Group EPR Programme Director | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Posting date:	27 June 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£105,385 - £121,271 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	27 July 2025
Location:	Grimsby, Hull and Scunthorpe, HU3 2JZ
Company:	Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7310810/356-25-7310810

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.

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.

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.

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 people’s 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 at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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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.


This advert closes on Monday 28 Jul 2025