Deputy Pathology IT Manager

Job summary

Deputise for and assists the Laboratory IT Manager in order to maintain a high quality service within the resources available. The day-to-day management of clinical and non-clinical IT systems within pathology (includes collating of statistics and monitoring systems).

Main duties of the job

o To provide IT support across Laboratory medicine. This covers clinical, and non-clinical lab systems, plus first line support for other IT equipment.

o To manage, develop, maintain, and train users for various Pathology and Hospital systems including Telepath, Review, tQuest, Keystone, DAWN, Blood Track, Roche Vantage, and Sectra Digital Pathology.

o To be a member of the Directorate team providing policies and procedures meeting ISO 15189 accreditation and guidelines within National programme for IT.

o To represent the department at relevant meetings or strategy groups and support decision-making on behalf of the department

o To continuously monitor standards of service in line with the National plan, local requirements, activity, and financial targets.

o To produce monthly statistics covering Pathology departmental workloads.

o To undertake project work as required by the department.

o To undertake specific tasks to assist in the delivery of the corporate agenda.

o To stock control IT consumables and equipment within the department.

o To be responsible for IT Asset management.

o To be responsible for Regular Data archiving of the Laboratory information system to ensure data integrity and validity.

o To support the production of business cases in support of service developments as directed by senior Pathology management.

o To manage ward-order communications for Laboratory medicine.

About us

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

Job responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full personspecification,butoutlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person specification

Either a Degree acceptable to the HCPC or relevant IT degree

Essential

• Pass

Desirable

• Management qualification

A wide knowledge of developments in IT

Essential

• Application form

Desirable

• Understand the following Pathology IT systems: Winpath Enterprise, Telepath, Review, tQuest, Review, Keystone, Dawn, Dart, Qpulse, Blood Track, Roche Vantage, Sectra Digital Pathology, and Stalis Care View.

A wide knowledge of laboratory practices

Essential

• Application form