Chief Nurse /Midwife/AHP Information Officer EPR
Job summary
The Chief Nursing/Midwife/AHP Information Officer (CN/ MW/AHPIO) for the EPR Programme provides strategic clinical leadership for digital transformation across nursing, midwifery & allied health professions, specifically focused on the implementation, optimisation & ongoing maturity of the new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.
This fixed-term 12-month role acts as a crucial bridge between frontline clinical services & the digital programme, ensuring that the EPR supports safe, patient-centred care & aligns with national standards, operational needs, and partnership requirements across Airedale, Bradford Teaching Hospitals, and Calderdale & Huddersfield.
The post holder will lead the EPR Clinical Informatics Team, guide clinical subject matter experts, and shape clinical workflow design, testing, deployment and optimisation. They are responsible for embedding digital ways of working, driving clinical readiness for go-live, supporting benefits realisation, and ensuring clinical risks are identified, escalated, and mitigated.
The role requires strong stakeholder engagement across internal & external partners, effective communication of complex digital-clinical issues, and leadership of change management activities across clinical divisions. The CN/AHPIO will also contribute to governance, training alignment, quality improvement, and strategic planning, ensuring that EPR-enabled care is safe, effective, efficient, and future-focused.
Main duties of the job
Provide senior clinical leadership for nursing, midwifery and AHP contributions to the Trust's Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme. Act as the key link between clinical services and the digital teams to ensure EPR design and configuration support safe, efficient and patient-centred care. Lead the EPR Clinical Informatics Team, guiding clinical SMEs and ensuring digital workflows align with operational practice. Oversee clinical aspects of EPR design, build, testing, readiness and go-live activities across all relevant services. Drive post-go-live optimisation, supporting clinical teams to embed new digital ways of working. Identify, assess and mitigate clinical safety risks in partnership with the Clinical Safety Officer. Lead clinical engagement, communication and change management across the Trust and with partner organisations (BTHFT and CHFT). Represent nursing and AHP digital priorities in programme boards, working groups and external stakeholder meetings. Support quality improvement, benefits realisation, and development of policies, SOPs and training aligned to EPR workflows. Contribute to programme planning, risk and issue management, and production of programme documentation and reports. Build collaborative relationships with suppliers, partner Trusts, and internal stakeholders to deliver a standardised, safe approach to digital care.
About us
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
Advert will close at midnight 05.01.26
Shortlisting will take place on 06.01.26
Interviews will take place on 12.02.26
Person Specification
Knowledge
- Knowledge and experience of Delivering complex healthcare within an acute setting
- The ability to use digital technology effectively to support a productive team working environment.
- oKnowledge and experience of large system deployment within a healthcare environment.
- oExperience in managing risks and reporting
Qualifications
- Nursing & Midwifery Council Registration / AHP Professional Registration
- Master's degree/postgraduate qualification or significant relevant clinical experience in a complex NHS organisation
- Digital Leadership qualification, or working towards
- Experience of an Electronic Patient Record, or other Health Information System implementation
Experience
- Demonstrable experience of working with diverse teams to oversee change and improvement initiatives on a large scale, in a complex organisation
- Solid experience in managing complex care delivery in the NHS or a care environment
- Experience in setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Manage project inter-dependencies working alongside other senior team members and key suppliers to align objectives across the programme
- Demonstrated experience of delivering transformational service delivery in a Healthcare environment
- Experience in managing risks and reporting
- Experience in process mapping and business planning processes
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Skipton Road
Keighley
BD20 6TD
Employer's website
https://www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk