Job summary
Employer heading
Pathology IT Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
The Pathology IT Manager is responsible for managing and coordinating all aspects of IT (support, installations & and project implementations) for
the Pathology at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Trust to include Biochemistry, Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Microbiology, Cellular Pathology and the Mortuary.
This comprises the development, installation and support of new and existing systems, providing training and documentation and a point of
contact between the Trust, Suppliers and Stakeholders.
Main duties of the job
The Pathology IT Manager is responsible for managing and coordinating all aspects of IT (support, installations & and project implementations) for
the Pathology at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Trust to include Biochemistry, Haematology, Blood Transfusion, Microbiology, Cellular Pathology and the Mortuary.
This comprises the development, installation and support of new and existing systems, providing training and documentation and a point of
contact between the Trust, Suppliers and Stakeholders.
The post holder is responsible for all hardware and software in the laboratories as well as LIMS, CyberLab and integrity of data held.
The post holder will be expected to liaise with Lancashire and South Cumbria Pathology Collaboration with anticipated new LIMS project.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, and offers a full range of district hospital services
and community health services to a population of 1.6 million in Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The Pathology Directorate encompassed several disciplines: Anti-Coagulation Dosing Advisory Service, Biochemistry, Blood Transfusion, Cellular Pathology, Haematology, Microbiology, Mortuary, Point of Care Testing, Phlebotomy & Virology.
The department has approximately 280 staff comprised of Consultants, Biomedical Scientists, Medical Laboratory Assistants, other laboratory or
technical personnel and administration staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• To undertake and manage new IT projects as and when required within the labs. This will entail discussions with suppliers, users, providing documentation, installation, and configuration and testing until such point that the project has either gone live or can be safely handed over to other stakeholders.
• Responsibility for all hardware and software within the laboratories, the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and Ordercomms, the integrity of the data it holds and the effective and accurate distribution of that data to clinicians and other systems as appropriate, across the Trust and to the local health community.
• To provide fault finding investigation in all systems; (desktop, hardware, software, network, connectivity): take ownership of highly complex faults to resolution and to liaise with hospital IT services and other parties should they be required to resolve the issues and co-ordinate support.
• Installations & fault finding work undertaken in both offices and contaminated lab areas.
• Proactive management of systems to provide on going improvement of service offered by the labs.
• Be responsible for solving of highly complex problems regarding programming and interface issues that arise between the analytical platforms and the Laboratory Information System. This may involve the safe and expeditious retrieval of erroneous results before they are available to clinical staff.
• To provide documentation of systems installed, user instruction documentation and report logging.
• To ensure that all new or upgrades to clinical systems function correctly and have been tested before going live.
• To ensure that departmental workload data is available as and when required by Pathology Services Manager.
• To contribute the Pathology Directorate meetings on all IT matters and projects, communicating highly complex issues and resolutions
to scientific and medical staff in the Directorate.
• Line manager for the Pathology IT Admin Support.
• Provide training and support for Pathology IT Admin Support.
• Responsible for training of staff at all grades in the Directorate, from basic system use to highly complex interfacing and problem solving.
• To communicate effectively with all levels of staff on multifaceted issues relating to IT systems.
• To ensure that daily pro-active management and regular housekeeping tasks are undertaken to maintain system integrity and that these are documented appropriately in order to keep patient and their information safe.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent level of experience in a pathology IT related role
Desirable criteria
- Project management qualification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Proven ability of developing and managing Pathology centered computer systems
- Extensive experience of Pathology IT interfacing
- Systems management experience
- Experience of working within Pathology
Desirable criteria
- Project management experience
Skills and Ability
Essential criteria
- Current knowledge of data flows and reporting methodologies within Pathology
- Strong interpersonal skills demonstrating the ability to communicate effectively with staff at all levels
- Proven ability to solve serious problems encountered in laboratory services
- Strong organisational skills
- Able to work using own initiative
- Ability to build effective working relationships
- Good understanding of clinical governance
- Ability to work as part of a team and organise fluctuating workload around competing priorities.
- Good analytical and report writing skills
- Capable of working under pressure
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dawn Singleton
- Job title
- Pathology Directorate Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253956726
- Additional information
NA
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
BTH
- Telephone
- 01253 957001
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