Job Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a major digital initiative designed to transform the delivery of care at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM). The Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme stands as one of the most ambitious change projects in the Trust’s history. Its aim is to streamline staff workflows, enhance safety, and ultimately achieve improved outcomes for service users.
Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:
We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience to progress into other roles across different specialties. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development in conjunction with the BCS membership.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will advise and lead on the mapping, migration, testing and validation of our clinical data, and the redesign of our reporting warehouse infrastructure. This includes understanding the Trust’s data and reporting requirements, and drawing on previous experience of EPR migration within a mental health Trust to anticipate and mitigate potential issues throughout the migration Programme.
To achieve this purpose the post holder will co-lead a team of developers and work with the EPR supplier to deliver a smooth migration and an effective reporting infrastructure. The team will be responsible for initial data mapping, data cleaning and consolidation, data migration using the supplier DM tool, and data testing and validation through trial loads, user acceptance testing and cutover.
Their work will support the EPR Programme’s milestones to deliver a timely migration and maintain clinical record integrity and continuity throughout the migration period. The post holder will be skilled in managing long term projects, work programmes and line management.
Flexible working:
As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. In this role you will be able to work Monday to Friday in the time frames from 8am to 6pm, giving you the very best of good work life balance.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level in technical subject, or equivalent relevant post graduate experience and proven technical history
- Evidence of continual professional / managerial development.
Desirable
- Higher post-graduate education in a relevant subject
- Relevant Professional qualifications and / or membership of a professional body.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience in developing and managing data flows in Microsoft SQL Server (SSIS / T-SQL) or Microsoft Azure to meet the business needs of the organisation
- Previous experience of data migration activities in a healthcare environment
Desirable
- Experience of developing data pipelines using Microsoft Azure Data Factory
- Specialist knowledge and awareness of data mapping and verification processes
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Highly developed specialist reporting database knowledge underpinned by theory and experience
- Knowledge of modern data migration and data quality techniques, acquired through equivalent experience or training.
- Risk management experience of both operational and programme risks.
- The facilitation of a stakeholder focussed culture within a team
- Excellent written, verbal, and other media communications /Presentation skills
- Ability to lead a team and manage team workloads
- Ability to provide training opportunities
- A logical and sensible approach to problem solving
- Ability to organise and prioritise their workload, and be able to work under pressure
- To analyse and apply user information to problem solving
- Ability to express complex issues, both orally and in writing in an easily understood manner for a range of audiences
- Negotiation, influencing and persuading skills
- Pro-active and self-motivated in completing work to a high standard in conjunction with other staff
- Excellent team skills and ability to work with members of own and other teams and departments at all levels of the organisation.
Desirable
- Evidence of relevant professional training in data modelling
- Prince 2, Agile or other Project Management methodologies
- Use of ITIL in a work environment
- Knowledge of mental health services
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).
Closing Date: 21 April 2026
