Lung Cancer Screening North Consortia - System Manager

To lead

and manage the LCSP system portfolio, including system administration,

configuration, access control, supplier liaison, change control, testing,

release management, documentation and operational support. Working closely with

Northumbria and North Cumbria as part of the Northern Consortia.

Act as an

expert to provide senior specialist advice to LCSP Consortia clinical,

operational and administrative users on complex system, workflow, data quality

and reporting issues.

To ensure

LCSP systems are configured and maintained to support safe patient pathways,

screening programme delivery, referral management, diagnostic tracking, results

management and onward care processes.

develop, maintain and assure LCSP system documentation, including operating

procedures, system configuration records, business continuity plans, disaster

recovery arrangements, testing evidence, training materials and System Security

and Compliance Control documentation where required are consistent across the

Northern Consortia.

oTo maintain robust processes for user access,

role-based permissions, starter/leaver changes and regular access audits in

line with local Trust and Northern Consortia

To lead

and manage the LCSP system portfolio, including system administration,

configuration, access control, supplier liaison, change control, testing,

release management, documentation and operational support. Working closely with

Northumbria and North Cumbria as part of the Northern Consortia.

Act as an

expert to provide senior specialist advice to LCSP Consortia clinical,

operational and administrative users on complex system, workflow, data quality

and reporting issues.

To ensure

LCSP systems are configured and maintained to support safe patient pathways,

screening programme delivery, referral management, diagnostic tracking, results

management and onward care processes.

develop, maintain and assure LCSP system documentation, including operating

procedures, system configuration records, business continuity plans, disaster

recovery arrangements, testing evidence, training materials and System Security

and Compliance Control documentation where required are consistent across the

Northern Consortia.

maintain robust processes for user access, role-based permissions,

starter/leaver changes and regular access audits in line with local Trust and

Northern Consortia information governance and cyber security requirements.

monitor, investigate and resolve system faults, incidents and data quality

issues, ensuring timely escalation to suppliers, Health Informatics colleagues

and operational leads as required.

To configuration changes,

reporting changes and new functionality, ensuring appropriate clinical and

operational sign-off.

To ensure

LCSP data is accurate, complete and available for programme assurance, audit,

performance reporting, pathway monitoring and statutory or national reporting

To work

with suppliers and internal technical teams to maintain system performance,

availability, interfaces, resilience, disaster recovery and business continuity

arrangements.

Operational

reporting and dashboard production.

Programme

assurance exception reporting and patient pathway monitoring.

Consortium

communications, audits and shared mailbox administration.

personally or supporting departmental system managers, including IT support

service for Northern Consortia LCS colleagues to manage operationally and

control the systems. This will include either directly or through designated IT

support for Northumbria and North Cumbria.

Directly

or through Northern Consortia to administer system operations, including

interfaces andattached devices, printing, housekeeping, archiving and backup

regimes.

develop and implement procedures for monitoring the system using error logs and

statistics. This could include system performance, system job management, file

space, processing capacity, database usage and disk maintenance.

maintain a full record of the data dictionary with supporting documentation.

To ensure

the system is updated as necessary and in an accurate and timely fashion, in

terms of central reference files and core system tables and coordinate with

programme managers and suppliers of interface applications.

To ensure

a full record of the system configuration, both software and hardware is

maintained.

operate the Trusts standard change control procedures in respect of the

systems relating to LCSPand provide support to the other Northern Consortia

members to ensure implemented correctly

provide expert knowledge on and assist with extraction of data as requested by

members of the Northern Consortium (using as required SQL or other tools).

To lead

develop and run, , user definable reports and data extraction reports (using as

required SQL or other tools).

Supervision

of hardware and software engineers while on-site during system installations,

upgrades or repairs to support the systems maintenance.

To

provide technical and application knowledge on IT problem solving and fault

resolution and monitor faults reported by the LCS Northern Consortium in order

to identify and resolve any problem areas

with system hardware and software engineers, when necessary, in order to

identify appropriate solutions to faults logged by users within the Trust.

Lead and

coordinator project service improvements with the LCS programme managers across

the Northern Consortia.

support the information governance team. This will include:

support data quality awareness training

To ensure

NHS data standards are implemented and maintained

support the Trust Data Quality Policy

monitor, improve and promote data quality on the system, working proactively

with the Information department

contribute to the strategic development, optimisation and future roadmap of

LCSP systems, ensuring alignment with Trust digital strategy, programme

priorities, clinical safety, information governance and national screening

To lead,

support or project-manage system developments, upgrades, new functionality and

service improvement activity using recognised project, change control and

service management approaches.

To act as

an advocate for effective system use across the LCSP pathway, supporting users

to adopt best practice and ensuring changes are embedded safely and

consistently.

provide effective line management for designated system support staff,

including supervision, workload prioritisation, objective setting, appraisal,

performance support, development planning and ensuring appropriate cross-cover

arrangements are in place.

participate in service continuity arrangements, including out of hours work or

on-call arrangements where required by the service.

Other

duties as required, commensurate with banding.

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You must be able to produce ALL certificates stated essential in the person specification or you will not be able to complete pre-employment checks.

We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.

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