ESR Manager | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	19 Ionawr 2026
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	18 Chwefror 2026
Lleoliad:	Colchester, CO4 9YQ
Cwmni:	Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7744160/432-HR1168-25

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We’re looking for an experienced ESR professional to lead and optimise our Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and related workforce systems. As ESR Manager you will be responsible for data quality, system integrity and compliance with national standards, whilst driving improvements that make a real difference to our workforce and patient care.

You will bring a problem solving approach to your work, enjoy making process improvements and have proven experience of implementing new systems and ways of working in a complex environment.

This role involves working across multiple departments, so strong stakeholder relationships are essential. You’ll use your people skills and leadership experience to guide the ESR team, promoting excellence and growth.



ESNEFT Pay Services function brings together rostering, our in-house payroll and pensions service, ESR, and reporting under one function with a clear vision: Do it Once, Do it Right. We focus on efficiency and innovation, leveraging automation using RPA and ESRGO, and our reporting data warehouse to deliver PowerBI insights.

This post is offered as a full time post, however flexible working and part time hours will also be considered. The post will be hybrid with the main base being The Crescent in Colchester, however there will also be an expectation for the postholder to attend other Trust sites as required.


• Act as the ESR system specialist, ensuring hierarchy, data structures, and reporting align with national and financial requirements.
• Ensure data quality within ESR is maintained, queried and corrected on a regular basis.
• Build effective relationships with internal departments who are also key ESR users to support their usage and increase optimisation.
• Participate in any projects that impacts ESR acting as project lead as necessary
• Manage the ESR team
• Oversee systems security and user access, ensuring appropriate support is in place.
• Provide data analysis and bespoke reporting outside of standard team scope, ensuring the use of system

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.


This advert closes on Thursday 29 Jan 2026