Job summary
Clinical Systems Manager Cancer
Job Advert - Band 7 - Permanent - Full Time
The Cancer Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital is a leading specialist service providing comprehensive cancer care across a wide range of tumour sites, serving both the local population and patients referred nationally for highly specialised treatments. The department brings together multidisciplinary clinical teams, cutting-edge diagnostics, and advanced treatment facilities, underpinned by a strong commitment to research, innovation, and digital transformation. As part of Barts Health NHS Trust, one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, the Cancer Centre plays a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and driving improvements in outcomes, experience, and operational performance.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Information Systems Manager to join the Cancer Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital. This key role will lead the development, management, and optimisation of clinical information systems that support cancer services, ensuring high-quality data, robust reporting, and safe, efficient patient treatment.
You will work closely with clinical teams, operational managers, information team and informatics to ensure that systems meet service needs, support patient pathways, and enable performance monitoring, service improvement, and regulatory reporting.
Main duties of the job
The main objective of the Clinical Information System Manager will be to support and maintain the Clinical Information System on a day-to-day basis, ensuring high availability of this critical system, ensuring the Trust's ICT best practices are followed.
As a member of the cancer services team, the post holder will:
Ensure the availability of Clinical Information Systems to users, providing user account management and training support.
Manage relationships with suppliers to ensure system requirements including issues and upgrades management are met.
Assist the General Manager and Service Lead Pharmacist for Cancer in promoting high quality, safe prescribing to Cancer patients at Bart's Health.
Provide quality data reports for local and national evaluation.
Provide professional support to the Cancer speciality.
Key Requirements of the Person Specification:
IT degree or equivalent experience
Experience of working with IT systems management
Experience of Application first and second line support
Grade A-C GCSE in Maths and English
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- IT degree or equivalent experience
- Experience of working with IT systems management
- Experience of Application first and second line support
- Grade A-C GCSE in Maths and English
Desirable
- Information Management and best practice
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of good performance in previous posts, where relevant
- Intermediate keyboard skills, ability to communicate through IT systems using packages such as Word, outlook and excel.
- Able to type accurately
- Able to keep a dairy
- Able to communicate well with all grades of staff in a confident manner
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Able to compose letters and memos/newsletters
Knowledge
Essential
- Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel
- Ability to use MS SQL to write queries
- Advanced Excel skills
- Systems Management
- Data protection
Skills
Essential
- Able to prioritise own work
- Confident to work unsupervised and to make appropriate decisions
- Able to work calmly under pressure and to deadlines
- Able to pay attention to detail & accuracy
- Able to prioritise daily work load
- Able to follow policies and procedures
- Able to achieve objectives
- Works effectively in a team
- Good team worker
Desirable
- Demonstrates ability to identify, analyse root cause and develop options for complex problems
- Demonstrates intermediate project management skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- IT degree or equivalent experience
- Experience of working with IT systems management
- Experience of Application first and second line support
- Grade A-C GCSE in Maths and English
Desirable
- Information Management and best practice
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of good performance in previous posts, where relevant
- Intermediate keyboard skills, ability to communicate through IT systems using packages such as Word, outlook and excel.
- Able to type accurately
- Able to keep a dairy
- Able to communicate well with all grades of staff in a confident manner
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Able to compose letters and memos/newsletters
Knowledge
Essential
- Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel
- Ability to use MS SQL to write queries
- Advanced Excel skills
- Systems Management
- Data protection
Skills
Essential
- Able to prioritise own work
- Confident to work unsupervised and to make appropriate decisions
- Able to work calmly under pressure and to deadlines
- Able to pay attention to detail & accuracy
- Able to prioritise daily work load
- Able to follow policies and procedures
- Able to achieve objectives
- Works effectively in a team
- Good team worker
Desirable
- Demonstrates ability to identify, analyse root cause and develop options for complex problems
- Demonstrates intermediate project management skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
