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Lead EPR Architect | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 15 March 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £70,417 - £81,138 per annum / pro rota for part time hours |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 April 2024 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 8TB |
| Company: | University Hospitals of Leicester |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6114802/358-6114802-COR |
Summary
The IM&T department at University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust is looking to recruit a Lead EPR Architect to join the team delivering our ground breaking, first of type electronic patient record in Leicester.
You will ensure the digitisation programme is fit for purpose, in line with prescribed national and global standards and meets the objectives of our ‘Leading in Healthcare, Trusted In Communities’ strategy.
Working closely with our strategic EPR supplier, you will lead the technical design of the trust’s digital transformation programme of multiple, complex and interconnected projects across our sites as we seek to become a HIMSS stage 7 hospital. We aim to deliver digital, data and technology capabilities as a key enabler for change across the trust, further strengthening the our positive and growing reputation as a leader in digital healthcare.
By working closely with our digital clinical leadership to develop and implement agreed standards and principles, you will ensure consistency in design and development of digital solutions and promote and deliver excellence in terms of the data infrastructure underpinning our platform.
You will provide guidance and direction to the teams delivering configuration and development within the EPR framework, you will ensure adherence with best practice and maximise value delivered from the platform.
To provide support, expertise and guidance to architecture, development and business change functions of the trust. Management of project based resources as required to deliver highly specialised activities relating to critical patient data migration and integration across systems, and setup and configuration of clinical functionality on the EPR platform.
To act as the subject matter expert with regards to healthcare records and patient data, build strategies and policies for the safe capture, handling and use of data to inform the delivery of care both in and out of hospital, and for operational decision making.
To push boundaries with respect to digital innovation, incorporating new and leading edge technologies and solutions into the trust's plans to support the delivery of our objectives.
Ensure sharing of patient records electronically across health and social care services is achieved in a compliant and strategically aligned manner.
Define and refine the principles and processes that guide systems selection and data management decisions across the organisation.
Act as a point of reference for project and strategic decision making in relation to applications, technology and data management. Ensure that the IT estate, new implementations and changes are compliant with relevant local and national policies and standards as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan.
Responsible for leading the development and design of local technical data management standards.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We have four primary goals:
• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
You will be responsible for working closely with senior clinicians and operational leads, technical delivery partners and strategy colleagues to ensure requirements are met, projects are delivered to the required quality and contribute to enhancing patient safety. Your role will be crucial to ensuring that we are able to safely decommission and replace around 150 legacy IT systems with our new, mobile first electronic patient record solution.
A key focus of the role will be to ensure our digital, data and technology plans are aligned to the wider transformation agenda, including standardisation and collaboration across the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland ICS, Leicester – Northampton provider collaborative and the wider East Midlands Acute Providers network.
To ensure the eHospital Programme is aligned to National and Local policies for achieving a digital hospital, improving digital maturity and achieving HIMSS EMRAM stage certification.
Support and inform the development of effective communication systems to ensure that highly complex elements of the eHospital programme are well understood by staff, patients and external partners ensuring all are informed and fully engaged.
Communicate highly complex and technical IT concepts to colleagues within and outside of IM&T with varying degrees of understanding, tailoring content and delivery appropriately according to the audience.
Digital Transformation
• Be an advocate and driver for service and business improvement via digital transformation.
• Act as the professional technical lead to the eHospital programme board. Provide information, advice and support across the organisation in order to facilitate the modernisation of services, ensuring that they are consistent with legislation, and agreed local and national IT, innovation and productivity strategies
• Enable improved business intelligence and reporting, ensuring that solutions are fit for research and analysis by design;
• Lead the development of robust business cases and investment plans aimed at delivery of the eHospital vision
• Rationalise our current systems and architecture to reflect the organisations objectives and strategy;
• Plan and monitor the consolidation of systems to ensure that clinical safety incidents do not occur during the decommissioning phase.
