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Job overview

Service Owners provide a vital function to frontline clinical staff across the organisation, ensuring that digital solution(s) are fit for purpose, maintained and developed throughout their lifecycle. The post holder will be the technical lead for a suite of new infection control systems including ICNet Infection Prevention, ICNet Surveillance, ICNet Pharmacy and Outbreak Manager.

In collaboration with the Director of Infection Prevention & Control, Infection Control Matron and several other senior stakeholders, this post will be pivotal to the ongoing adoption, maintenance and development of the ICNet application suite. The post holder will support senior stakeholders in defining and implementing the long-term product vision, opening feedback channels and leading stakeholder design groups to design and build innovative solutions and to enhance system integration.

This post will be at the forefront of ensuring the smooth and efficient implementation of developments related to these business-critical tools and will be a driving force for continuous improvement.

• Interview Date Thursday, 16 May 2024
• 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support frontline teams, senior stakeholders and the Director of Infection Prevention & Control in relation to ICNet:

• Monitor the Trust’s key suppliers’ roadmaps and understand the effects of changes, on the Trust
• Facilitate the process to define and maintain clinical application integration within and across applications
• Ensure the smooth integration of new technology into the current architecture of the Trust
• Ensure new solutions provide a robust foundation for daily operations and the ability to support future developments
• Support high level system validation processes and provides guidelines for targeted implementation and system testing
• Fulfilling user requirements by the production of high-level designs for solutions and systems for all clinical and non-clinical systems.
• Supports the development of systems strategy and application design
• Regularly review the working issues of key clinical and clerical staff in the Trusts
• Ensure the delivery of the appropriate business solutions, including use case definition and requirements, functional and architectural designs
• Contribute to the work of Business Solutions, providing expert advice and contributing to the production of quality artefacts and outputs of the team

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.

We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.