EPR Clinical Lead

Job description

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 effiiciency 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.

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.

UK Registration

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

Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hybrid (Home and Trust sites) Calderdale and Huddersfield Hospital, Bradford Teaching Hospitals, Airedale General Hospital

Unit 13 Ainley Bottom, Ainley Bottom, Ainley Industrial Estate

Elland

HX5 9JP

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk

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