Job Ref: IM&TS 161a
Salary Scale: Band 5 (£29,970 - £36,843 depending on experience and pro-rata)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
The EPR Maintenance Analyst will be responsible for the administration and maintenance for the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s Cerner Millennium. The successful candidate will be expected to use configuration management and assurance tools utilised for delivery, configuration data standards and the assurance of requests/maintenance tasks, data collection workbooks and configuration information tools. The EPR Maintenance Analyst will work alongside Cerner colleagues in quality control and assurance of the build completed by Cerner AMS. This role will also be expected to support other corporate downstream application systems maintained by OUH IM&T Services.
Information Management and Technology Services (IM&T Services) provide support to Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust users as well as to several other Health organisations across Oxfordshire. This involves supporting over 14,000 workstations and printers, circa 19,000 staff users of systems and around 1400 servers (over 90% virtual). During 2023, IM&T Services responded to 115,000 support requests and were involved in multiple projects.
The successful applicant will be expected to provide EPR maintenance support to the Care Records Service participating as required in the following: maintenance and advancement of the EPR maintenance and development workstreams, support the completion of associated project work, respond to and resolve incidents and service requests, provide support to users on a country-wide basis, support processes and develop strong working relationships with Cerner AMS, provide training to users as appropriate and develop and improve systemic approaches to ensure data quality.
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please viewOUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
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• Follow agreed procedures, responding to requests for support by identifying, registering and categorizing incidents.
• Provide prompt incident resolution or escalate as appropriate.
• Act as an effective interface between users and service providers, including external commercial suppliers where applicable. This interface includes documenting incidents, checking progress and ensuring all diagnostic information is provided for error resolution and incident analysis.
• Within own area of competence and following agreed procedures, investigate issues and other requests for support and determine the appropriate course of action.
• Use application management software and tools to collect agreed performance statistics.
• Within own area of competence, provide the correct response to requests for support by means of for example – developing work-arounds or site specific enhancements, reconfiguring systems, changing operating procedures, training users or operations staff, producing additional documentation, or escalating requests to systems development staff of software suppliers.
• Monitor application systems for which responsible, regularly scrutinizing reports produced by the applications, software, systems software or service delivery staff. In conjunction, note problems and identify performance trends.
• Liaise with systems development staff and/or software suppliers on the development of system enhancements to overcome known problems or further fulfil a users’ requirements.
• Assist in the system testing of platform specific versions of the software product(s), documenting faults and implementing resolutions and retesting to agreed standards.
• Investigate and reconcile violation reports and logs generated by automatic policing mechanisms.
• Assist users in defining their needs for new access rights and privileges, operating and administering physical and logical access controls.
This advert closes on Monday 20 Jan 2025
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