Head of EPR Applications

2 weeks ago


Mansfield Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals are at the beginning of our EPR journey and will be selecting suppliers during Q3 2024/25. The EPR programme will ultimately transform the future of healthcare delivery across our hospitals for the benefit of the patients we serve.

We are seeking Head of EPR Applications to join us and support our EPR journey. This is an exciting role and the successful candidate will be able to shape and support our journey whilst working closely with other departments across the Trust.

The Head of EPR Applications will report to the Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer/EPR Programme Director and will be a senior member of the EPR Programme team, working alongside the Head of Operational Change, Head of People and Head of Technical to deliver a successful EPR implementation.

You will be responsible for developing and delivering an application strategy for the organisation, centred around the delivery of the EPR. You will lead the successful configuration and testing of the new EPR, migration and coordination of legacy applications, preparation for future state processes and ways of working and developing successful relationships with the system suppliers.

Working as a key member of our EPR Programme team you will drive service improvement, enhance digital maturity and lead transformational change across our hospitals to deliver successful and wide engagement with our EPR programme, ensuring that the intended benefits of the programme can be fully realised.

Main duties of the job


  • Ensuring that the scope of all workstream modules and integrated areas are maintained in line with the EPR timeline and dedicated application standard operating procedures.
  • Ensuring that workstreams are not developed in isolation and dependencies and workflow of the design are managed appropriately with clinical and operational leads.
  • Ensuring that the EPR applications team are motivated, informed and deliver to programme milestones, managing risks and dependencies appropriately.
  • Ensuring that the future state EPR delivery team meets the services of the organisation.
  • Ensuring that an application strategy and roadmap is continually developed and managed proactively.

About us

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

We would love you to join us.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • Educated to master's level in relevant IT related discipline or equivalent experience
  • Postgraduate management qualification or demonstrable skills in management gained through experience.
  • Evidence of continuing education and development

Desirable


  • PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner Course

Experience

Essential


  • Significant experience in applications
  • Significant experience in leading large teams
  • Experience of managing IT suppliers
  • Experience of writing complex policies and business cases.

Knowledge

Essential


  • Extensive knowledge of clinical, administrative and/and operational workflows and processes within a hospital environment
  • NHS experience and understanding of the NHS Financial Framework
  • Experience of managing complex, strategic projects or areas of complex working practices
  • Advanced knowledge of all Microsoft Office packages especially Excel
  • Experience of managing, developing, and recruiting staff.
  • Knowledge of NHS Information Standards and their application
  • Advanced knowledge of Healthcare Clinical/PAS IT systems

Desirable


  • Knowledge of Lean & 6 sigma analysis techniques
  • Knowledge of Data Protection Act, GDPR & Information Governance

Skills

Essential


  • Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
  • Ability to manage and deliver to deadlines and within resources often against conflicting priorities
  • Very well-developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams, and have them understand the Trust's and personal performance expectations.
  • Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create conditions for successful partnership working
  • Ability to present at senior meetings and clearly articulate issues and ideas in a positive way engaging the confidence of colleagues and senior managers/ Executives.
  • Ability to confidently challenge and respond to challenge at senior meetings in a constructive way

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton-in-Ashfield

NG17 4JL

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