Job summary
The role of the WYAAT (West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts) Head of Pathology Systems & Interoperability is act as the system owner for the West Yorkshire & Harrogate Pathology Network Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and ICE Enterprise as well as the development and functionality of pathology systems owed at a Trust level.
Main duties of the job
The Head of Pathology Systems & Interoperability will be responsible for:
- Leadership of development and implementation of LIMS and ICE Enterprise alongside the Implementation Manager and programme team
- Reshape our current Pathology IT support services to enable successful support and maintenance to a single instance system across six WYAAT Trusts.
- Provide leadership and management to the Network support function in the long-term.
- Take a strategic role in advancing digital solutions across the Network including deployment of digital cellular pathology, growing use of artificial intelligence and near patient and self-testing, providing subject matter expertise and oversight of implementation of new solutions which expand digitisation or interoperability across the pathology network.
About us
We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The postholder will:
Design and implementation
- Provide strategic leadership in the advancement of new solutions which expand digitisation or interoperability across the Network.
- Provide leadership to the design and implementation of pathology systems and solutions.
- Seek opportunities for service development through use of technology solutions.
- Lead a review of pathology systems support model across the Network members and develop a recommended model for approval by the Network Board
- Lead implementation of the recommended model, including transitional arrangements.
- Manage relationships across the membership of the pathology network to achieve consensus and standardisation of systems and processes where appropriate.
See Job Description for full responsibilities
Job description
Job responsibilities
The postholder will:
Design and implementation
- Provide strategic leadership in the advancement of new solutions which expand digitisation or interoperability across the Network.
- Provide leadership to the design and implementation of pathology systems and solutions.
- Seek opportunities for service development through use of technology solutions.
- Lead a review of pathology systems support model across the Network members and develop a recommended model for approval by the Network Board
- Lead implementation of the recommended model, including transitional arrangements.
- Manage relationships across the membership of the pathology network to achieve consensus and standardisation of systems and processes where appropriate.
See Job Description for full responsibilities
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Educated to master's degree level or equivalent experience
- Degree qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Member of IBMS
- Project or Programme Management Qualification e.g., Agile, MSP
- Business Change Qualification e.g., ISEB
- IT Service and Lifecycle Management Qualifications e.g., ITIL
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of managing relationships and contracts with commercial suppliers
- Experience and success in engagement with all levels of organisations, creating momentum and completing initiatives
- Experience in project/system/service documentation and change control
- Experience of managing multiple projects and managing inter-dependencies
- Knowledge of operational pathology services and in-depth understanding of pathology IT requirements including LIMS and other systems used in pathology
- Enterprise-scale experience with technology infrastructures, architectures and design with hands-on experience.
- Enterprise-scale experience with technology infrastructures, architectures and design with hands-on experience.
- Experienced at developing appropriate policies and procedures to facilitate process change associated with project implementations and/ or operational services.
- Good understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in respect of pathology networks
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of working at senior level in NHS
- Experience in delivery of pathology IT and digital solutions
- Excellent understanding of the use of technology solutions to enable complex workflows and advanced data processing.
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- Experience in managing flexible and project-based teams through influence
- Significant experience of providing specialist advice to a range of professionals and in a range of environments.
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Highly developed contract management and negotiation skills
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary.
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Commitment to continuing professional development.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential
- Educated to master's degree level or equivalent experience
- Degree qualification or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Member of IBMS
- Project or Programme Management Qualification e.g., Agile, MSP
- Business Change Qualification e.g., ISEB
- IT Service and Lifecycle Management Qualifications e.g., ITIL
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential
- Experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Experience of managing relationships and contracts with commercial suppliers
- Experience and success in engagement with all levels of organisations, creating momentum and completing initiatives
- Experience in project/system/service documentation and change control
- Experience of managing multiple projects and managing inter-dependencies
- Knowledge of operational pathology services and in-depth understanding of pathology IT requirements including LIMS and other systems used in pathology
- Enterprise-scale experience with technology infrastructures, architectures and design with hands-on experience.
- Enterprise-scale experience with technology infrastructures, architectures and design with hands-on experience.
- Experienced at developing appropriate policies and procedures to facilitate process change associated with project implementations and/ or operational services.
- Good understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy in respect of pathology networks
Desirable
- Demonstrable experience of working at senior level in NHS
- Experience in delivery of pathology IT and digital solutions
- Excellent understanding of the use of technology solutions to enable complex workflows and advanced data processing.
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential
- Experience in managing flexible and project-based teams through influence
- Significant experience of providing specialist advice to a range of professionals and in a range of environments.
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Highly developed contract management and negotiation skills
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues.
- Ability to work on own initiative and organise workload, allocating work as necessary.
- An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust
- Used to working in a busy environment
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
- Commitment to continuing professional development.
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.
