Hive Outpatient Workstream Lead

As the Outpatient Workstream Lead, you’ll lead the teams responsible for Outpatient services documentation, the Eye and Dental Hospitals and the Transplant Service to name some of them. You'll be a key enabler in supporting work across Outpatient transformation and supporting MFT's key priorities of improving productivity in this area.

This is a wide-ranging, key strategic role that draws on project management skills, collaboration, stakeholder management and clinical knowledge. As you coordinate your own workstream, you’ll collaborate with other workstream leads to make sure we’re implementing our software consistently and effectively.

You’ll also be an ambassador for the Hive project and a key driver of our digital strategy. It’s a chance to take on considerable responsibility in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and contribute towards guidance and standards across the Hive team.

Be the link between leading-edge medical software and an outstanding NHS Trust.

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT), is the largest acute Trust in the UK, with over 28,000 staff that care for over million patients a year. We’ve gone live with an unprecedented clinical transformation programme that is revolutionising the way we work. The Hive System (powered by Epic) is now the digital solution for all 10 Hospitals across MFT. Enabling a single patient record across our Trust. Now that we are live the role is about stablising and running the system, overseeing developments upgrades and planning sprints, whilst working with the Trust to optimise the system use for with the Outpatient Services.

Required skills and experience

You should also have experience in analysing business and technical requirements or even training in Epic software. Strong leadership skills, IT literacy and a keen sense of strategy are also essential.

Great benefits

Join us at the forefront of change and you’ll enjoy plenty of opportunities, together with all the benefits you can expect as an NHS employee. Alongside a competitive salary, you can expect a comprehensive benefits package including generous holiday entitlement, childcare support, flexible working and an NHS pension.

Personal development is important to us at MFT, and you’ll also be able to move across different departments within the trust while taking advantage of quality training and learning schemes.

Diversity & Inclusion at MFT

At MFT, our ambition is to be the best place to work for individuals from every background. That’s why we’re committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce. This way, we can create a truly inclusive environment and make sure our staff represent the communities we serve.

You will be overall responsible for the delivery of system configuration, build and testing and will need to manage these to tight deadlines and delivery. You will also be responsible for the day to day running of your Workstream systems including the service management, change requests and all other system maintenance.

The Workstream lead will be leading and co-ordinating the work of their allocated workstreams They will work with the other members of the Hive EPR and clinical and operational management teams to ensure a consistent approach to the implementation of the trust's digital and transformation strategy, they will be required to work across the governance processes within Hive and Informatics to deliver digital services for the Hospitals, MCS and LCO.

This will involve providing guidance, ensuring compliance around information standards and quality across the workstreams and to the wider organisation. They will work in a complex and multi-disciplinary environment and need to be able to act with minimum guidelines whilst setting standards for others. They will need to thrive in a fast-paced environment and be adaptable to changing priorities.

The Workstream lead will use expert clinical, administrative knowledge to support and guide the team in making appropriate decisions when working with stakeholders to configure best practice workflows and designing clinical capture tools, that configuration and workflows align with reporting and clinical audit requirements. This will involve working closely with the Transformation and Operational teams and SME’s.

The Workstream lead will represent the Hive & Systems team providing assurance and guidance around status of the programme. They will act as an ambassador for the teamat all times.