Head of Joint EPR Service Delivery CHFT, BTHFT & AFT

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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.

We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.

We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.

We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain's Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us. Find out more - Why Choose CHFT?

Our Future Plans

The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit https://future.cht.nhs.uk/

Job overview

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have a shared instance of Oracle Health Millennium Electronic Patient Record (EPR). Oracle Health is a market leading EPR and is revolutionising the way in which staff work by using technology to improve quality & patient safety, that will in turn help to provide the future of 'excellence in patient care' at both Trusts. This implementation programme is the first of its kind whereby two independent Trusts have worked together to develop and implement a single electronic software solution.

The jobholder will be responsible for leading and developing an Electronic Patient Record service delivery centre, including elements of operational management, performance monitoring and service improvement and development.

The jobholder will work with both Trusts' Directors of Informatics, their Chief Clinical and Nursing Informatics Officers and operational EPR leads to set the EPR roadmap and to deliver high quality, efficient services through delivery of:

Main duties of the job

The jobholder will work with both Trusts' Directors of Informatics, their Chief Clinical and Nursing Informatics Officers and operational EPR leads to set the EPR roadmap and to deliver high quality, efficient services through delivery of:
• Leadership to the Electronic patient records service delivery portfolio
• Execution, with other the Informatics and operational leaders, of the EPR roadmap
• Managing the service's finances
• Workforce planning to ensure that the right people with the right skills are in place.
• Rigorous performance and quality monitoring to deliver all the required best practice informatics operational standards.
• High quality operational and service management

Working for our organisation

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The postholder will be responsible for the leadership and management of the EPR team and establishing relationships with all three trusts to deliver the EPR service. They will be responsible for the management of budgets and chairing the EPR governance process. They will also be responsible for providing high quality, timely and proactive development of EPR within service constraints to keep up with the ambition of all organisations.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

Essential criteria

• Educated to post graduate diploma level or equivalent experience or training in specific specialist areas
• Additional specialist knowledge or training to master's level or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Management qualification

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Essential criteria

• Previous experience of working in the NHS,in a complex environment
• Experience in supervising or managing staff
• Experience in delivery an IT or EPR service
• Experience in annual planning and business planning processes
• Demonstrable experience of managing change
• Project management experience& programme
• Experience in performance management and business development
• Experience in requirements analysis, formal options assessment, and feasibility analysis
• Experience in designing, building, testing and deploying Information Systems within large highly-complex organisations
• Financial and budget management experience
• Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of application of relevant National Guidance e.g. National Service Frameworks, NICE etc
• Sound knowledge and understanding of the Trusts' objectives and priorities and the ability to work across organisational and operational boundaries
• Advanced knowledge of the IT systems, tools or products that can be used to enable clinical work
• Recruitment and Selection, Appraisal and other HR/People Management related training
• Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
• Understanding of what the NHS Constitution means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues.

Desirable criteria

• Policy development experience
• Advanced health informatics education
• Management Development training

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

Essential criteria

• Excellent planning and organisational skills using a systematic, thorough and logical approach
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills
• Negotiating and influencing skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Analytical skills
• Financial management skills and business acumen
• Ability to lead and manage a team of staff
• Ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
• Ability to manage, influence and achieve change
• Innovative and creative
• People management / leadership skills
• Keyboard skills
• IT skills - Word/Excel/PowerPoint, etc

Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that's why we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants.

Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter.

If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer.

You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £42.90, Standard £22.90 or Basic £22.90) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment.

CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients.

If you have any questions please contact ask.recruitment@cht.nhs.uk for assistance.

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Documents to download

• JD & PS Head EPR (PDF, 384.4KB)
• Job Description Appendix A (PDF, 259.2KB)