Job summary
EPR Systems Manager, Band 8c Inner London HCAs
Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east Londonand beyond.We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and highly motivated EPR Systems Manager to join our Clinical Systems team.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Systems team is responsible for supporting the Trust's core digital solutions, ensuring they are well maintained, available and suitable for use. The team support multiple solutions on enterprise architectures, providing support for the 5 hospitals of Barts Health.
The EPR Systems Manager will provide managerial and strategic direction and lead a portfolio of core digital solutions across Barts Health. They will perform line management responsibilities to additional technical and administrative staff and promote a collaborative approach to delivery in the workplace.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
For informal discussions, please contact Daniel Phillips, Director of Clinical Systems (daniel.phillips5@nhs.net).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.
For informal discussions, please contact Daniel Phillips, Director of Clinical Systems (daniel.phillips5@nhs.net).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a technical or computer science related subject or equivalent, substantial work experience
- Service / project management qualification e.g. ITIL, MSCE, MSC or equivalent; MSP, PRINCE2 or similar
- Substantial management training or management qualification (e.g. ILM) or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification such as an MSc, MBA or other appropriate business, engineering or scientific qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant management experience working in a large, complex organisation providing strategic and technical solution expertise
- Significant experience of solution/enterprise solutions within large scale projects and programmes within an organisation that uses a structured design methodology
- Extensive experience of leading a technology-reliant organisation through the process of capability, maturity and innovation uplift
- Proven ability to create design solutions that solve business issues
- Extensive experience on strategy and design for multiple complex hospital systems integration.
- Experience of formulating IT strategy, business cases and roadmaps
- Financial and budgetary management of 7 figure budgets, forecasts and programmes
- Excellent people management skills and able to undertake all HR-related activities and requirements and manage a team to provide a high-quality service
- Extensive experience of report writing and business planning at both operational and strategic level and able to plan services and develop strategies and policies
- Demonstrable experience of managing complex systems change
- Experience of contract management
Desirable
- Previous experience in a similar position within the NHS or healthcare provider
- Act as an advocate for change and drive and implement cultural chang
- Experience of managing high profile multiple contracts and managed services deals
Knowledge
Essential
- Strong working knowledge of healthcare clinical system requirements and strategy
- Expert understanding of software development platforms, application commissioning, software testing, and application deployment.
- Aptitude to design software solutions that will fit into long-term business objectives and strategy
- Awareness and understanding of emerging healthcare
- software developments and potential implications
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Commitment to continuous professional development and a willingness to learn new skills and technologies
Skills
Essential
- Strong solution architecture and design approach
- High level of interpersonal and organisational skills -self starter
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Excellent business analysis skills: able to produce metrics, analyse and interpret information and produce regular reports on current status, trend analysis and service improvement
- Able to take ownership of data related design decisions throughout the delivery process, including selection of tools to support data architecture activities
- Able to prioritise and work under pressure to meet deadlines and SLAs
- Flexible approach
- Able to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical IT people may understand
- Effective team player
Communication
Essential
- Able to make and communicate decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
- Effective interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to interpret and communicate complex information to staff with varying technical knowledge
- Evidence of the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams to deliver best performance
- Evidence of the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams to deliver best performance
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in a technical or computer science related subject or equivalent, substantial work experience
- Service / project management qualification e.g. ITIL, MSCE, MSC or equivalent; MSP, PRINCE2 or similar
- Substantial management training or management qualification (e.g. ILM) or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification such as an MSc, MBA or other appropriate business, engineering or scientific qualification
Experience
Essential
- Significant management experience working in a large, complex organisation providing strategic and technical solution expertise
- Significant experience of solution/enterprise solutions within large scale projects and programmes within an organisation that uses a structured design methodology
- Extensive experience of leading a technology-reliant organisation through the process of capability, maturity and innovation uplift
- Proven ability to create design solutions that solve business issues
- Extensive experience on strategy and design for multiple complex hospital systems integration.
- Experience of formulating IT strategy, business cases and roadmaps
- Financial and budgetary management of 7 figure budgets, forecasts and programmes
- Excellent people management skills and able to undertake all HR-related activities and requirements and manage a team to provide a high-quality service
- Extensive experience of report writing and business planning at both operational and strategic level and able to plan services and develop strategies and policies
- Demonstrable experience of managing complex systems change
- Experience of contract management
Desirable
- Previous experience in a similar position within the NHS or healthcare provider
- Act as an advocate for change and drive and implement cultural chang
- Experience of managing high profile multiple contracts and managed services deals
Knowledge
Essential
- Strong working knowledge of healthcare clinical system requirements and strategy
- Expert understanding of software development platforms, application commissioning, software testing, and application deployment.
- Aptitude to design software solutions that will fit into long-term business objectives and strategy
- Awareness and understanding of emerging healthcare
- software developments and potential implications
Specific Requirements
Essential
- Commitment to continuous professional development and a willingness to learn new skills and technologies
Skills
Essential
- Strong solution architecture and design approach
- High level of interpersonal and organisational skills -self starter
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues
- Excellent business analysis skills: able to produce metrics, analyse and interpret information and produce regular reports on current status, trend analysis and service improvement
- Able to take ownership of data related design decisions throughout the delivery process, including selection of tools to support data architecture activities
- Able to prioritise and work under pressure to meet deadlines and SLAs
- Flexible approach
- Able to explain complex technical issues in a way that non-technical IT people may understand
- Effective team player
Communication
Essential
- Able to make and communicate decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action responding openly to questions to ensure full understanding and engagement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for a range of audiences, including chairing of meetings
- Effective interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to interpret and communicate complex information to staff with varying technical knowledge
- Evidence of the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams to deliver best performance
- Evidence of the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams to deliver best performance
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
