# Deputy Applications Manager - ITCS Inpatients Asap and Orders > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-applications-manager-itcs-inpatients-asap-and-orders/0d592a82-6847-45fb-a275-8dd7091bcc50 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-applications-manager-itcs-inpatients-asap-and-orders/0d592a82-6847-45fb-a275-8dd7091bcc50.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Salary:** £66274.00 to £73496.00 - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 9 months (End date May 31st 2027) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon - Friday, Office/WFH balance 50/50) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-09T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-31T12:26:28.600Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8195580 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8195580?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are offering a secondment opportunity from August 2026 to May/June 2027 for a Deputy Applications Managers within the ASAP and Orders/Bugsy teams in the Inpatient area of the ITCS directorate. This roles provide an opportunity to develop leadership and project delivery experience within the NHS, supporting the stabilisation and optimisation of the Epic EHR. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of delivering multiple workstreams to time with minimal supervision. They will be an effective team leader, able to prioritise workloads and apply expert knowledge of relevant Epic modules to support system design and workflow improvements. The post holder will coach team members, ensure timely system build, and maintain design integrity. They will manage stakeholder relationships, resolve issues, and support other clinical applications while working collaboratively across ITCS teams. The role includes responsibility for configuring Epic ASAP or Orders/Bugsy modules and supporting the Application Manager with WOT (Workflow Optimisation Team) activities, project governance, reporting, and upgrades. This is a hybrid role (50/50) and may require travel between Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital, and Royal Brompton and Harefield sites. ### Main duties of the job The ITCS team support and maintain a portfolio of Epic and non-Epic solutions and products that are essential to the smooth running of multiple busy, cutting-edge, highly digitised services across GSTT and KCH. We are seeking someone who has a strong aptitude for digital systems and is a natural born problem solver. Equally as important to these skills will be an understanding of workflow and processes required in an acute NHS Trust and/ or community settings. The successful candidate must be able to juggle multiple, sometimes conflicting deadlines and maintain strong working relationships across the wider end user community as well as others within the programme team. Experience in project management and/or change management methodologies and techniques together with experience of managing team members are essential for this role. As a Deputy Applications Manager for the Clinical Systems team the post holder has overall responsibility for the team who will configure the Epic modules and other software applications for the areas of care delivery within which their role is based. This will involve line management of a number of analysts, who you will support, coach and mentor to achieve the team’s goals. Key duties will involve working closely with external stakeholders to review, design, configure, test and deploy workflows and clinical content within Epic. Accreditation in either ASAP or Orders/Bugsy module is essential ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The post holder will be responsible for: - Supporting and coach the analyst team to maintain their Epic Accreditation and develop their analytical skills - Managing, co-ordinating and leading a multi-disciplinary configuration team ensuring a consistent approach to the configuration and integration between the modules and across the wider team. - Leading complex build and configuration that requires more developed specialist skills and experience in Epic configuration. - Managing, co-ordinating and leading a team of Analysts to ensure build is on time. - Taking responsibility to ensure design integrity. - Analysing and suggest ways to improve current workflows and working practices with clinical and operational leaders. - Working with the key stakeholders to analyse, negotiate and facilitate agreement for change to high-impact or critical workflows and current working practices, whilst managing expectations and resolving conflicts when necessary. - Preparing for testing of the system to ensure it is safe, usable, secure and robust including the preparation of all test scripts. - Testing of your area, plus the integration across all the modules to ensure care pathways are tested end to end. - Supporting complex Epic software demonstrations and present information on the teams’ progress adapted in a way in which makes it easy for the audience to understand. The post holder will also be responsible for supporting the Clinical Application Manager managing a selection of non-Epic clinical systems within their team. See the full job description and person specification for more details ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Proven ability to work on own initiative and organise own and others workload, allocating work as necessary - Professional calm and efficient manner Determination, perseverance, and resilience - Flexibility, and the ability to handle a rapidly changing and ambiguous environment - High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude ### Experience **Essential** - Extensive/proven experience of developing long term strategic plans which involves cross organisation impact using appropriate methodologies ideally Enterprise EHR software - Experience of delivering a workstream of activity within in a major programme framework - Evidence of working sensitively but effectively with professional staff in a diverse environment. - Demonstrable experience of making significant judgements involving highly complex facts or situations requiring analysis and interpretation from a range of options - Experience of successful direct and matrix management of several staff from own levels and disciplines both internally and externally and supplier departments or organisations, including appraisal, coaching and the application of related personnel policies ### Knowlege & Skills **Essential** - Confident, robust and resilient and with the drive to complete - Ability to command respect and to create a sense of community amongst the members of the project team - A strong sense of personal and team accountability coupled to a clear understanding of the boundaries around delegated authority - Confidently facilitate workshops, generating enthusiasm and support from participants - Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work closely and effectively with staff at all levels and disciplines both internally and externally - Well organised with a professional approach - Ability to plan and schedule complex resourcing models - Ability to demonstrate leadership and vision in a changing environment ### Qualifications/ Education **Essential** - Epic Certification/Accreditation in ASAP or Orders/Bugsy modules - Educated to degree level in a relevant subject plus master’s degree level or equivalent experience working within the NHS at a senior level **Desirable** - Project management qualifications: PRINCE2© Practitioner plus MSP© Practitioner or Certificate in PPM; or APM Certificated Project Manager; or PMI Project (PMP) or PMI Programme Professional (PgMP) ## Documents - [deputy application manager - jd and person specification (pdf, 496.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10500768) - [functional requirement form_b8a deputy applications manager (pdf, 524.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10500769) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.