Job Description
Site Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust Town Salisbury Salary £50,952 - £57,349 a year per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 30/06/2024 23:59
Job overview
We are committed to developing and deploying an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) for Acute Hospital Alliance ( Royal United Hospital - Bath, Great Western Hospital , Swindon and Salisbury NHS Trust, and are excited to announce secondment or fixed term contract opportunities to join the programme as an EPR Workstream Lead.
We are looking for a team of people with either AHA - specific organisational knowledge and experience, or people with previous experience of implementing an EPR. Most important is your enthusiasm for digital, and you will receive the technical training required to be successful in your role. A team with a balance of EPR implementation experience and AHA(GWH, SFT and RUH) knowledge is the key to the programme's success.
We welcome applications from those who would like to join the programme team full time as well as those who would like to combine a fractional role in the team with work in their existing area. All internal staff interested in applying should gain agreement from their line manager first. Roles are available across AHA (GWH, SFT and RUH). Successful applicant (GWH, SFT and RUH will be able to remain within their home trust.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced Clinician or nurse with a drive to improve digitally, to lead centrally on this complicated workstream. Integrating devices will be a key piece of this activity alongside using the Millennium Module to standardise and stream line processes within the Critical Care areas across the 3 trusts. The role will support and represent peers and colleagues across all the relevant clinical workstreams that have an impact on the Critical Care processes. E.g, Medications management, Order communications.
Have you vision to lead this group on a transformational journey?
Working for our organisation
We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the Values of the organisation depending on where you are based: Service, Teamwork, Ambition, Respect (GWH), Person Centered and Safe, Professional, Responsive, Friendly, Progressive (SFT) and Everyone matters, working together, Making a difference (RUH).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role will be responsible for:
- Leading a central workstream in developing the processes and system design for their agreed area of scope.
- Coordinating workstream activities to ensure alignment across the 3 sites and other workstreams, identifying interdependencies and assigning mitigating plans where appropriate/required to ensure the plan remains on course for delivery within the agreed timeframe.
- Ensuring systems and processes of the new EPR and integrated care systems are embedded into operational and clinical This will require the postholder to have a detailed understanding of service requirements, benefits realisation opportunities afforded by the new EPR and be able to contribute to local and AHA policy and protocol development to ensure both service and implementation needs are met.
- Development of AHA Standard Operating Procedures and policies relating to the safe and accurate implementation of the new EPR.
- Influencing leadership at all levels to actively promote engagement around the Programme, utilising appropriate change tools.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Education to post-graduate diploma level or equivalent knowledge and experience
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Experience
- Significant experience of working in within the acute hospital environment, with clear experience within the allocated work stream
- Track record of internal stakeholder engagement
- Supervisory experience
- Experience of project management
- Experience of co-ordinating software testing
- A good understanding of the NHS, in particular the NHS modernisation agenda and a comprehensive knowledge of NHS system procedures and information flows.
- Knowledge of the use of information and information systems used in the NHS
Knowledge
- Excellent MS Office skills, especially proficiency with MS Excel
- Ability to undertake advanced keyboard use, including data input and system configuration
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills for a range of audiences, including stakeholder at all levels of the organisation
- Ability to provide sound judgement and give professional advice and support
- Demonstrable experience of understanding and acting upon highly complex information
- Process mapping and/or business analysis skill
- Understanding of change and management theory and process
We offer excellent benefits that help make SDH a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:-
- Holiday starting at 27 days plus Bank Holidays rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years for Agenda for Change staff
- Holiday entitlement for Medical and Dental staff starts at 27 days for Junior/Senior Clinical Fellows, Specialty Doctors and rises to 32 days after 5 years. Consultant entitlement starts at 32 days and rises to 34 days after 7 years
- An additional day's leave to celebrate your birthday (after 12 months)
- Access to a career average revalued earnings pension scheme
- Life assurance if a member of the pension scheme
- An extensive Health and Wellbeing offer to help you deal with life's challenges
- Exclusive deals and discounts websites saving you money on everyday purchases, treats for the family, eating out and utility bills for home
- Cycle to work scheme
- Uniform provided (where required)
- On site Day Nursery and Holiday Play scheme
- On site health and fitness club
- Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
We continue to encourage and support our staff to participate in the seasonal respiratory vaccination programme in order to protect themselves, colleagues and their patients.
GETTING TO WORK
We offer parking on site at Salisbury District Hospital, a daily charge applies. We encourage our staff to utilise other green methods of getting to work such as cycling or walking where possible, and our Trust is well connected through the bus services to the city centre and other areas.
OUR COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY
We are committed to making Salisbury an inclusive and welcoming place for every single staff member, regardless of who they are and where they come from. Equality sits at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure that all employees have equal opportunity to develop, to apply for promotions and to work flexibly.
The Trust actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, martial status and age.
OTHER INFORMATION
If this job requires you to have DBS check to enable you to properly fulfil the requirements of the job, on appointment, you will be required to replay the cost of obtaining a DBS check and this amount will be reclaimed in instalments from your salary. Many staff use the DBS update service at a cost of £13 per annum but you need to sign up for this via their website.
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure that your application reflects the knowledge, skills and experience required.
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