Job summary
- Main area
- EPR
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 2 years (Short Term Contract)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 197-R-RF7332-A
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lewisham Town Hall
- Town
- Catford
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
EPR Acceleration - Data Migration Analyst
Band 8b
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
This role will support Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust in implementing the data migration strategy as part of the Trust’s new EPR deployment. This role will work with the Deputy Director of BI and the Associate Director of IT to deliver analytical support for the data migration workstream. This is part of a wider programme and the leads will work closely with teams in other workstreams to ensure delivery of the EPR project. The role will also work closely with any third party suppliers supporting the Trust in the EPR migration.
Main duties of the job
• Provide Data Migration expertise to the implementation activities.
• Work with key Data Migration Stakeholders and interdependent relationships across all partners.
• Provide Data Quality and Migration expertise with specific responsibility for delivering the vision for safe, comprehensive, and cost-effective patient records.
• Provide effective advice and guidance to the Systems Manager, ensuring key processes are defined and in place and Risks are documented and mitigated.
• Provide expertise in developing and implementing a culture of EPR data quality excellence.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The implementation forms an integral part of an innovative and exciting Clinical Transformation programme that will be enabled by a comprehensive digital experience, incorporating a wide range of EPR functionality required to deliver excellent patient care.
The Data Migration Analyst will lead on the data migration as part of the EPR Acceleration Programme, transferring from existing legacy data and records solutions into defined target solutions within the infrastructure including but not limited to the PAS, Historical Records archive, and Data Warehouse(s).
Under the limited direction of the Associate Director of BI and the Associate Director of IT, and in accordance with the Data Migration Strategy, the role will fulfil the Trust’s obligations to the Data Migration infrastructure, processes, and skills to drive and lead on all necessary Data Migration activities, including the collection, analysis, modelling, and reporting of complex data being migrated for the Programme.
The Data Migration Analyst will develop and manage complex plans including milestones and outcomes that progress will be managed against and that reporting and assurance are in line with requirements.
Co-ordination of Team and EPR Board in relation to meeting programme targets.
The role will work in harmony with the expert advice and guidance to the specialist Data Migration services to prepare the data records for migration. This will involve multiple iterations of the same process (test loads and verification assurance mechanisms before, during and post Go-Lives), interpreting the outputs of migration tools and acting upon them to prepare for the next iteration.
The role will require high levels of concentration on complex data, an eye for detail, be methodical and thorough with a passion for problem solving, ensuring existing data is available on day 1 of each Go-Live to the required quality.
The post holder will be responsible for all aspects of the development, management, including analysing business requirements, planning and managing data quality tasks and working with the Trusts Data Migration partner. Ensuring that the data migrated into the new EPR is of good quality (complete, relevant, useable) and that business benefits of the EPR Programme in relation to the quality of the data migrated are realised.
To resolve issues that arise as part of the data quality process, handling complex, sensitive and contentious information in an appropriate manner, using detailed analysis where there are conflicts and/or a range of option to consider
They will be able to provide and present clear and high-quality data at senior management level meetings ensuring accuracy of information and advising on the Trusts position and necessary actions to ensure go-live to internal and external audiences.
The role will lead on maintenance of Data Migration Implementation plan and Risks ensuring that appropriate mitigations are in place. Use own judgement in escalating as required or proposing alternative plans to meet delivery targets.
The applicant will use their own initiative scope and oversee pre-migration Data Quality activities in conjunction with legacy and designated System Managers and Information Asset Owners.
The post holder will provide expert technical knowledge relating to EPR Data Quality and Data Migration within a UK Healthcare environment and will be able to communicate complex issues to a wide range of staff across the Trust. Significant experience within Healthcare Data Migration that covers the responsibilities specified to resolve issues that arise as part of the programme management process, handling complex, sensitive and contentious information in an appropriate manner.
Translate and communicate expert technical advice and methodology to non-IT Specialists in a clear, concise and understandable manner.
The role will advise the post Go-Live data quality capability to protect solution benefits.
The EPR Data Migration Analyst will ensure:
· compliance with Standing Financial Instructions.
· Manage the data migration contract and budget spend
· capital and revenue budget allocation is not exceeded in any one year
· delegated budget responsibility
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience of working at this level (preferably in an IT or Mathematics discipline).
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- ECDL working towards or completed.
- Registered with a relevant informatics professional body
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of Data Migration activities in a Healthcare environment.
- Extensive experience of NHS regulatory records processes and governance
- Risk management experience of both Operational and Programme Risks.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of modern Data Migration and Data Quality techniques, acquired through equivalent experience or training.
- Specialist knowledge and awareness of Data Mapping and Verification processes
- Knowledge of common Healthcare Data Quality issues and resolutions.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of the NHS and its structures
- Knowledge of Data Modelling.
- Good knowledge of Data Acquisition, Data Extraction and Switching Service processes.
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Garnett
- Job title
- EPR Programme Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07771801815
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