EPR Clinical Lead

Job summary
This role is in the The EPR Team, part of The Health Informatics Service hosted by CHFT.

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
The EPR Clinical Lead 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 Trust's 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 efficiency of the EPR team as well as horizon scanning and developing the clinical roadmap in the EPR.

Will work with CNIOs, CCIOs, Digital Clinical Specialists, Clinical Directors, Digital Operational Leads, Directorate managers and senior colleagues across the 3 Trusts, including peers in Supplier organisations to understand the service needs and develop plans in relation to development to reflect the needs of three organisations.

About us
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres 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. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities
The EPR Clinical Lead 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.

Will work with CNIOs, CCIOs, Digital Clinical Specialists, Clinical Directors, Digital Operational Leads, Directorate managers and senior colleagues across the 3 Trusts, including peers in Supplier organisations to understand the service needs and develop plans in relation to development to reflect the needs of both organisations.

The role will include oversight of the requesting, requirements gathering and development process and ensuring adequate capacity and demand management. Working with the Head of EPR the role will be required to balance general maintenance of the solutions with ongoing developments to ensure maximum efficiency of the EPR team as well as horizon scanning and developing the clinical roadmap in the EPR.

Person Specification
Experience & Expertise
Essential

• Previous experience of working in the NHS in a service area.
• Experience in supervising or managing staff underpinned by knowledge of HR, staff performance and workforce issues.
• Experience in electronic patient records support
• Experienced in developing work plans for a large team and prioritising workload
• Experience of having worked in a management/clinical leadership role within the NHS
• Experience in contributing to policy and service development
• Awareness of designing, building, testing and deploying Information Systems within highly complex organisations
• Evidence of building effective working relationships with clinical leaders, partner organisations and other stakeholders
• Policy development experience
• Experience for developing in a team orientated, collaborative environment
• Recent experience of working in a provider organisation with senior managers and clinicians.

Desirable

• Experience of managing change in both digital and clinical areas
• Budget management experience
• Previous experience on working on the design, development and implementation of new business processes within the context of a computer system implementation project;

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, AHP, Medical etc. or Business Administration/Change Management/ Health Informatics/Process Redesign or similar, or an equivalent level of knowledge gained through practical experience
• Clinical Registration with a professional body

Desirable

• IT Service Management Qualification
• Project Management Qualification
• CSO awareness with the completion of formal training in six months of starting in post

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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