Job overview

The Digital Design Collaborative (DDC) is a partnership of NHS Acute Trusts across the East Midlands, working together to deliver digital transformation at scale. Our shared ambition is to operate as a single, integrated healthcare system through digital excellence.

As an EPR Project Co-ordinator you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the successful delivery of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) projects across University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Your work will directly contribute to improving patient care and empowering staff through digital transformation.

Our vision:
“We will have the best EPR in the NHS for the benefit of our patients, staff and population.”

We will achieve this by:

• Prioritising patient safety and wellbeing
• Empowering staff with tools to deliver outstanding care
• Driving innovation and collaboration across the region

DDC member Trusts are implementing a leading Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system to provide instant access to information, reduce paper use, and enhance clinical decision-making.

This marks a shift from siloed working to a regional, strategic model. Key roles are being recruited across the region to enable flexible deployment of expertise where it’s needed most.

Many roles are hybrid, with some travel across the East Midlands. Recruitment is managed by Derbyshire Support & Facilities Services Ltd (DSFS).

Main duties of the job

As an EPR Project Co-ordinator you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the successful delivery of Electronic Patient Record (EPR) projects across University Hospitals of Derby and Burton and Chesterfield Royal Hospital. Your work will directly contribute to improving patient care and empowering staff through digital transformation.

• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support project implementation.
• Ensure projects meet deadlines and strategic goals outlined in the EPR Strategy.
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration across teams and Trusts.
• Manage and analyse project information, producing reports, minutes, and briefings.
• Engage relevant stakeholders throughout planning and implementation phases.

• Main responsibilities include:

• Facilitating collaboration across teams by engaging with stakeholders at every stage of project planning, implementation, and development to ensure solutions meet user needs.

• Supporting project delivery in partnership with the PMO, ensuring milestones are met and project plans are executed within agreed timescales

• Coordinating demonstrations and workshops for EPR projects, ensuring relevant internal and external stakeholders are involved and informed.

• Documenting and analysing current processes, translating them into clear workflows and validating user requirements to support effective system design.

Working for our organisation

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together. 

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

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Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

 VISA's and Immigration system

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

When DSFS Ltd are able to offer sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK), applicants will be required to provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form.  Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years.  Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

COVID19 Vaccination

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

Communications 

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account, spam folders and NHS Jobs (where applicable) account regularly.

References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore, to speed up the recruitment process please provide an up to date email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the DSFS Human Resources team on 01246 513737 / [email protected] and we will be happy to provide assistance.

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