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You will be working alongside the EPR Suppliers and Trusts' Training Team, managing the training function for the EPR Programme. 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 are recruiting for Workstream Leads across key areas including: Clinical Documentation, Patient Administration (outpatients/inpatients), Maternity, Reporting, Order Comms, EPMA, Clinical Documentation, and many more - please see JD.
Main duties of the job
The Workstream Lead will be responsible for the delivery of the workstream, playing a key role in the implementation of the new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system across Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire Acute Healthcare Alliance. We are seeking an individual from a clinical (Nursing / Medical / AHP) or operational/Technical background with experience in managing a complex body of work, operational insight, and programme management skills to join our team.
The postholder will ensure appropriate planning and support is in place to enable successful service transition, drive operational change whilst removing unwarranted variation across the 3 organisations. This includes providing practical support to both the wider Implementation Team and clinical teams across the Trusts and sharing functionality and anticipated configuration of the new EPR and how operational processes could align. There will be an expectation to drive an ongoing cycle of process improvement, continually identifying areas of opportunity for development and work with appropriate teams to implement system improvement. The postholder will also work closely with the Local workstream leads and with senior clinical teams to ensure alignment of goals and priorities to achieve successful implementation of the new EPR, working as a liaison between clinical and operational service workstreams, various IT Teams and the system suppliers - Oracle Health and 3rd Party.
About us
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).
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role will be responsible for:
1. Leading a central workstream in developing the processes and system design for their agreed area of scope.
2. 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.
3. Ensuring systems and processes of the new EPR and integrated care systems are embedded into operational and clinical practice. 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.
4. Development of AHA Standard Operating Procedures and policies relating to the safe and accurate implementation of the new EPR.
5. Influencing leadership at all levels to actively promote engagement around the Programme, utilising appropriate change tools.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Education to post-graduate diploma level or equivalent knowledge and experience.
2. Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable
1. Project management qualification.
Experience
Essential
1. Significant experience of working in within the acute hospital environment, with clear experience within the allocated work stream.
2. Track record of internal stakeholder engagement.
3. Supervisory experience.
4. Experience of project management.
Desirable
1. Experience of co-ordinating software testing.
2. A good understanding of the NHS, in particular the NHS modernisation agenda and a comprehensive knowledge of NHS system procedures and information flows.
3. Knowledge of the use of information and information systems used in the NHS.
Knowledge
Essential
1. Excellent MS Office skills, especially proficiency with MS Excel.
2. Ability to undertake advanced keyboard use, including data input and system configuration.
3. Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills for a range of audiences, including stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
4. Ability to provide sound judgement and give professional advice and support.
5. Demonstrable experience of understanding and acting upon highly complex information.
Desirable
1. Process mapping and/or business analysis skills.
2. Understanding of change and management theory and process.
Employer details
Employer name
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
GWH, SFT and RUH
Swindon, Salisbury and Bath
SN3 6BB
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