Front door Local Workstream Lead inSwindon, inSwindon, PUBLISHED
TUE 5 NOV 2024
The role emphasises the importance of driving operational change, minimizing variation in services, and ensuring effective collaboration between clinical teams and IT resources, including suppliers like Oracle Health. The Lead will need to have a deep understanding of service requirements and be committed to identifying opportunities for process improvement while contributing to policy and protocol development. Candidates are encouraged to express their specific areas of interest and experience related to the various workstreams outlined in the job description when applying.
The EPR is about bringing all patient information together, enabling us to hold a single Trust-wide hospital record for each patient, helping us work together to improve our services.
We are committed to developing and deploying an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) for Acute Hospital Alliance ( Royal United Hospital - Bath, Great Western Hospital , Swindon and Salisbury NHS Trust, and are excited to announce secondment or fixed term contract opportunities to join the programme as an EPR Workstream Lead at a local level.
We are looking for a team of people with AHA - specific organisational knowledge and experience.We are looking for talented, enthusiastic and driven individuals. Most important is your enthusiasm for digital, and you will receive the technical training required to be successful in your role.
We are recruiting for Workstream Leads across key areas including: Clinical Documentation, Patient Administration (outpatients/inpatients), Maternity , Reporting, Order Comms, EPMA, Clinical Documentation and many more- please see JD.
We welcome applications from those who would like to join the programme team full time as well as those who would like to combine a fractional role in the team with work in their existing area.
All internal staff interested in applying should gain agreement from their line manager first. Roles are available across AHA (GWH, SFT and RUH). Successful applicant (GWH, SFT and RUH will be able to remain within their home trust.
When submitting your application, please state which areas of the programme listed above you have experience and interest in.
The Workstream Lead will be responsible for the delivery of the workstream, playing a key role in the implementation of the new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system across Bath, Swindon and Wiltshire Acute Healthcare Alliance. We are seeking an individual from a clinical (Nursing / Medical / AHP) or operational background with experience in managing a complex body of work, operational insight, and programme management skills to join our team.
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The postholder will ensure appropriate planning and support is in place to enable successful service transition, drive operational change whilst removing unwarranted variation. This includes providing practical support to both the wider Implementation Team and clinical teams across the organisation and sharing functionality and anticipated configuration of the new EPR and how operational processes could align. There will be an expectation to drive an ongoing cycle of process improvement, continually identifying areas of opportunity for development and work with appropriate teams to implement system improvement. The postholder will also work with senior clinical teams to ensure alignment of goals and priorities to achieve successful implementation of the new EPR, working as a liaison between clinical and operational service workstreams, various IT Teams and the system suppliers Oracle Health and 3rd Party.The Local Workstream Lead will be responsible for leading the future state design on their site, coordinating their team of change partners to work with the supplier and clinical and operational transformation leads to design the clinical configuration, facilitating updates or development of standard operating procedures for the new processes developed for an agreed Cerner EPR module, leading to a successful implementation of the EPR deployment.
The role will be responsible for leading a workstream in developing the processes and system design for their agreed area of scope.
Coordinating workstream activities to ensure alignment with other workstreams, identifying interdependencies and assigning mitigating plans where appropriate/required to ensure the plan remains on course for delivery within the agreed timeframe.
Ensuring systems and processes of the new EPR and integrated care systems are embedded into operational and clinical working. This will require the postholder to have a detailed understanding of service requirements, benefits realisation opportunities afforded by the new EPR and be able to contribute to local and Trustwide policy and protocol development to ensure both service and implementation needs are met.
Development of Standard Operating Procedures and Trust policies relating to the safe and accurate implementation of the new EPR.
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