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We believe that mobile technology has a major part to play in improving patient care in hospitals. From developing our software to supporting the users, our staff help us enable healthcare professionals to do their jobs efficiently and effectively.

We’re always looking for brilliant people to join our growing team. We have a vibrant, dynamic working environment with opportunities to develop your career. If you think you’re a good fit and you’d like to join us on our journey, get in touch [email protected].

Opportunities

PAS Implementation Specialist

Nervecentre Software is a pioneering software house, bringing clinical applications to mobile users within acute hospitals. Our Nervecentre mobile/server technology provides services which free clinicians from desktop PCs and allow them to leverage real-time patient and hospital information to make timely and appropriate clinical decisions.

Role Summary

As a PAS Implementation Specialist, you will play a crucial role in successfully implementing and optimising patient administration systems (PASs) within our organisation. Your expertise and experience in PAS implementation, along with specific technical skills, will contribute to seamless deployments and efficient utilisation of our PAS product.

Responsibilities

  • Utilise your in-depth knowledge and practical experience in PAS implementation to guide and support the deployment process effectively.
  • Be the core deployment resource to action implementation activities are ensure they are completed to a high standard and to a predetermined project timeline.
  • Collaborate closely with the engineering team to ensure clear communication, prioritisation, and development of actions aligned with identified requirements.
  • Engage with customers to provide specialist skills and support the delivery team throughout the implementation process.
  • Define and execute pilots for new PAS products and features, documenting purposes and capturing results as part of the product introduction process.
  • Contribute thought leadership in the PAS domain, sharing your expertise with the rest of the company.
  • Identify opportunities for product development and enhancements based on implementation experiences and customer feedback.
  • Work alongside the PAS lead to produce comprehensive internal and customer documentation and training materials in a timely manner.
  • Continuously assess the PAS product against current and emerging national requirements, maintaining a thorough gap/impact analysis and informing the engineering team.
  • Collaborate with the Product team to ensure assistance in developing product knowledge and support in responding to PAS-related inquiries in tenders.
  • Explore and contribute to the creation of case studies highlighting successful PAS implementations.
  • Represent the company at relevant forums and trade events, showcasing our PAS implementation expertise.

Preferred Skills

  • Proven experience in PAS implementation, with a minimum of 5 years in a relevant role, either at a hospital or another PAS vendor.
  • Aptitude for quickly grasping new concepts and effectively collaborating across diverse teams.
  • Strong team player with the ability to thrive in a multidisciplinary environment across various locations in the UK.
  • Possession of a full UK driving licence for required travel.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills in English.
  • Self-motivated and capable of working autonomously with minimal supervision.
  • Positive outlook, can-do attitude, and a focus on achieving results.
  • Quick learner with an inclination towards acquiring new technologies and skills.
  • Effective planning and organisational abilities to ensure logical and clear work activities.
  • Exceptional collaboration skills, enabling effective communication with customers and colleagues through various channels.
  • Patient and helpful approach when interacting with customers and colleagues.

Technical Requirements (Optional)

  • Basic Linux knowledge to navigate and troubleshoot Nervecentre environments.
  • Basic SQL skills, preferably with experience in MySQL, to query and import data into databases.
  • Familiarity with HL7 standards for healthcare data exchange.
  • Familiarity with FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources)

To apply for this role, please email your CV to [email protected]

PAS Implementation Delivery Lead

Nervecentre Software is a pioneering software house, bringing clinical applications to mobile users within acute hospitals. Our Nervecentre mobile/server technology provides services which free clinicians from desktop PCs and allow them to leverage real-time patient and hospital information to make timely and appropriate clinical decisions.

Nervecentre uniquely provides a whole hospital platform that can deliver electronic observations, handover, task management and clinical assessments. Accompanying governance and escalation management integrates essential patient safety safeguards.

Company culture is clinically-led, centred around patient care and providing quality solutions and support to our customers. Our offices are in Wokingham, with customers throughout the UK.

Role Summary

As the PAS Implementation Delivery Lead, you will have a deep knowledge and understanding of the feature set and practical use of patient administration systems (PASs), preferably from a range of vendors. Under the leadership of the PAS Delivery Lead you will assist in the delivery of the Nervecentre PAS for customers. The experience you have in terms of working PAS practices will be utilised when consulting with customers on the business change required to move from the existing PAS to Nervecentre.

The role will include a range of different responsibilities which will focus on the delivery and improvement of a next generation EPR and PAS solution.

PASs can perform many functions; in our definition, we include the administration of patient demographics information, patient bookings, ED and inpatient visits, outpatient clinics, waiting lists, RTT, reporting, and NHS Spine integration.

The responsibilities of the PAS Implementation Delivery Lead include:
• Assisting in the creation of training materials for the purpose of sharing with both the customer and internally.
• Gain an in-depth understanding of all functional areas of the system to be deployed, with the ability to walk through each workflow.
• Undertake product demonstrations for the customer whilst presenting each of the benefits of the solution.
• Produce customer facing documentation/templates in relation to the product and process, adhering to the Nervecentre publishing standards.
• Work with the customer to facilitate/assist in gap analysis. With the aim to identify and ensure the product solution / application can absorb all current and future operational procedures.
• Work with the customer, running configuration design workshops whilst managing the control of the configuration build and associated documentation.
• Communicate and escalate any potential changes/enhancements required by the customer.
• Assist the sales team in responding to tenders. Ensuring that service (clinical) aspects of the response are accurate, complete and address the stated requirements within your knowledge and expertise.
• Support customers through rounds of user acceptance testing and the preparation ahead of this testing.
• Support internal company software testing to assist in identifying and escalating software issues through a quality assurance process.
• Provide onsite customer support for go-lives. At times this may require support out of normal business hours.
• Working with the Data Migration lead to assist where required, to identify potential configuration problems and managing the resolution.
• Representing the company in on-site meetings, forums and trade events where relevant.
• Where deemed necessary work flexibly across other Nervecentre project and products to meet the EPR delivery needs.

This full-time position will be home based. There will also be a need to travel to customer sites on a regular basis.

Skills required

The successful applicant will:
• Possess and demonstrate strong PAS knowledge, evidenced by at least 5 years’ experience in a relevant role (e.g. at a hospital and/or at another PAS vendor).
• Experience of working with a range of stakeholders within the implementation and management of a PAS.
• Experience in testing a PAS, whether this is within an upgrade or an implementation of a solution.
• Hold a full UK driving license.
• Be willing to travel and where required stay overnight for the support of the implementation of the Nervecentre PAS.
• A high level of understanding of the operational procedures within various departments that make up the NHS.
• Understanding of the importance of the data collection and reporting required by central government to record NHS activity.
• Ability to work to tight deadlines
• Experience in the delivery of training and project support and implementation.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to communicate effectively to multiple audiences.
• Excellent presentation skills and MS Office skills.
• Ability to organise and co-ordinate areas of work for yourself and others including non Nervecentre Staff
• Motivated ‘Self-starter’ willingness to learn multiple new skills

To apply for this role, please email your CV to [email protected]

QA Engineer

Nervecentre Software Ltd is a rapidly growing developer of mobile software for the global healthcare market, in particular acute hospitals. Our software is used extensively by doctors and nurses and the quality of our software can have a very real impact upon patient safety. Nervecentre is based in Wokingham, UK.

The ongoing evolution of the Nervecentre core product line in conjunction with an increase in customers’ projects requires a specialised QA engineer to aid in the verification and validation phase of our software development and maintenance cycle.

The role of the QA Engineer is key in maintaining excellence in the quality of the product by ensuring that every deliverable is subject to consistent and rigorous quality validation procedures.

The QA Engineer will have the ability to get an in-depth understanding of the operation of the product, related customer processes and governance procedures as well as a passion for creating complex testing solutions and for continuously improving the quality of the product.

We offer a rewarding environment, developing products entirely in the UK, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to influence the growth of the company and product, as well as opportunities to learn new skills, and receive a package that combines a competitive salary with a flexible working environment.

Qualifications and Experience

  • 5+ years experience in software QA
  • Computer science/engineering degree or equivalent
  • ISTQB Foundation or higher

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

  • Responsible for all aspects of testing, including functional, regression and system testing
  • Able to think outside the box and not focus upon just the “Happy Path” scenarios
  • Set up and maintain test environments
  • Design, build and maintain manual test scripts
  • Identify the regression impact of the work included in the release and plan testing accordingly
  • Provide estimates for user stories testing and regression cycles
  • Execute test plans capturing accurate results, logging and describing issues discovered during testing
  • Track and record defects updating JIRA promptly and working with the development team to resolve issues. Assist where further investigation or fix retesting is needed.
  • Record quality metrics in test tools and provide QA approval for release to production
  • Planning of multiple releases including version compatibility of different components (e.g. server and mobile devices)
  • Testing of large cluster and complex healthcare products
  • Identify QA and testing gaps and generate solutions for process improvement

Technical Skills

  • Proficiency in manual testing techniques and methodologies
  • Testing across multiple browsers
  • Experience of using tools such as ALM Octane, JIRA
  • Platforms: Linux, Android, iOS
  • Technologies: HL7, hospital information systems, MySQL, SOAP/XML, HTTP/AJAX, DOJO, REST

Non-Technical Skills

  • UK driving licence
  • Good communication and mutual respect between yourself and team members
  • Self motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
  • Analytical and problem solving skills
  • Eagerness and ability to quickly learn new technologies and skills
  • Willingness to be flexible around the responsibilities
  • Contribute towards QA working successfully as a community of practice discipline.
  • Ability to thrive in fast paced dynamic environment

GDPR and IG

Take responsibility for data protection within the organisation; including adherence to UK regulations (GDPR) and health sector standards and ensure you are aware and follow the guidelines set out by the ICO.

The role is based near Reading, working hours are 37.5 hours per week with the need to work longer hours as required to meet customer requirements. Flexible working conditions may be offered upon request.

Email your CV to [email protected] to apply.

DevOps Support Engineer

This is an exciting time at Nervecentre, as we take our 21st century EPR system and make it available as a SaaS offering to the NHS. We’re looking for a talented DevOps Support Engineer to be a key part of this task and its ongoing support. You will be responsible for the integrity and security of our SaaS deployments, continually striving to improve performance through scaling, configuration and tuning, as well as performing upgrades, whilst ensuring zero downtime for the NHS, which never sleeps. As a support engineer, you’ll be required to participate in a collaborative and efficient support incident resolution team. Prioritising service availability and delivering detailed helpful advice, and reproducing issues internally and liaising with our Ops Support Team. You need to have the ability to work with exciting cloud technologies and a desire to work in the healthcare industry.

Qualifications

  • BSc in Computer Science or equivalent

Key Skills

  • Have significant hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Linux and Bash Scripting
  • Have practical experience with a Cloud Provider or Self-Service Infrastructure Framework (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google, OpenStack)
  • Have practical experience in managing large MySQL database instances
  • Have a focus on security, user controls, privileges and role based access control
  • Have developed, managed and tested back-up and recovery plans
  • Have solid experience with DevOps, IaC technologies, GitOps and CI/CD integration
  • Have bespoke application support experience
  • Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Have the ability to output high quality documentation
  • Have strong troubleshooting methodologies
  • Have experience in incident management
  • Demonstrate a solid understanding of information legislation, such as GDPR

Desirable Skills

  • Helm
  • Terraform
  • Ubuntu and Bash scripting
  • ArgoCD
  • Grafana and Prometheus
  • Elasticsearch and Graylog
  • Jenkins
  • Vitess

Responsibilities

  • Responding to escalations from our Ops Support Team, resolving them or passing them to an appropriate owner and tracking them through to completion.
  • Operate and adhere to the defined support ticketing flow and escalation framework.
  • Following Company processes, and taking an active role in process improvement.
  • Work collaboratively with the support team and other departments to provide excellent service to Nervecentre customers.
  • Potentially taking up to a quarter share of the out of hours support duty rota if team structure requires it.
  • Re-create customer issues on internal and production environments.
  • Create professional and detailed RCAs.
  • Contributing to the development of user guides, technical designs, implementation and support procedures and other technical documentation.
  • Monitoring our cloud environments for potential incidents or service degradation to ensure a reliable service with zero unplanned downtime.
  • Execute out-of-hours upgrades.
  • Working with stakeholders and colleagues to test the automated deployment, configuration and upgrading of the Infrastructure, Nervecentre Application, associated services (Zookeeper, Kafka, Vitess) and monitoring tools (Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Kibana), taking into account and ensuring:
    • Security (working with the CISO)
    • Scalability (zero downtime)
  • Working with colleagues on the deployed clusters to:
    • proactively monitor, identify issues, maintenance tasks, cluster scaling, security updates, and test and apply resolutions within a timely manner;
    • investigate and resolve incidents, conduct root cause analysis, and provide mitigations;
    • test and enact infrastructure, application, support services and monitoring tool upgrades;
    • test and monitor backup processes and solutions;
    • constantly improve and harden security;
    • monitor security validation and intrusion detection tools, ensure they are up-to-date, active, and monitor for incidents;
    • aid developers in investigations of reported issues.
  • Willingness to learn and adapt to new skill sets.

This full-time position will be based at our Wokingham offices.

Email your CV to [email protected] to apply.

Senior Software Engineer

Nervecentre Software Ltd is a dynamic and innovative start-up organisation, developing pioneering software systems for the global healthcare market. The product suite integrates real-time server development with mobile and web application development.

The role of a senior software developer is to be a key senior member of the development team to support the rapid growth of the business.  The key responsibilities of the role will combine all aspects of the product development lifecycle for new developments, product enhancements, customer-specific integration and developments, and providing third line support.

The role offers a rewarding environment, with strong opportunities to gain first-hand experience of customer requirements, influence product development, and opportunities to learn new skills.

Qualifications and Experience

  • 5+ years experience in software development
  • A-level, computer science or engineering degree preferred

Responsibilities include but are not limited to

  • Project planning and leadership
  • Design, development and testing of software
  • Documentation
  • Maintenance and support of software including out of hours support
  • Meeting with customers and/or clinical team to turn customer’s requirements into technical specifications
  • Assist in the ongoing building of a development team and quality assurance processes
  • Manage the simultaneous development of medium term strategic projects and short-term tactical developments.

GDPR and IG

Take responsibility for data protection within the organisation; including adherence to UK regulations (GDPR) and health sector standards and ensure you  are aware and follow the guidelines set out by the ICO,

Non-Technical Skills

  • UK driving license
  • Good English written and oral communication skills
  • Self motivated and able to work with minimal supervision
  • Analytical and problem solving skills
  • Eagerness and ability to quickly learn new technologies and skills
  • Willingness to be flexible around the responsibilities and job

Technical Skills – Require some of the following

  • Languages: Java, Javascript
  • Platforms: Linux, Android, iOS
  • Environments: Real-Time server software, Web development, Smartphone / tablet devices
  • Technologies: HL7, hospital information systems, CDA, FHIR, MySQL, SOAP/XML, HTTP/AJAX, DOJO, REST, resilient server design, Telecommunications, VoIP, SIP, XMPP
  • Graphical user interface design

The role is based in Wokingham with requirements to travel to customer premises. Working hours are 37.5 hours per week with the need to work longer hours as required to meet customer requirements.  Flexible working conditions may be offered upon request.

Email your CV to [email protected] to apply.

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