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United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

About
The United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH) is one of the largest trusts in the country. Through four main hospitals we provide a comprehensive range of hospital-based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological services to the 700,000 people of Lincolnshire.
We provide a wide range of healthcare services delivered by 8,600 highly trained staff and volunteers. Our services cost over £400m each year to provide and we invest around £18m each year in improving our clinical services by replacing and upgrading our medical equipment, modernising our estate and facilities and improving our information and technology infrastructure. In an average year, we treat more than 180,000 A&E patients, nearly half a million outpatients and almost 100,000 inpatients.
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- Address
- Recruitment Service
- Lincoln County Hospital
- Greetwell Road
- Lincoln
- Lincolnshire
- LN2 5QY
- Contact Number
- (01522) 597736
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EPR Tranche Design & Build Lead
Accepting applications until: 30-Jun-2025 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 30-Jun-2025 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Lincoln, with travel to other ULTH sites as required
- Cyfeiriad
- Greetwell Road
- Tref
- Lincoln
- Cod post
- LN2 5QY
- Major / Minor Region
- Lincolnshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 23 months (Secondment option may be available for existing employees of Lincolnshire Community & Hospitals Group, for 12 months initially and then possibility of extension to full duration as above.)
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Digital Transformation
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULTH.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULTH and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULTH team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The post holder will be responsible for leading the design and build of specified EPR modules, under their allocated tranche of the programme delivery plan.
The post holder will build and maintain strong relationships with the related clinical areas in the Trust and with the EPR supplier, Nerve Centre.
The post holder will work closely with the other Tranche Design & Build Leads, and the wider pool of Delivery Group Leads.
This role will include in-depth analysis of current working practices, process mapping and policy analysis, and coordinating others to carry out this activity too – with the principles of User-Centred Design (UCD) in mind. The post holder will lead and support on design and build, including testing and go-live activities.
The post holder will provide support to the EPR team to implement the Trust’s digital strategy through the lifecycle of the programme.
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The EPR Programme Team is responsible for ensuring the successful implementation of the new EPR system (NerveCentre). The postholder will play a key role in the implementation of the EPR across United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (ULTH). The postholder will provide leadership and practical support to digital and clinical workstreams to take forward improvements and new ways of working, enable successful service transition, drive operational change, and help realise the qualitative and quantitative benefits available with a fully integrated electronic patient record.
The post holder will work with the clinical teams to ensure alignment of priorities to achieve the overall programme plan and support staff to develop and improve the new EPR for all clinical services across the Trust – following the principles of User-Centred Design.
Improving patient safety, quality of care, patient experience and staff experience is an explicit priority rather than an assumption and needs to underpin all elements of the implementation and beyond.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.
This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.
The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
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Manage, co-ordinate and lead a team of Workstream Leads, Analysts and Subject Matter Experts, drawing on other expertise across the Programme as required.
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Assist with the delivery of the Trust’s new EPR system as part of a designated team and ensure the design integrity of that application.
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Provide regular progress reports and escalation of risks and issues to the Programme Manager as required
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Work in partnership with NerveCentre and EMAP DDC
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Work on several integrated areas to ensure a coordinated approach across all teams.
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Analyse and suggest ways to improve current workflows and working practices.
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Facilitate agreement for changes in working practices with appropriate stakeholders.
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Match agreed workflows with those already built into the supplier’s EPR system and/or configuring the supplier’s EPR system using configuration tools to tailor the system.
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Assist with testing of the systems to ensure it is safe, usable, secure, and robust.
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Work collaboratively with the stakeholders and the project team to assess the readiness of the organisation to implement change.
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Produce collateral to support new ways of working e.g., workflow and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
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Understand the links to other parts of the EPR system and external clinical systems, ensuring design and build of specified modules do not cause detrimental impact.
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Triage issues raised by workstream leads and stakeholders, identifying and implementing resolution in a timely manner.
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Configure the specified EPR modules as required to capture the required data sets for reporting, working closely with the Reporting Delivery Group Lead.
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Ensure that the workstream solutions continually deliver the clinical record to the highest standard.
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Support the Education and Training Delivery Group in revisions and updates as the design and build develops, or feedback is received from the trainers/testers
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Provide line management to allocated Analysts, setting objectives, conducting appraisals and encouraging their continual professional development.
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Champion the EPR workflows, making suggestions for improvements and embedding best practice.
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Provide expertise and support to other programme delivery groups and workstreams as required.
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Identify, log, manage and where required escalate risks and issues that affect the delivery of the allocated modules
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Responsible for ensuring that the design and configuration of their allocated EPR modules is safe and compliant with appropriate policy, guidelines and regulations, with the support of the Clinical Safety Officer.
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Attendance at appropriate supplier events to build and maintain up-to-date knowledge of new available features.
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Promote and engender change and clinical transformation within allocated areas utilising the EPR to deliver digital improvements in quality, safety and efficiency, in line with the Full Business Case Benefits statement.
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Support to Out of Hours work as needed to ensure the safe running of allocated modules and others, including but not limited to, at Go Live.
ULTH recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.
We are a People Promise exemplar site, for more information on the NHS People Promise - NHS England » Our NHS People Promise
As a responsible employer ULTH would encourage staff wishing to join the Trust to take up the COVID vaccination as this continues to remain the best line of defence against COVID19
Please note that we do not accept CVs.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULTH reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.
No DBS fees to pay: Successful candidates will have DBS applications applied for & paid by ULTH where applicable. There is no requirement to reimburse ULTH for this cost.
We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.
You are:
- A Service Leaver
- A Veteran
- A Military Reserve
- A Cadet Force Adult Volunteer
- Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated to master’s degree level in a relevant subject, or relevant management knowledge acquired through training and experience, equivalent to Level 7.
- In depth specialist knowledge of IM&T procedures acquired through degree or equivalent level
- Project Management Training or equivalent experience
- Change Management qualification or relevant experience
Meini prawf dymunol
- Ongoing personal and professional development
Previous Experiance
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Experience of working with a range of staff including clinicians, nursing and managers.
- Experience of implementing an EPR, or modules of an EPR
- Experience of successfully leading a project or programme delivery team
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of implementing NerveCentre modules
Skills
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Critical appraisal/analysis skills
- Proven negotiation and influencing skills.
- Evidenced Leadership skills.
- Ability to work independently within agreed timescales.
- Ability to work flexibly within a team.
- Knowledge of patient pathways in an acute trust.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Clinical background
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Ian Rushton
- Teitl y swydd
- EPR Programme Manager
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07388 387950
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