Job summary
This role is in the Shared EPR Team, part of The Health Informatics Service hosted by CHFT. This job is also being advertised at BTHFT and AFT.
Applications are invited from clinically registered persons with significant experience of Electronic Patient Record systems to play a key role in leading clinical systems development in an established team.
We welcome applications from individuals in other NHS organisations and from the private sector, please review the essential experience defined in the job description. It is important that our team continues to have a mix of clinical, administrative and technical experts and we can support you in developing skills in this fast growing and increasingly critical hospital system.
Main duties of the job
Airedale Foundation Trust are joining Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust and Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust by using their Electronic Patient Record.
We expect to welcome around 3000 new EPR users in November, and because of this we are looking for applicants to fill a range of clinical, technical and administrative roles in our Shared EPR Team.
The Team manages one of the most complex hospital systems in the UK, building new content, improving clinical workflows and ensuring that interfaces to other clinical systems are operating correctly.
If you already use the Cerner EPR (provided by Oracle Health) or are interested in being part of our team to help improve patient outcomes and staff working practice, then please take a look at the different roles on offer.
The Shared EPR Team is made up of colleagues from BTHFT, CHFT and AFT, and if you work at one of these Trusts today you can still be employed by them and join us.
These same vacancies are being advertised by all 3 Trusts, you only need to apply via the one Trust you would like to work for. Please note, you may receive communication from any of the 3 Trusts regarding shortlisting or interview. The 3 Trusts have a data-sharing agreement and information you submit will be securely held and managed.
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 Shared EPR Deputy Clinical manager will provide a strategic and leadership based clinical configuration role within the Electronic Patient Records (EPR) team in the delivery of a service. This will include involvement with EPR colleagues, managers and staff in clinical and non-clinical directorates, other appropriate NHS organisations and external stakeholders to ensure that the EPR meets the requirements of all stakeholders, including legal requirements, and is delivered on time and in accordance with the Trusts present and future requirements.
The role will include oversight of the requesting, requirements gathering and development process and ensuring adequate capacity and demand management. Working with the Shared Head of EPR the role will be required to balance general maintenance of the solutions with ongoing developments to ensure maximum effiiciency of the EPR team as well as horizon scanning and developing the clinical roadmap in the EPR.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Shared EPR Deputy Clinical manager will provide a strategic and leadership based clinical configuration role within the Electronic Patient Records (EPR) team in the delivery of a service. This will include involvement with EPR colleagues, managers and staff in clinical and non-clinical directorates, other appropriate NHS organisations and external stakeholders to ensure that the EPR meets the requirements of all stakeholders, including legal requirements, and is delivered on time and in accordance with the Trusts present and future requirements.
The role will include oversight of the requesting, requirements gathering and development process and ensuring adequate capacity and demand management. Working with the Shared Head of EPR the role will be required to balance general maintenance of the solutions with ongoing developments to ensure maximum effiiciency of the EPR team as well as horizon scanning and developing the clinical roadmap in the EPR.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in the NHS in a service area. Recent experience of working in a large Acute Trust with senior managers and clinicians.
- Experience in supervising or managing staff underpinned by knowledge of HR, staff performance and workforce issues.
- Experience in electronic patient records implementation and support
- Experienced in developing work plans for a large team and prioritising workload
- Experience of having worked in a management/leadership role within the NHS
- Experience in contributing to policy and service development across directorates
- Experience of managing change
- Experience in designing, building, testing and deploying Information Systems within large highly-complex organisations
- Budget management experience
- Evidence of building effective working relationships with clinical leaders, partner organisations and other stakeholders
- Policy development experience
- Previous experience on working on the design, development and implementation of new business processes within the context of a computer system implementation project;
- Experience for developing in a team orientated, collaborative environment
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and make judgements on the Clinical Solutions they lead where information (which may be incomplete) derived from complex and varied inputs, including written and oral sources where obvious solutions are not clear.
