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.

Proposed Interview date: 20th December 2023

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).

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

Employer details

Employer name

Barts Health NHS Trust

Address

Mile end Hospital

London

E1 4DG

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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