LIMS and Pathology Services EPR Configuration Lead

Job overview

Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme Opportunity Norfolk 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• 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.

Applicant requirements

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.