• Lead the development of an enterprise architecture, linked to the delivery of the IM&T strategy for the Trust that is “fit for purpose”, meets our strategic clinical and business requirements and is successfully delivered:
• Oversee the development and configuration processes associated with the delivery of the digital products, working closely with clinical digital leadership colleagues, ensuring development practices are in line with requirements and utilising the most appropriate resources, obtaining best value for the trust and to ensure that usability and meeting user needs are primary objectives.
• Inform and lead on the development of improvement approaches for the management, standardisation and use of data across the trust for informed decision making and ensure future proofing and structuring of data to enable generative AI and decision support initiatives.
• Contribute to development of architecture, development and configuration teams and processes to support all EPR activities across the trust.
Assurance
• Be accountable for, and ensure successful delivery of the technical design and quality aspects of the eHospital programme of work
• Provide expertise and guidance for workflow and configuration of the EPR platform including but not limited to Patient Administration, letters, clinical documentation and related aspects.
• Monitor relevant contracts to ensure they meet the requirements of legislation, Information Governance / GDPR, CQC, NHSE, Internal Audit and the NHSLA standards for Trusts.
• Ensure the ‘eHospital’ digitisation programme is fit for purpose and in line with prescribed national (e.g. HSSF/CareConnect/PRSB/cyber essentials plus) and global (e.g. FHIR/HL7/HIMSS EMRAM) standards.
• Work across and supervise projects and products comprising the ‘eHospital’ programme ensuring strategic fit and managing potential tensions between local organisation and ICS and provider collaborative objectives.
• Ensure requirements are met and projects delivered to the required level of quality, enabling reduction in reliance on paper processes and the value of digital health to our patients and staff is maximised.
• Provide integration design and guidance to ensure the components of the eHospital platform form a cohesive set of digital solutions for operational and clinical end users.
• Ensure the Managed Business Partner and other suppliers comply with the requirements of the Patient Safety standards defined in ISB0160 (formerly known as Data Set Change Notice 18/2009).
• Ensure that local implementation testing includes relevant and appropriate levels of clinical safety assessment.
• Ensure that product development processes are in line with appropriate recognised best practice (agile/waterfall) and adhered to by the development functions
• Provide ongoing guidance and direction for the creation of an appropriate support, optimisation and enhancement model with the objective of maximising usability of digital solutions for colleagues
IT Management
• Contribute to the effective prioritisation of IT activities in line with organisational and local health and care system priorities, and ensure that dependencies are understood and accounted for.
• Be the technical relationship manager for our key IT EPR partners, building on and developing partnerships to progress the trust’s digital maturity and ensure awareness of achievements is visible in industry and national digital health channels.
• Provide guidance and coaching to the IM&T Senior Management and programme delivery teams to ensure the consistent delivery of a high quality service through the provision of professional information related to enterprise architecture, applications management, integration, business intelligence and software development.
• Be an advocate for any Service Provider/Technology Partner within UHL;
• Provide the CMIO, CNIO, Chief Technology Officer and CIO with information and recommendations in relation to the Trust Digital, Data & Technology Strategy and its successful delivery;
• Manage the IT budget, in relation to the Technical Architecture and development teams, including pay and non-pay expenditure, providing regular reports to the Chief Technology Officer / CIO and attending financial planning and review meetings as appropriate.
• Work with our partners to agree and develop IT Policies, ensuring they are developed and delivered across the organisation in line with legislation, strategies and practical requirements.
Health and Care System Architecture
• Ensure that the local programme of work is aligned to the Integrated Care System (ICS) strategy for record sharing and consumption of health and social care data utilising interoperability standards
• Represent the trust at regional initiative meetings and be the lead technical advisor to the LLR Shared Care Record programme.
• Act as the meeting chair or Trust’s IT representative in working groups and steering groups across the organisation and regional networks with the aim of integrating the NHS IT agenda throughout all aspects of business and service development.
This advert closes on Monday 1 Apr 2024