mitigations, translating risk impact to patient safety.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree supplemented by post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training to masters equivalent level
• A sound knowledge of professional priorities and issues
• Evidence of leadership and effectively managing change
• Ability to manage own and others workload with excellent time management skills
• Experience of service development. and applying Quality Improvement methodology
• Experience in using digital health platforms and technology
• Ability to understand and interpret data and apply to quality improvements
• Able to demonstrate contribution to clinical governance and risk management improvements.
• Experience of patient safety: responsibility for clinical risk management in a defined area of work
• Experience of successfully resolving complex problems
• Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
• Evidence of risk management activities
• Experience of risk analysis

Desirable

• Experience of EPR deployment activity
• Experience of Digital Champion networks
• Experience of using EPR solution
• Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture
• Management qualification Project Management qualification eg PRINCE2
• Awareness of incident management and PSIRF process

Qualifications and Professional Training

Essential

• Registered Nurse, Midwife or AHP
• Relevant professional qualification and current NMC/ HCPC registration
• Teaching/Leadership Qualification / relevant experience
• Educated to degree level in Nursing
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience of developing/delivering/monitoring and evaluating training / improvement programmes with clinical staff

Desirable

• Presentation skills for a range of audiences
• Evidence of delivering trust-wide teaching programmes
• Quality Improvement Qualification
• Clinical Safety Officer or willing to undertake training

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Significant experience at a band 7 senior clinical role
• Proven advanced clinical knowledge and skills
• Excellent presentation, communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to lead and motivate staff
• Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice
• Ability to facilitate change through personal development of staff
• Developed skills in the audit of incident investigation processes
• Supporting quality monitoring processes
• Good IT skills including knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel oGood understanding of organizational management issues
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Negotiating and influencing skills

Desirable

• Experience in the development of policy and protocols to support best practice Evidence of collaboration skills

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).