- Ability to exercise analytical skills in complex and conflicting situations, ensuring the outcome does not have unwanted consequences on the Clinical Solutions they lead.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills using a systematic, thorough and logical approach
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent report writing skills
- Presentation skills - both verbal and written and the ability to adapt style to suit the audience
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to prioritise own and teams workload and meet deadlines
- Ability to manage risk
- Ability to manage, influence and achieve change, resolve conflict and negotiate a way forward involving clinical and non-clinical stakeholders
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Innovative and creative skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge and understanding of the NHS Constitution in relation to patient access and an ability to work across operational boundaries
- Specialist knowledge and considerable in-depth experience of EPR Design, Test, Delivery, and adoption of several Clinical Solutions, particularly in complex projects involving EPR related change within the NHS
- Specialist theoretical knowledge and expertise relating to all processes required in delivering several core EPR Clinical Solutions (specialised areas) including NHS processes and procedures, design, test, and adoption, and post implementation evaluation
- Expert knowledge of electronic patient record systems
- Advanced knowledge of the IT systems, tools or products that can be used to enable clinical work
- Evidence of current CPD
- Knowledge of Recruitment and Selection, Appraisal and other HR/People Management Policies and Procedures
- Understanding of service areas
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to post graduate degree level in a clinical specialty e.g. nursing, midwifery, Physiotherapy etc. or Business Administration/Change Management/ Health Informatics/Process Redesign or similar, or an equivalent level of knowledge gained through practical experience
- Clinical Registration
Desirable
- IT Service Management Qualification
- Project Management Qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in the NHS in a service area. Recent experience of working in a large Acute Trust with senior managers and clinicians.
- Experience in supervising or managing staff underpinned by knowledge of HR, staff performance and workforce issues.
- Experience in electronic patient records implementation and support
- Experienced in developing work plans for a large team and prioritising workload
- Experience of having worked in a management/leadership role within the NHS
- Experience in contributing to policy and service development across directorates
- Experience of managing change
- Experience in designing, building, testing and deploying Information Systems within large highly-complex organisations
- Budget management experience
- Evidence of building effective working relationships with clinical leaders, partner organisations and other stakeholders
- Policy development experience
- Previous experience on working on the design, development and implementation of new business processes within the context of a computer system implementation project;
- Experience for developing in a team orientated, collaborative environment
Skills
Essential
- Ability to analyse and make judgements on the Clinical Solutions they lead where information (which may be incomplete) derived from complex and varied inputs, including written and oral sources where obvious solutions are not clear.
- Ability to exercise analytical skills in complex and conflicting situations, ensuring the outcome does not have unwanted consequences on the Clinical Solutions they lead.
- Excellent planning and organisational skills using a systematic, thorough and logical approach
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent report writing skills
- Presentation skills - both verbal and written and the ability to adapt style to suit the audience
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Ability to prioritise own and teams workload and meet deadlines
- Ability to manage risk
- Ability to manage, influence and achieve change, resolve conflict and negotiate a way forward involving clinical and non-clinical stakeholders
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Innovative and creative skills
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound knowledge and understanding of the NHS Constitution in relation to patient access and an ability to work across operational boundaries
- Specialist knowledge and considerable in-depth experience of EPR Design, Test, Delivery, and adoption of several Clinical Solutions, particularly in complex projects involving EPR related change within the NHS
- Specialist theoretical knowledge and expertise relating to all processes required in delivering several core EPR Clinical Solutions (specialised areas) including NHS processes and procedures, design, test, and adoption, and post implementation evaluation
- Expert knowledge of electronic patient record systems
- Advanced knowledge of the IT systems, tools or products that can be used to enable clinical work
- Evidence of current CPD
- Knowledge of Recruitment and Selection, Appraisal and other HR/People Management Policies and Procedures
- Understanding of service areas
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to post graduate degree level in a clinical specialty e.g. nursing, midwifery, Physiotherapy etc. or Business Administration/Change Management/ Health Informatics/Process Redesign or similar, or an equivalent level of knowledge gained through practical experience
- Clinical Registration
Desirable
- IT Service Management Qualification
- Project Management Qualification
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).
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).
