Senior Digital Solutions Delivery Engineer – Digital Solutions

Allscreens Nationwide Ltd; St Helens; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Digital Solutions Delivery Engineer to lead the design and governance of current and future digital interfaces across the Health Informatics Service. The role supports training, audits, and delivery of digital projects with a focus on secure, compliant reporting and continuous improvement.

The post holder will oversee suppliers and contractors, maintain comprehensive documentation, and ensure alignment with DoH and Trust

Responsibilities

• Lead technical design authority for current and future digital interfaces in line with Trust strategy.
• Provide training within ICT on digital systems and architecture to ensure supportability.
• Participate in audits of digital systems and assist in project planning and deployment.
• Oversee ETL automation, ensure job validation, and implement remedial actions when needed.
• Maintain Digital Solutions documentation and monitor key performance data to meet DoH & Trust targets.

Job description

Senior Digital Solutions Delivery Engineer – Digital Solutions

To be the lead technical design authority for current and future digital interfaces in line with the Trust strategy and with those NHS partners in the surrounding area. Update own professional and technical knowledge, training junior staff on applicable digital systems to ensure understanding and supportability. To participate in internal or external auditing of digital systems. To facilitate and ensure timely communication and resolution of issues that may impact the delivery of a project. Provide technical expertise in the scope, design, selection and deployment of hardware and software, ensuring that technology is appropriately utilised to meet the capacity and availability of digital systems for the Health Informatics Service and its citizens. Research, investigate and recommend new technologies which could be used to support digital systems through extensive investigation and development, source suppliers and undertake product evaluation to ensure all ICT procurement is undertaken strategically. Provide training within the ICT department on digital systems and the ICT architecture used for those systems to ensure the digital systems are fully understood and supported by the Informatics Department. Prepare and deliver service level/operational reports pertaining to current digital systems across all HIS partner organisations. Provide technical expertise for project managers and assist in the development of project plans and control deployment. Provide technical expertise at service review meetings. Identify and document incidents (failure patterns and trends) that may indicate the existence of a problem. Participate in resolution of high severity or major incidents through decision making and activity sign off. Maintain Digital Solutions documentation. Continuous Improvement. Defining, communicating, planning, implementing, and reviewing continuous improvement initiatives. Communicates complex project design, financial, contractual information to senior managers, business partners, board level representatives as required. Maintaining clinical workflows across multiple digital systems using various open integration standards. Identify and manage risk understanding potential effect to business impact on internal and external reporting. Oversee the work of suppliers and contractors to ensure they delivery to agreed timescales and budget. To provide expertise in the use and deployment of software to support the reporting requirements of all health community organisations and their services. To work with the Assistant Director - Digital Solutions Delivery to determine future work priorities and timescales. To ensure and assist with monitoring of key performance data in-line with DoH & Trust targets. Responsible for all operational day to day management of Data Services Team. Responsible for all human resource issues relating to Digital Solutions Team, all appraisals, recruitment, and selection, disciplinary, grievances and sickness issues. To oversee the design and content of all supporting documentation that will be made available to users. To plan the workload of the team, with set timescales for delivery of each work package. To oversee the automation of ETL process and ensure that mechanisms are in place to validate the successful completion of all jobs and introduce timely remedial action when necessary. To ensure that all processes undertaken by the team are fully documented in written procedures. Also, that all procedures are tested and are made available to other members of the data intelligence departments (to ensure continuity of service). To investigate new technology that is available that can enhance electronic reporting provision. To optimise the use of existing tools that are available, and revise processes if improvements can be made. Ensure all new information outputs are quality assured by representatives from all relevant parties. To ensure confidentiality of patient data at all times, by awareness and compliance with relevant legislation and guidance (both local and national). To attend regional/national events as appropriate and ensure that all information/knowledge gained is disseminated to other staff. To undertake additional ad-hoc duties as appropriate. To deputise for the Assistant Director - Digital Solutions Delivery, as and when required. The location/base of this role may change at any time, and the post-holder may have to manage services across numerous sites. This job description is not intended to be exhaustive as duties may change in light of the annual performance review appraisal and ongoing developments.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust