Head of Joint EPR Service Delivery CHFT, BTHFT & AFT (NHS AfC: Band 8b) - Information Technolog[...]

Head of Joint EPR Service Delivery CHFT, BTHFT & AFT (NHS AfC: Band 8b) - Information Technology - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust – West Yorkshire

Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have a shared instance of Oracle Health Millennium Electronic Patient Record (EPR). Oracle Health is a market leading EPR and is revolutionising the way in which staff work by using technology to improve quality & patient safety, that will in turn help to provide the future of 'excellence in patient care' at both Trusts. This implementation programme is the first of its kind whereby two independent Trusts have worked together to develop and implement a single electronic software solution.

The jobholder will be responsible for leading and developing an Electronic Patient Record service delivery centre, including elements of operational management, performance monitoring and service improvement and development.

The jobholder will work with both Trusts’ Directors of Informatics, their Chief Clinical and Nursing Informatics Officers and operational EPR leads to set the EPR roadmap and to deliver high quality, efficient services through delivery of:

1. Leadership to the Electronic patient records service delivery portfolio
2. Execution, with other Informatics and operational leaders, of the EPR roadmap
3. Managing the service’s finances
4. Workforce planning to ensure that the right people with the right skills are in place
5. Rigorous performance and quality monitoring to deliver all the required best practice informatics operational standards
6. High quality operational and service management

The postholder will be responsible for the leadership and management of the EPR team and establishing relationships with all three trusts to deliver the EPR service. They will be responsible for the management of budgets and chairing the EPR governance process. They will also be responsible for providing high quality, timely and proactive development of EPR within service constraints to keep up with the ambition of all organisations.