LIMS and Pathology Services EPR Configuration LeadNHS

Job summary

Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme OpportunityNorfolk and Waveney Hospitals Group (NWUHG)

We have embarked on a significant programme to implement a single Electronic Patient Record (EPR) across the Norfolk and Waveney Hospitals Group (NWUHG) as part of the wider NHS digital transformation agenda.

The collaborative brings together three acute hospital trusts:

James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (JPUH)

Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH)

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH)

This programme represents a major strategic investment in improving patient care, safety, and operational efficiency across our system.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute your skills and expertise to a high-impact programme that will shape the future of healthcare delivery across Norfolk and Waveney. The EPR programme is central to our ambition to modernise services, enhance clinical outcomes, and support our workforce through improved digital capability.

This role will be within the Eastern Pathology Alliance (EPA) IT and will report and deliver LIMS and ICE changes, as well as coordinate testing with clinical leads for the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital on behalf of the EPR programme - working with colleagues across EPA, the EPR programme, and the Group's pathology network.

Main duties of the job

The MEDITECH Expanse EPR programme depends on pathology ordering and resulting working correctly from day one. This post leads the pathology and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) side of that delivery on behalf of the Eastern Pathology Alliance (EPA), for the EPR programme's diagnostic integrations at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

You will project manage the lab changes implied by the EPR for one of the hospital sites: agreeing the detailed LIMS changes required, liasing with EPA CAB, planning and sequencing your work, changing and tracking LIMS configuration and supplier developments, and managing testing through to go-live and stabilisation. You will work flexibly in a team of three between EPA laboratory services, the EPR programme, Trust digital teams and the LIMS suppliers.

You will lead the alignment of the pathology test catalogue with the EPR build, including test and order set definitions, mapping and code assignment, add-on and reflex rules, specimen and container requirements, and result display expectations - working alongside the Pathology EPR Builder who undertakes the build in MEDITECH Expanse.

You will own the pathology test strategy and plan for orders and results integration, working with the EPR Test Manager, and will manage the pathology defect pipeline through to resolution. Ensuring that changes are made in a way that preserves laboratory quality standards, clinical safety and accreditation compliance.

Job description

• Opportunity to become an expert on the management of access, reporting and provisioning of the new Group electronic patient record.
• Working within a small team of EPR experts and the opportunity to gain valuable experience on the new electronic patient record.
• Development of new skills that are fully transferrable to new product delivery.
• #Experience of LIMS systems and pathology services is a fundamental requirement of this post. You will be the person responsible for planning, checking and making changes to LIMS and ordering systems to ensure high volume or important tests function as they should. Experience of LIMS systems and pathology services is essential. This is not a role we can train someone into. MEDITECH, particularities of our InterSystems, Daedelus and Haemonetics LIMS we will guide you on, and our programme tooling and our governance we can and will teach you.

About us

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics