Clinical Systems Engineer

Company Description

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this. 

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation.  You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

Job Description

NHS Band 5 Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum

Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5

Contract Type: Temporary for 12 months 

Location Base: St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG

Job purpose

To support the delivery and improvement of Local Health Care Services by ensuring Corporate Clinical Application Systems are supported and maintained efficiently and securely to maximise their availability and usefulness to users across Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.   This will include assisting with the delivery of effective support and advice to Clinical Application end users, working in the pressured environment for front-line patient care, to whom the complexity of Clinical Applications Systems is a critical tool in the delivery of that care.

The Digital Service Desk will continue to deliver the high level of service our users expect, no matter the type of call received. To support this vision and transformation we will support learning and development of all the team members to enable then to resolve all calls whether they be Clinical Systems or IT Operations specific.

The Digital Clinical Systems Engineer role is key in the provision, support and maintenance of the Clinical systems used within all services.

• The post holder will be required to interpret relevant policies and use their own initiative to ensure the clinical systems record all required data.
• The job holder is required to take responsibility for maintaining master files within the systems they support.
• They need to create processes to ensure data completeness and accuracy by identifying and analysing data anomalies.
• They instigate corrective action through communication with department managers and working with the Digital Trainers to train and re-educate staff.
• The job holder needs to ensure that all reporting timetables within the Trust and for external information users are met.

Job summary

• Based onsite at St Marys IT Dept, Newport, Isle of Wight
• Required to have knowledge of work practices and procedures within the Hospital along with the technical system knowledge to ensure systems are maintained and supported correctly.
• Responsible for developing processes to be provided to other departments to enable changes to national policies to be implemented
• Responsible for the operation and maintenance of information systems across a number of departments within the hospitals.
  • CLINiCOM / Patient Centre Patient Administration System (PAS),
  • VitalPAC / EDS Ward based system for vital signs, observations, assessments etc.
  • ICE Requesting Application – Requests for both Pathology / Radiology both internal and external partners.
  • Minestrone - Electronic Patient Record (EPR) System,
  • e-CareLogic – Electronic Patient record (EPR) System
  • BedView – Bed Management System
  • Oceano – ED Application
  • Symphony – ED Application
  • Windip Electronic document server and scanning service,
  • EPRO / TPRO Digital Dictation system and Video Consultation
  • Plexus – Outpatient Check in Kiosk Solution
  • Concentric – e-consent
• To ensure knowledge is kept up to date a close working relationship is required with departments that use their systems to ensure procedural changes are reflected in the system master file maintenance
• Act as 2nd line support to the Service Desk with the aim to help reduce and resolve issues by interrogation of the clinical systems and log tickets with 3rd party suppliers to provide resolution.
• Develop expertise and specialism for the support and testing of clinical systems, as required.

Specific Core Functions

• To configure system master files to ensure information is collected as required for local and national reporting.
• To provide and process knowledge to diagnose the cause of problems through effective questioning of end users.
• Follow departmental procedures for dealing with clinical system faults, ensuring that tickets are logged