Application Analyst

Birmingham Women's and Children's Hospital and Charity; Sutton Coldfield; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in Sutton Coldfield is seeking an experienced application analyst to optimize and support the Taurus EPR system. You will work closely with clinicians and IT teams to implement, maintain, and enhance applications that improve patient care. Epic certification is essential, and the role includes analyzing workflows and ensuring best practices in system configurations. This position offers an excellent opportunity to contribute to world-class health care services in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Must have certification in at least one Epic service area or working towards it.
• Experience in analysing and documenting local workflows is required.

Responsibilities

• Support analysing and documenting local workflows and reporting requirements.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into system configuration.
• Ensure system configuration aligns with best practices across patient pathways.
• Provide workflow solutions based on current business practices.
• Support user testing efforts and manage testing activity.

Skills

Epic certification

Workflow analysis

Data collection

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

Key Information

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS DO NOT NEED TO REAPPLY

Epic certification is a requirement for this role

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Taurus EPR team powered by Epic as an application analyst.

As a Taurus application analyst, you’ll play a vital role in optimising and supporting our Taurus electronic patient record (EPR) system. You’ll work closely with clinicians, department leaders, and IT teams to implement, maintain, and improve Taurus applications that support safe and efficient patient care.

Have a certification in an application module in at least one Epic service area or working towards gaining certification.

Responsibilities

• Support with the analysing and documenting of local workflows, data collection and reporting requirements.
• Works with stakeholders to translate their requirements into system configuration under the guidance of the Senior Analyst.
• Ensure that the system is configured to meet new ‘best practice’ ways of working, in order to achieve benefits across the whole patient pathway and not just within each module.
• Apply Epic build and design knowledge to analyse current business practices to provide the recommended workflow solutions.
• Support on designated integrated areas (such as testing, printing, business continuity planning) to ensure a coordinated approach across all application teams.
• Work with the team and stakeholders to solve problems and challenges in the workflows and system build that have previously not been encountered by Epic.
• Support the planning, designing, and execution of user testing efforts and ensures module testing activity is completed, tracked and is consistent with published deadlines.

About the Trust

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world‑class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world‑leading neo‑natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family‑centred care.

Birmingham Children’s Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women’s Hospital is one of two dedicated women’s hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0‑25 years old.

Our Commitment

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Contact

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Courtney Adragna‑Nolan
Job title: Taurus Outpatients Lead Analyst
Email address: [e-mail]