# Deputy Pathology IT Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Stepping Hill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Manager
- **Grade:** Band 7
- **Salary:** £49,387 - £56,515 pro rata per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent: richard.smethurst@stockport.nhs.uk
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-21T07:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-07T09:56:05.409Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Stockport/Stockport_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Pathology_IT/Pathology_IT-v8302324
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8302324?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stockport.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

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

- To provide IT support across Laboratory medicine. This covers clinical, and non-clinical lab systems, plus first line support for other IT equipment.
- 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.
- To be a member of the Directorate team providing policies and procedures meeting ISO 15189 accreditation and guidelines within National programme for IT.
- To represent the department at relevant meetings or strategy groups and support decision-making on behalf of the department
- To continuously monitor standards of service in line with the National plan, local requirements, activity, and financial targets.
- To produce monthly statistics covering Pathology departmental workloads.
- To undertake project work as required by the department.
- To undertake specific tasks to assist in the delivery of the corporate agenda.
- To stock control IT consumables and equipment within the department.
- To be responsible for IT Asset management.
- To be responsible for Regular Data archiving of the Laboratory information system to ensure data integrity and validity.
- To support the production of business cases in support of service developments as directed by senior Pathology management.
- To manage ward-order communications for Laboratory medicine.

### Detailed job description and main 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 person specification,but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### 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

### Either a Degree acceptable to the HCPC or relevant IT degree

**Essential**

- Pass

**Desirable**

- Management qualification

## Documents

- [candidate pack (pdf, 310.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2576)
- [applicant guide (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1756)
- [our behaviours - care (pdf, 218.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1757)
- [jd & ps pathology deputy it manager (pdf, 570.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10621987)

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