Job summary
- Main area
- IT Services
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7292155
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
IT Clinical Systems Configuration Specialist (Band 6)
NHS AfC: Band 6
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Please read the attached AI statement prior to submitting any application
Job overview
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is working with partners across the care community to deliver a unique, cross care setting, real time, patient centric electronic health record that will improve the quality and delivery of care to the patient.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the IT Clinical Systems Team at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 IT Clinical Systems Specialist. The team you would be joining supports the services of ANHSFT and also our wider Place partners such as Bradford Teaching Hopsital Trust in their ongoing use and development of TPP SystmOne for their clinical and operational teams.
The primary project for the successful candidate will be to act as the SystmOne Specialist in our Trust’s move to and ongoing support of SystmOne as the Primary Record
Main duties of the job
· Work as part of the IT Clinical Systems Team supporting the ongoing use and development of TPP SystmOne and ICE for ANHSFT services and wider Place partners such as BTHFT.
Ensure effective provision and communication of complex system requirements, corporate issues, and analysis through comprehensive written reports as well as negotiate resolutions primarily with Trust management, external system suppliers and within the Project and Management Team.
· Provide specialist support and advice on systems specification, configuration and requirements, functionality, implementation, and roll out across the organisation to support all aspects of care, service planning, policy-making and accountability.
· Involved in the design and build of new services and operational practices.
· Review existing systems and processes and ensure still fit for purpose.
· Work effectively between bespoke projects, the Integrated Health Record Programme and its requirements as well as ‘business as usual’ systems changes and developments.
· Provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information; agreement or co-operation required; present complex and sensitive information to large groups
· Coordinate the development and adaptation of information system(s) to meet stakeholder requirements whether that be by the Clinical IT Systems Team or liaising with external third party system supplier
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details on this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents.
Person specification
Education/Training/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent or experience in an IT service environment with evidence of relevant skills equivalent to Degree level
- SystmOne Train the Trainer
- Knowledge and experience of using specialist IT electronic healthcare record systems, partculalrly TPP SystmOne and CliniSys ICE
- Show evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Microsoft Office qualifications – MOS expert level or ECDL Advanced
- PRINCE2 Practitioner (or equivalent project management methodology)
- ISEB IT Service Management (ITIL V3) Foundation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of managing comprehensive patient systems to support the provision of patient care
- SystmOne usage experience
- Relevant experience within a health care setting
Desirable criteria
- Project Delivery experience
- Previous experience of supporting change within clinical environments
- Previous experience of producing training material
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tony Bates
- Job title
- IT Clinical Systems Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 652511
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