OneEPR Enterprise Architect

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK healthcare trust is seeking an experienced professional for a senior technical role in IT Infrastructure services. The position involves designing architectural models aligned with business strategies and ensuring efficient management of IT services. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of ITIL processes and possess leadership capabilities to manage external collaborations. This role emphasizes enhancing user experience and patient care through effective IT solutions.

Benefits

On-site Nursery

On-site Wellness Centre

Staff networks including LGBTQ support

Responsibilities

• Designing architectural models ensuring alignment with business strategy.
• Driving common approaches across enterprise architecture.
• Executing ITIL processes like Change and Release Management.
• Leading enterprise architecture technologies with external stakeholders.
• Monitoring application performance and ensuring user experience.

Job description

Role Overview

Play a leading senior technical role in the provision of effective, efficient and fully integrated IT Infrastructure services that maximise their availability and integrity for end-users and optimise the value gained by the Trust from its investment in IT. This will be achieved by:

• Designing multiple architectural models with varying complexities ensuring business strategy and processes are considered in translation to IT solutions;
• Ability to operate across organisation and computer technology silos to drive common approaches across the Trust enterprise architecture;
• Acting as champion for the departments ITIL processes, providing professional guidance in and execution of Change, Release, Problem, Performance, and Availability Management;
• Provide leadership in enterprise architecture technologies when working with external vendors, suppliers and other stakeholders;
• Provide leadership in application performance monitoring, detection of potential performance changes and overseeing action plans in ensuring users quality of experience.

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

• The vision for our single corporate services is to:
• Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
• Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
• Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
• Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
• Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
• Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
• Build resilience for individuals and our teams.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to offer some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, our on-site Wellness Centre and our staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability.

The OneEpr Programme exists to implement a single integrated electronic patient record (EPR) designed to improve patient outcomes and the experience of delivering care for our colleagues. The solution is the direct result of the combined vision and strategic goals of: 1. Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) 2. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU) 3. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT) 4. University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust (UHS). The Trusts will work together with their clinical and departmental experts alongside regional digital colleagues to procure and implement a joint EPR over the coming years.