EPR Development Team Manager

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Oxford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an EPR Development Team Manager to lead a specialist team. You will oversee development, configuration and testing of EPR systems, ensuring clinical and non-clinical needs are met and upgrades are supported.

The role requires strong leadership, staff management experience and excellent communications. You will contribute to the Digital Programme and provide operational support for Millennium users across OUH.

Qualifications

• Ability to prioritise and manage multiple IT projects.
• Proven ability to work under pressure in a demanding environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management.
• Strong interpersonal and team leadership skills.
• Experience in motivating and developing staff.
• Significant management experience in complex IT projects and databases.
• Strategic planning within a specialised IT domain.
• Proven workload planning in uncertain scenarios and outcomes.
• Good understanding of Cerner Millennium functionality and development.
• Broad knowledge across IT areas including software development and maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the EPR development team within Digital Services.
• Provide leadership and line management for configuration, testing and upgrades.
• Coordinate security, documentation and quality standards for systems.
• Support operational delivery of Millennium EPR and digital programme activities.

Skills

Prioritisation

Working under pressure

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Team motivation

Staff management

IT project experience

Strategic planning

Workload planning

Cerner Millennium knowledge

Software development understanding

Job description

We are looking for an EPR Development Team Manager to lead and develop our specialist team within Digital Services. You will provide leadership and line management to the team, overseeing the development, configuration and testing of EPR systems ensuring that systems and processes meet the needs of both clinical and non-clinical services. The role includes managing incidents, maintaining effective configuration controls, supporting system upgrades and ensuring that appropriate security, documentation and quality standards are maintained., The successful candidate will be an organised and proactive leader with experience of managing staff and working with complex IT systems. Excellent communication, problem-solving and stakeholder-management skills are essential along with a strong understanding of software development, testing and configuration management. This is an excellent opportunity to lead a specialist team and support the continued development of digital patient systems across the Trust. The successful applicant will play a significant role in providing operational support for users of the Electronic Patient Record (Millennium) as well as contributing to project support activities to enable the continued delivery of our Digital Programme.

• Ability to prioritise
• Ability to work under pressure
• Thrives in a changing environment, Excellent communications skills, both written and oral
• Good interpersonal and team skills
• Ability to motivate subordinates and colleagues
• Staff management and development experience
• Equivalent experience working with increasing complex IT projects corporate business-critical database systems
• Proficient in strategic planning within own specialised area of competence
• Proven ability to plan workloads where there are several "unknowns" and to manage the outcomes, Excellent understanding of Cerner Millennium functionality and development
• Has a comprehensive knowledge of several IT areas, including software development and maintenance, Significant management experience within own area of expertise
  Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence., Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel., Sexual Safety Charter: In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment. If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.