Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Clinical Systems Manager

The closing date is 04 August 2025

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician/non clinician who has a passion for digital transformation of services to join our digital clinical systems team.

To succeed in this role, you will have excellent communication and leadership skills in order to influence digital clinical system practice and promote safety in the design, implementation and use of healthcare technology.

Embedded in Digital Technical Services (DTS), the post holder will play a senior role, reporting to the Deputy Head of Clinical Systems Team, and will be responsible for the management and ongoing development of NHFT Clinical Systems Team (CST). They will ensure that the service has a safe clinical system function that supports the Trust to be a provider of outstanding patient care, via the use of safe and effective digital clinical tools.

The post is full-time (37.5 hours) and permanent and will involve travel between sites across the Trust estate.

Main duties of the job

You will provide day to day management and leadership for CST to include staff and service development and hold responsibility for operational delivery of service outcomes.

You will have demonstrable communication and problem-solving skills, a can-do attitude and a commitment to working collaboratively with stakeholders, developing strong relationships to support the planning and delivery of programmes of work that improve safety, quality and efficiency.

Key functions include clinical system management, maintenance, and support (where appropriate within service contracts). Working with colleagues across the Trust and other organisations, ensuring that CST has the frameworks, procedures and processes in place to:

Assure training is accessible to all and support end users

Safely and effectively manage service requests and changes within KPIs and SLAs

Maintain the integrity of the live clinical solutions

Work closely with system suppliers so that functionality roadmaps are understood and contractual standards are met

Work with the Clinical Team to ensure Trust systems are clinically safe

Oversee the Registration Authority (RA) function, maintaining the trust's position on regulatory compliance and identify areas for improvement

Deputise where appropriate for the HOS and/or the Deputy HOS

About us

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be 'outstanding' by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Date posted

24 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£47,810 to £54,710 a year pa

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

270-TG233-CORP

Job locations

RCI, Haylock House

Kettering

NN15 6EY

Job description

Job responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Assessment against Application Form

Essential

Meets essential criteria within behaviours and values
Meets essential criteria within knowledge and experience

Assessment against Application Form

Essential

Meets essential criteria within skills and abilities

Person Specification

Assessment against Application Form

Essential

Meets essential criteria within behaviours and values
Meets essential criteria within knowledge and experience

Assessment against Application Form

Essential

Meets essential criteria within skills and abilities

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

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).

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