Job summary
Employer heading
Head of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Digital Clinical System Team
Band 8b
Job overview
We are looking to appoint Maternity Cover for the Head of EPR to join our Digital Clinical System (DCS) Team.
East Cheshire NHS Trust and Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are jointly creating a new EPR, which is known locally as the Digital Clinical System (DCS).
Main duties of the job
This post will be responsible for developing and leading the ‘business as usual’ service. This will include the management of a federated support team across the two Trusts, ensuring there is a consistent approach to the configuration and integration with existing systems, adoption, and training delivery. The role will work closely with the supplier MEDITECH to fix problems and manage risks and the digital transformation leads for each organisation.
Working for our organisation
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). The Trust provides high quality planned and emergency care, cardiac, critical care, child health, maternity services and intermediate care at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
The Trust provides over 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff. A comprehensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools through our Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership.
We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.
At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Lead the build, test and release process for all system upgrades and enhancements including planned and emergency changes.
- Communicate with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to encourage behaviours that lead to greater uptake and more effective use of EPR. Ranging from formal complex, large group presentations to clinical and administrative stakeholders to build rapport and influence decisions.
- Communicate complex issues and opportunities to a range of stakeholders to build cases for change. This includes agreeing the requirements and writing business cases for packages of supplier software developments.
· Undertake regular horizon scanning of best practice and developments from other EPR implementations through regional and national forums including supplier forums such as the MEDITECH User Network (MUN)
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters Level in a relevant informatics subject or equivalent level of experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of NHS regulatory records governance.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of overall management responsibility for a complex digital solution.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a clinical setting.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to design meaningful, objective dashboards and reports and convey to developers for production.
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Ratcliffe
- Job title
- DCS Administration Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01270 904401
- Additional information
Lisa tends to work Monday to Thursday.
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