Clinical Systems Manager

Employer Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site RCI, Haylock House Town Kettering Salary £47,810 – £54,710 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 04/08/2025 23:59

Clinical Systems Manager

NHS AfC: Band 7

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician/non clinician who has a passion for digital transformation of services to join our digital clinical systems team.

To succeed in this role, you will have excellent communication and leadership skills in order to influence digital clinical system practice and promote safety in the design, implementation and use of healthcare technology.

Embedded in Digital Technical Services (DTS), the post holder will play a senior role, reporting to the Deputy Head of Clinical Systems Team, and will be responsible for the management and ongoing development of NHFT Clinical Systems Team (CST). They will ensure that the service has a safe clinical system function that supports the Trust to be a provider of outstanding patient care, via the use of safe and effective digital clinical tools.

The post is full-time (37.5 hours) and permanent and will involve travel between sites across the Trust estate.

Main duties of the job

You will provide day to day management and leadership for CST to include staff and service development and hold responsibility for operational delivery of service outcomes.

You will have demonstrable communication and problem-solving skills, a can-do attitude and a commitment to working collaboratively with stakeholders, developing strong relationships to support the planning and delivery of programmes of work that improve safety, quality and efficiency.

Key functions include clinical system management, maintenance, and support (where appropriate within service contracts). Working with colleagues across the Trust and other organisations, ensuring that CST has the frameworks, procedures and processes in place to:

· Assure training is accessible to all and support end users

· Safely and effectively manage service requests and changes within KPIs and SLAs

· Maintain the integrity of the live clinical solutions

· Work closely with system suppliers so that functionality roadmaps are understood and contractual standards are met

· Work with the Clinical Team to ensure Trust systems are clinically safe

· Oversee the Registration Authority (RA) function, maintaining thetrust’s position on regulatory compliance and identify areas for improvement

· Deputise where appropriate for the HOS and/or the Deputy HOS

Working for our organisation

NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.

NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document.

Person specification

Assessment against Application Form

• Meets essential criteria within behaviours and values
• Meets essential criteria within knowledge and experience

Assessment against Application Form

• Meets essential criteria within skills and abilities

By completing an application you are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data. In submitting an application form, you authorise us to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training records and full service history.

You must ensure that your application, including supporting statements and behaviour examples, are truthful and factually accurate. Please note plagiarism can include presenting the ideas and experience of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

Please submit your application as soon as possible; due to the high volumes of applications we receive we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

All roles are subject to the home office immigration rules and therefore eligibility must meet certain requirements for any sponsorship to be considered. Please visit the government website for more information regarding eligibility,

At NHFT we support many of our colleagues to work flexibly and we will consider requests for flexible working from day one. For this role, we are open to discussing a range of options including flexible hours, agile/home working, compressed hours and part time hours. Please have a conversation with the recruiting manager about the flexibility you need and we will promise to explore what is possible with you.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

All posts that are engaged in a regulated activity will be subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and a DBS re-check on a three yearly basis whilst employed in such a role. Staff employed in these posts will therefore be asked to register with the DBS Automatic Update Service upon receipt of their DBS certificate and must update yearly , the annual fee will be reimbursed subject to Trust policy. For further information please visit: DBS Update Service: applicant guide – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note if a DBS is applicable for the position then a charge will be deducted from your first salary or upfront cost if a staff bank position.

Please note that all new starters to the trustare subject to a probationary period.

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Name Lisa Macphail Job title Deputy Head of Clinical Systems Email address lisa.macphail@nhft.nhs.uk Additional information

For an informal discussion, please contact

Lisa MacPhail – lisa.macphail@nhft.nhs.uk

or Jackie Perkins – jackie.perkins@nhft.nhs.uk

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