Application Analyst (AVT)

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals; The Wells; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a role focused on EPR (Cerner) and related clinical systems. You will collaborate with clinicians and healthcare professionals to develop and improve systems, ensuring robust testing and documentation.

You will also support training activities, create guideline documents, and act as a specialist source of system information for end users across clinical and non-clinical staff. The role emphasizes ICT-enabled digital strategy delivery.

Qualifications

• In-depth understanding of EPR (Cerner) and other clinical systems supported by ICT.
• Liaise with Clinicians, Healthcare Professionals and non-clinical staff during system development.
• Provide application support and assist Training Team with clinical system training.

Responsibilities

• Liaise with Clinicians and other Healthcare Professionals when developing EPR and other clinical systems supported by ICT.
• Receive complex clinical information and use to develop EPR in partnership with the applications team.
• Support the Clinical Development Team to ensure testing and documentation for system developments.

Skills

Cerner EPR

Clinical systems

Training

Data quality

Tools

DictateIT

Document management system

Job description

The post holder will be required to work as part of the Clinical Programme Team with joint working with the wider Digital Team. This role requires an indepth understanding of the EPR (Cerner) applications and other clinical systems (specifically DictateIT) supported by ICT to enable the development of these systems to support the Trusts' Digital strategy. The post holder will need to liaise with Clinicians, Healthcare Professionals and non-clinical staff when developing clinical systems. This will include providing application support and supporting the Training Team with the delivery of clinical system training.

• To liaise with Clinicians and other Healthcare Professionals when developing EPR system and other clinical systems supported by ICT
• To receive complex clinical information and use to develop the EPR accordingly in partnership with the applications team
• To support the Clinical Development Team to ensure sufficient and accurate testing (with associated documentation) is provided for system developments
• To develop guideline documents, training documents, policies and procedures to support the use of EPR and other clinical systems supported by ICT
• To be a source of specialist system information for Doctors, Nurses and other Health Care Professionals who may use EPR and other clinical systems supported by ICT
• To liaise with other system teams to agree appropriate development issues
• To understand and apply the database structure in relation to system development
• Develop paper forms for system downtime
• Undertake data quality tasks to ensure that EPR and other clinical systems supported by ICT is accurately populated
• Apply clinical background to support in the development of EPR and other clinical systems supported by ICT
• To analyse user requirements and create system templates accordingly on an on-going basis
• To support the end-users on the use of the document management system

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve. The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.