Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, innovative Band 5 Applications Analyst to join our team, who will maintain and develop the Trust's clinical applications.

You will have experience of configuring a clinical system and will be working within the Diagnostics workstream of the Enterprise and Clinical Applications Team. You will be configuring pathology, radiology, investigation orders/results and referral orders in the Trust's clinical applications, as well as analysing and interpreting current clinical workflows and designing solutions utilising the clinical system's advanced functionality.

Main duties of the job

This is a key role in the configuration of the Trust's clinical applications. The emphasis will be to take a creative and visionary approach to the design and build of the clinical applications, using a core configuration tools (SQL, C# or SSRS skills are not required).

Please note, this role is not a data analysis role, instead you will be working with clinicians to design and build diagnostic orders within the Trust's clinical applications. An important aspect of the role includes the analysis and interpretation of current workflows and practices, working in partnership with clinical services. You will be self-directed, tenacious, yet able to work as a key member of a multidisciplinary team with a flexible approach.

This role is office based at the Clinical Sciences Building at Salford Royal Hospital with occasional requirements to visit any of the main hospital sites.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.