At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a dynamic team to optimise and configure Epic EHR systems in a fast-paced NHS environment.
- Company: Join Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, a leading healthcare provider in London.
- Benefits: Enjoy a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate with top professionals in a supportive and innovative healthcare setting.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in patient care while developing your leadership skills in healthcare technology.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management and a strong understanding of digital systems are essential.
The predicted salary is between 46134 - 56386 £ per year.
We are offering a secondment opportunity from August 2026 to May/June 2027 for a Deputy Applications Manager within the ASAP and Orders/Bugsy teams in the Inpatient area of the ITCS directorate. This role provides an opportunity to develop leadership and project delivery experience within the NHS, supporting the stabilisation and optimisation of the Epic EHR.
The successful candidate will have a strong track record of delivering multiple workstreams to time with minimal supervision. They will be an effective team leader, able to prioritise workloads and apply expert knowledge of relevant Epic modules to support system design and workflow improvements. The post holder will coach team members, ensure timely system build, and maintain design integrity. They will manage stakeholder relationships, resolve issues, and support other clinical applications while working collaboratively across ITCS teams.
The role includes responsibility for configuring Epic ASAP or Orders/Bugsy modules and supporting the Application Manager with WOT (Workflow Optimisation Team) activities, project governance, reporting, and upgrades. This is a hybrid role (50/50) and may require travel between Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital, and Royal Brompton and Harefield sites.
The ITCS team support and maintain a portfolio of Epic and non-Epic solutions and products that are essential to the smooth running of multiple busy, cutting-edge, highly digitised services across GSTT and KCH. We are seeking someone who has a strong aptitude for digital systems and is a natural born problem solver. Equally as important to these skills will be an understanding of workflow and processes required in an acute NHS Trust and/or community settings.
The successful candidate must be able to juggle multiple, sometimes conflicting deadlines and maintain strong working relationships across the wider end user community as well as others within the programme team. Experience in project management and/or change management methodologies and techniques together with experience of managing team members are essential for this role.
As a Deputy Applications Manager for the Clinical Systems team, the post holder has overall responsibility for the team who will configure the Epic modules and other software applications for the areas of care delivery within which their role is based. This will involve line management of a number of analysts, who you will support, coach and mentor to achieve the team’s goals.
Key duties will involve working closely with external stakeholders to review, design, configure, test and deploy workflows and clinical content within Epic. Accreditation in either ASAP or Orders/Bugsy module is essential.
The post holder will be responsible for:
- Supporting and coaching the analyst team to maintain their Epic Accreditation and develop their analytical skills.
- Managing, co-ordinating and leading a multi-disciplinary configuration team ensuring a consistent approach to the configuration and integration between the modules and across the wider team.
- Leading complex build and configuration that requires more developed specialist skills and experience in Epic configuration.
- Managing, co-ordinating and leading a team of Analysts to ensure build is on time.
- Taking responsibility to ensure design integrity.
- Analysing and suggesting ways to improve current workflows and working practices with clinical and operational leaders.
- Working with key stakeholders to analyse, negotiate and facilitate agreement for change to high-impact or critical workflows and current working practices, whilst managing expectations and resolving conflicts when necessary.
- Preparing for testing of the system to ensure it is safe, usable, secure and robust including the preparation of all test scripts.
- Testing of your area, plus the integration across all the modules to ensure care pathways are tested end to end.
- Supporting complex Epic software demonstrations and presenting information on the teams’ progress adapted in a way in which makes it easy for the audience to understand.
The post holder will also be responsible for supporting the Clinical Application Manager managing a selection of non-Epic clinical systems within their team.
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