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Job summary

Main area
Digital Services
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-RFL-5653600-A
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Cross Site working - Base: Royal Free Hospital
Town
London
Salary
£91,317 - £104,122 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 8d Head of Patient Systems

NHS AfC: Band 8d

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

The Royal Free London is one of the largest Hospital Groups in the NHS and was one of NHS England’s Global Digital Exemplars in 2018.  RFL has continued to invest in digital services, rolling out Cerner Millenium across the Group in 2021 and with its Chase Farm Hospital being one of only a few NHS hospitals to achieve HIMMS EMRAM Level 7 in 2022.  RFL now operates one of the largest EPR shared domains in the NHS with West Herts Teaching Hospitals and continues to roll out the latest Oracle Cerner functionality and is supporting the national direction of expanding EPR shared domains.

You’ll be leading a multi-disciplinary team providing a range of support and development services including the Oracle Health Cerner Millenium platform and many other clinical systems, as well as supporting the digital transformation programme in North Central London and across London.  You’ll also be responsible for the delivery of integration services and system access including the Registration Authority (smart card) service. You’ll be managing a team of around 35 staff, plus the Cerner Application Management Servicer (AMS), as well as controlling a sizeable budget.

The role has hybrid working, based at the Royal Free Hospital with travel to other sites as required from time to time.

 

Main duties of the job

Please see attached job description and person specification for further details and visit the RFL website

 

 




Working for our organisation

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation  Trust mission is to be world class in terms of healthcare treatment, clinical research and teaching excellence.

We aim to deliver and develop leading local healthcare in all three of our hospitals, to improve lives and help people thrive.

 We measure our progress against our four governing objectives: excellent health outcomes, outstanding experience of care, be a sustainable organisation and outstanding experience for our people.  Ensuring staff are cared for and valued is a key part of the RFL.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further details and visit the RFL website.

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Post graduate degree (or equivalent combination of education and experience
  • A relevant technical or professional qualification, e.g. ITIL
Desirable criteria
  • A management qualification
  • Membership of relevant professional body or association

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial experience of managing full application services lifecycle, including systems design, specification, development, data transformation and migration, unit and integrated testing, implementation, staff management and post live applications support.
  • Experience of managing and developing Cerner Millennium
  • Experience of managing Third Party Providers delivering outsourced Application Management Services
  • Experience of leading the management of change – organisational, business, technical.
  • Experience of delivering programmes and projects using structured programme and project management approaches
  • Experience of leading, managing, developing and motivating teams of skilled professionals.
  • Experience of defining application products and solutions using structured approaches and for development.
  • Experience of supporting a broad range of patient application systems
  • Experience of developing and managing web-based, customer facing websites with a highly transactional database backend.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of working within an NHS organisation.
  • Experience of managing internal and external suppliers and negotiating contractual requirements for the delivery of application packages and changes to meet product and service delivery requirements.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Joanna Smith
Job title
Interim Chief Digital Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07976 407829

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