Job summary
- Main area
- Data Migration and Programme Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 18 months (Data Migration Lead for PTC - Children's Cancer Centre)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 196-COF10724-Y
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Education Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,755 - £72,293 per annum incl. HCA (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Data Migration Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Data Migration Lead
Role for 18 months to oversea Data Migration and access to data/systems required for the transition of care to Evelina PTC - Children's Cancer Centre
We are looking for experienced Data Migration Lead to join the Evelina PTC - Children's Cancer Centre Programme hosted by Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.
Important
This post requires extensive leadership and data/system migration experience leading data migration and system transformation programmes of work. Ideal candidate will have delivered data migration or technical change programmes for previous EPR implementations or system transitions, such as Epic to Epic or Cerner to Epic, within the NHS.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity for a Data Migration Lead to join the IT Clinical Systems Directorate to be responsible for leading the Data Migration work for the PTC – Children’s Cancer Centre including leading the planning, technical development, testing and implementation of the Data Migration approach.
This is an opportunity to lead a data programme to support the Epic/Digital transition of a specialist Children’s Cancer service into the Apollo Epic, whilst considering related digital solutions that are in place across multiple sites, supporting more than 50,000 staff, at GSTT, KCH and partner organisations.
This data migration role, that will work to the PTC - Epic/Digital Programme Manager, will be responsible for migrating >5k patient records, and associated archive data, from partner organisations at RMH and St George's.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust (GSTT) and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (KCH) are two of London’s largest and busiest teaching hospitals, with a long and proud history, international reputations for their speciality services, teaching and research excellence, and a strong profile of local services to local residents in south east London. Together the Trusts have an annual turnover of nearly £3bn and employ around 50,000 staff, with main GSTT sites at St Thomas’ Hospital and Guy’s Hospital, and main KCH sites at King’s College Hospital, Denmark Hill, the Princess Royal University Hospital, Bromley and Orpington Hospital.
The two Trusts share a Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) and a vision for digital services that are lean and agile, that maximise the benefits of a shared service operating model, and deliver the digital ambition for both Trusts. This ambition is supported by a forward-looking and strategic approach, and significant investment in a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) which works across both Trusts to transform the way technology and data is used across our services.
This role works within the IT Clinical System Directorate and works to the Head of Digital Training, Delivery and Transformation (who is the IT/Epic/Digital accountable lead for the PTC Programme).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are seeking an individual with a strong aptitude for technical programme delivery and complex stakeholder engagement to ensure design and implementation is in accordance with the clinical digital requirements and workflow specifications. Key experience includes:
· To lead Epic system data migration and Non-Epic system data migration (where confirmed in scope) to support transition of PTC to Evelina.
· Managing the day-to-day running of the data migration sub-workstreams dealing with the demands of various users.
· Management of data migration into Apollo Epic from partner organisations.
· Lead risk and issue management of data migration workstream, liaising with teams to support resolution across partner organisations, ITCS, clinical teams, infrastructure, networking and 3rd party suppliers.
· Monitoring of data migration sub-workstreams and to initiate action to resolve problems.
Key Deliverables
· Lead development and approval of Data Migration Strategy and Plan
· Lead the production of change plans that deliver agreed milestones and objectives.
· Design, facilitate and effectively lead data migration meetings with stakeholders; ensuring breadth in participation and a focus on action planning.
· Develop and maintain effective data migration reporting to the IT/Epic/Digital Working Group and PTC Programme board.
This roles will require Cross-site working, based at Education Centre (3 days on site minimum, 2 days WFH) with 2-4 days per month at partner organisation sites (e.g. Royal Marsden, GOSH, UCLH and St George’s).
Person specification
Qualifications/Education
Essential criteria
- Relevant Masters / MBA, equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience. Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) to practitioner level or equivalent Evidence of recent Continuing Professional Development.
- Project management qualifications: PRINCE2© Practitioner MSP© Practitioner or Certificate in PPM; or APM Certificated Project Manager; or PMI Project (PMP) or PMI Programme Professional (PgMP)
Desirable criteria
- ITIL Foundation qualification Relevant/significant leadership experience in the delivery of large scale configuration management
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of change and project methodologies and techniques
- Extensive knowledge of clinical and operational processes in healthcare setting
- Excellent understanding and track record of successful change and project management
- Use of advanced analytical and judgement skills
- Evidence of leading successful change projects and / or operational performance and improvement;
- Extensive experience in delivering System Transition and decommissioning projects across complex organisations including procurement, deployment, clinical engagement, testing and support model
- Extensive skills in developing and facilitating workshops and other engagement events that gather and incorporate the views of diverse stakeholders, managing conflict effectively
- Extensive project and change management experience in large complex organisations, including design, development, implementation and management of change in a multiple stakeholder environment.
- Extensive experience facilitating group discussions to design, plan and progress programmes and projects
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of technical solutions and digital workflows for Cancer, Pharmacy, and Children’s Services
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Work flexibly, prioritise workloads and resource them in response to changing demands
- Highly effective people and project management skills
- Excellent management skills including motivating and coaching staff
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to prioritise, meet deadlines and delegate effectively
- Ability to find innovative ways of problem solving or pre-empting problems
Desirable criteria
- Specialist in at least one of Lean Thinking; Six Sigma; BPR; or Systems Thinking
EDI
Essential criteria
- Commitment to partnership working, inclusion of a diverse workforce and service integration
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Summers
- Job title
- IT/Epic/Digital Programme Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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