Job summary
Employer heading
Patient Systems Support (ePMA, Patientrack)
Band 5
Job overview
The delivery and support of digital technology at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is fundamental in enabling staff to provide excellent and safe patient care.
The Trust has invested significantly in digital technology and this is an exciting opportunity for a Patient Systems Support role to be part of the patient systems team.
The successful candidate will be part of the Patientrack/ EPMA Team.
The post will be supporting the development, testing, training and continued roll out of Patientrack and ePMA (Medchart), which are two of the Trusts key clinical electronic patient record systems
Would you like to increase your existing knowledge of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust’s electronic patient systems, develop specialist patient system skills and be part of a team providing excellent customer service to end users across the HDFT organisation?
Main duties of the job
Patient Systems Support ( Patientrack and ePMA Team).
The Patientrack, ePMA, Team are responsible for the training, administration, management and further development of key clinical systems:
- Patientrack: Is the electronic observation capture solution used by the Trust.
- ePMA - Is the electronic Prescribing and Administration of medication solution.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a growing team, providing an excellent service to our end users. This role will be both trainer and systems support in a team that provides knowledge, development and support to system users.
The successful post-holder will be based at Harrogate District Hospital and it is likely that you will sometimes work from home to support teams and systems users with various remote working solutions.
You will be able to demonstrate a defined track record of patient/clinical systems support and promoting the importance of high quality data integrity to inform effective decision making. Previous experience of Patientrack and ePMA would be desirable.
Working for our organisation
At Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust we provide 'outstanding' care to both our patients and our staff. We support staff through benefits, health and wellbeing initiatives and opportunities for personal and professional development.
- An inclusive and supportive culture - our Trust encourages staff to bring their whole selves to work and active Staff networks identify areas for improvement.
- Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise our staff with our Making a Difference, Team of the Month Awards & Colleague Recognition Awards
- Employee Support and wellbeing - we have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast track physiotherapy service for employees.
- Staff Benefits - We have a range of staff benefits and schemes to support staff health, engagement, wellbeing and inclusion.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Patient Systems Teams are specialist multi skilled information professionals responsible for the administration, support, management, training and further development of the Trusts Patient and Information systems, such as PCS, eRS, Ascom, Dragon Medical (Dragon Medical Workflow Manager and Dragon Medical One) Endosoft, Patientrack, EPMA (Medchart), ICE, SystmOne and WebV, used by teams across the acute and community based services.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, customer focussed individual to join the Patient Systems Team and support both business-as-usual and ongoing projects. You will provide specialist knowledge and support to system users, be committed to service delivery and continual customer focussed improvement.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to diploma level or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Training qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of comprehensive patient systems to support the provision of patient care
Desirable criteria
- Previous NHS experience
- Previous e-RS experience
- Previous DMWM experience
- Previous Patientrack experience
- Previous ePMA experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Customer service skills
- Comprehensive verbal and written communication skills
- Training Skills
- Interpersonal skills including the ablity to influence, persuade and motivate
- Knowledge of systems process and administration
Desirable criteria
- Change management skills
- Knowledge of NHS data definitions and data standards
- Systems training programme development skills
- Knowledge of data validation and quality assurance systems
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Judith Vose
- Job title
- Patient Systems Support (ePMA/Patientrack)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01423 554600
- Additional information
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