Digital Systems Manager

For further information about this role, please contact Gareth Cinnamon (Deputy Head of Digital Systems) via [email protected]

About The Role

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust (MYTT) is embarking on a major digital transformation through the implementation of the awardwinning Nervecentre Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system. This transition represents a significant step change in how clinical information is captured, accessed and used across the Trust.

MYTT has an established Digital Systems Team responsible for the management, maintenance, development and operational stability of the Trust’s major clinical digital systems. The Digital Systems Manager is a key member of this team and will play a pivotal role in the transition from their portfolio of legacy systems to the new EPR.

Working Trustwide, the post holder provides specialist technical leadership, secondline system support and expert advice to clinical and nonclinical users, ensuring systems are safe, reliable, compliant and aligned with the Trust’s Digital Strategy.

The role involves close collaboration with Digital Services colleagues, system suppliers, clinicians and operational teams, and includes staff management responsibilities, participation in system upgrades and developments, and support for a 24/7 clinical service environment.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Main duties

• Manage the daytoday operation, configuration and maintenance of clinical digital systems, for example: SystmOne, Electronic Prescribing, Cancer Information Systems, PAS.
• Provide secondline application and technical support, diagnosing and resolving complex issues and coordinating fixes with suppliers.
• Lead and contribute to system upgrades, developments and new implementations, including requirements gathering, testing, golive support and postimplementation review.
• Act as the primary contact for system suppliers, managing contracts, fault prioritisation and service delivery.
• Design and coordinate technical and user testing, ensuring changes are safe and fit for purpose before release.
• Maintain accurate system documentation, configuration records, SOPs and data flow documentation.
• Ensure systems comply with Information Governance, data security policies and NHS standards.
• Participate in and lead data quality improvement initiatives.
• Line manage Digital Systems Administrators/Officers, supporting performance, development and mandatory training compliance.
• Provide expert advice, training coordination and guidance to system users across the Trust.
• Work flexibly across Trust sites and, where required, outside core hours to support service delivery.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Qualifications

Essential person specification requirements

• Educated to degree level or equivalent or able to demonstrate equivalent level of experience

Experience

• Previous work experience in the NHS
• Previous experience of managing staff
• Extensive experience of setting up and configuring clinical systems and associated functionality
• Significant knowledge of working practices/areas where clinical systems are used
• Working with suppliers
• Defining user requirements and interpreting them to system suppliers
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office applications

Knowledge And Awareness

• An excellent knowledge of confidentiality and data security
• Highly computer literate
• Awareness of own limitations

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Be part of MY team

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Application Guidance

We understand that more applicants are using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help with their applications. While these tools can be useful, they cannot fully capture your skills, knowledge, and experience. It’s important that you personalise your application. Relying solely on AI is not recommended, as it may reduce your chances of success. Our screening process is thorough, so if you have used AI, please make sure to disclose this on your application form.

Our Benefits

• Access to the NHS pension plan
• Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
• Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
• Extensive benefits and support, including:
• Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
• Home electronics scheme
• Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
• Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
• Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
• Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
• Career progression, training and support

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