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Job overview

 When thinking about what drives you every day in your job, what keeps you motivated and passionate about your work, what comes to mind? For 16,000+ people at The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust we end each day knowing that we have made a difference to the health and wellbeing of our citizens.  

The Great North Care Record (GNCR) provides systems for sharing information between health and social care professionals. It covers the 3.2 million people living in the North East and North Cumbria. The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals are leading the projects, on behalf of the region’s health and social care providers, to improve the way patient data is shared across our region. The programme is fast paced and dynamic with projects involving NHS Trusts, Primary Care and Local Authorities. 

As a Senior IT Officer working for GNCR, you will be responsible for managing the Health Information Exchange (HIE) service.   This includes ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality customer services experience. It’s a fantastic opportunity to work with some amazing people and see how the NHS really drives innovation and change.      

Interview date: 5 June 2024

 37 hours 30 minutes/week

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Main duties of the job

We are looking for a highly driven, enthusiastic, and innovative candidate who can work effectively both independently and in a team environment. We need someone who is able to be tactful and persuasive with users offering and promoting different solutions to meet project deadlines.

The successful candidate will have the drive, determination and stamina required to keep pace with the demands of this busy role. You will have excellent leadership, communication and interpersonal skills and you must be able to work to deadlines under pressure. You will require analytical capabilities to meet activity and quality performance targets, along with data validation experience to enable GNCR to achieve our targets.

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.