Job overview
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
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
1. IT degree or equivalent experience
2. Experience of working with IT systems management
3. Experience of Application first and second line support
4. Grade A-C GCSE in Maths and English
Desirable criteria
5. Information Management and best practice
Experience
Essential criteria
6. Proven experience of good performance in previous posts, where relevant
7. Intermediate keyboard skills, ability to communicate through IT systems using packages such as Word, outlook and excel.
8. Able to type accurately
9. Able to keep a dairy
10. Able to communicate well with all grades of staff in a confident manner
11. Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
12. Able to compose letters and memos/newsletters
Knowledge
Essential criteria
13. Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel
14. Ability to use MS SQL to write queries
15. Advanced Excel skills
16. Systems Management
17. Data protection
Skills
Essential criteria
18. Able to prioritise own work
19. Confident to work unsupervised and to make appropriate decisions
20. Able to work calmly under pressure and to deadlines
21. Able to pay attention to detail & accuracy
22. Able to prioritise daily work load
23. Able to follow policies and procedures
24. Able to achieve objectives
25. Works effectively in a team
26. Good team worker
Desirable criteria
27. Demonstrates ability to identify, analyse root cause and develop options for complex problems
28. Demonstrates intermediate project management skills
**Visa Sponsorship Information**
Recent changes to UK immigration policy on the Health and Care Visa and Skilled Worker Visa could mean that this role is not eligible for sponsorship or that you may not meet the eligibility criteria.
Sponsorship can only be offered if this post and any individual offered employment meet all the Home Office’s requirements under the UK Skilled Worker visa scheme.
If you are applying from outside the UK or will require sponsorship, please mention this clearly in your application.
To be eligible for sponsorship, the following conditions must be met:
29. Eligible role: The position must be on the UK Skilled Worker visa list. You can check your eligibility here: -.
30. Salary threshold: The role must meet the minimum salary set by the Home Office. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.
31. Skill level: The role must meet the minimum skill requirement of RQF Level 6 or above (graduate level).
32. English language: Applicants must demonstrate English proficiency at CEFR level B1 or higher.
33. Other criteria: Applicants must meet all other criteria as set out by the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI)