Job summary
Join Us as Group EPR Programme Director
Are you an inspiring leader with a vision for transforming healthcare through cutting-edge digital innovation? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you. The NHS Humber Health Partnership is embarking on a once-in-a-generation journey to revolutionise how we deliver patient care, and we are seeking a dynamic Group EPR Programme Director to lead this transformative programme.
As our Group EPR Programme Director, you will play a pivotal role in the procurement, implementation, and management of a new, integrated Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system across all Acute sites in the partnership. This is a key leadership position, responsible for delivering a seamless and innovative digital solution that will benefit both our staff and the patients we serve.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking a visionary and experienced leader with a deep understanding of programme management in complex organisational settings. You should have the ability to inspire and engage teams, deliver large-scale system integration projects, and effectively communicate across all levels of the organisation.
Your Key Responsibilities
Leading the strategic 10-year programme to deliver a transformative EPR system, with a focus on achieving impactful outcomes, benefits, and objectives.
Managing a programme and systems budget exceeding £150 million, ensuring efficient and effective use of resources.
Overseeing a team of direct reports and fostering collaboration across leads within multiple staffing groups and departments further engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.
Working closely with Senior Responsible Officers (SROs) and executive leads to establish and lead a Programme Management Office, ensuring the coherence and success of the programme.
Taking a lead role in corporate decision-making during your 2-year tenure, while driving the development, implementation, and monitoring of the programme strategy.
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is an incredible opportunity to make a lasting impact in the healthcare sector. By joining our forward-thinking team, you will be at the forefront of digital transformation, ensuring our services are well-equipped to meet the challenges of the future.
For further details regarding this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description.
As a Partnership we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website athttps://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is an incredible opportunity to make a lasting impact in the healthcare sector. By joining our forward-thinking team, you will be at the forefront of digital transformation, ensuring our services are well-equipped to meet the challenges of the future.
For further details regarding this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description.
As a Partnership we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website athttps://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Health Leadership for digital change leaders or equivalent experience.
- IT Service / project management qualification e.g. ITIL, MSCE, MSC or equivalent; MSP, PRINCE2 or similar Agile training or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of Continuous Personal Development.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Substantial experience of large (multi-£million) programmes, delivering Digitally enabled change across public and private sector contexts
- Strong, in-depth, experience of working in technology in both healthcare and the wider public sector.
- Extensive, in-depth experience of strategic financial management, with significant exposure to resourcing large and complex capital projects.
- Experience in resolving major programme management, delays, technical and commercial issues in complicated financial transactions.
- Experience of highly complex report writing and business planning at both operational and strategic level and able to plan services and develop strategies and policies.
- Experience of effective major incident management and service restoration, ensuring good communications during the incident and excellent problem management techniques to identify the root cause.
- Specialist knowledge and awareness of change management tools and techniques
- Excellent in-depth, professional understanding and specialist knowledge of complex and challenging programme management.
- Experienced in business process mapping and value mapping methodologies.
- Enterprise architecture framework knowledge.
- Considerable experience of formulating long term, organisation wide strategic plans and development of projects resulting in positive value for money outcomes.
Desirable
- Substantial experience of large EPR programmes.
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent professional qualification or equivalent experience.
- Post Graduate Diploma in Digital Health Leadership for digital change leaders or equivalent experience.
- IT Service / project management qualification e.g. ITIL, MSCE, MSC or equivalent; MSP, PRINCE2 or similar Agile training or equivalent experience.
- Evidence of Continuous Personal Development.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Substantial experience of large (multi-£million) programmes, delivering Digitally enabled change across public and private sector contexts
- Strong, in-depth, experience of working in technology in both healthcare and the wider public sector.
- Extensive, in-depth experience of strategic financial management, with significant exposure to resourcing large and complex capital projects.
- Experience in resolving major programme management, delays, technical and commercial issues in complicated financial transactions.
- Experience of highly complex report writing and business planning at both operational and strategic level and able to plan services and develop strategies and policies.
- Experience of effective major incident management and service restoration, ensuring good communications during the incident and excellent problem management techniques to identify the root cause.
- Specialist knowledge and awareness of change management tools and techniques
- Excellent in-depth, professional understanding and specialist knowledge of complex and challenging programme management.
- Experienced in business process mapping and value mapping methodologies.
- Enterprise architecture framework knowledge.
- Considerable experience of formulating long term, organisation wide strategic plans and development of projects resulting in positive value for money outcomes.
Desirable
- Substantial experience of large EPR programmes.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
