OneEPR Associate Chief Nursing Information Officer
Job summary
The OneEpr Programme exists to implement a single integrated electronic patient record (EPR) designed to improve patient outcomes and the experience of delivering care for our colleagues.
The solution is the direct result of the combined vision and strategic goals of:
- Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT)
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU)
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT)
- University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust (UHS)
The Trusts will work together with their clinical and departmental experts alongside regional digital colleagues to procure and implement a joint EPR over the coming years.
The introduction of EPR will support us in transforming how we work every day, helping us to run our services with the information we need at our fingertips. It will also help us to deliver care in a different way, according to best practice, efficiently and consistently.
Main duties of the job
Our EPR will act as an enabler for a greatly improved integrated healthcare system, in which caregivers and patients have electronic access to more complete health records and are empowered to make better health decisions. The key objectives of the programme are:
- Enhance patient care by empowering clinicians, providing them with the right information at the right time and in the right place
- Improved continuity of care for many of our patients who receive treatment at more than one Trust
- Provide a single source of truth, making sharing information across pathways much simpler
- Maximise efficient working and reduce errors when making decisions
- Allow significantly greater clinical information-sharing with our partners in primary care, community care, mental health and ambulance
- Enable integration of acute services across the four Trusts
About us
Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.
The vision for our single corporate services is to:
- Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
- Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
- Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
- Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
- Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
- Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
- Build resilience for individuals and our teams.
The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally
Job description
Job responsibilities
Salary - Band 7 £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
Full Time - 37.5 hours per week
Fixed Term Contract : 2 years
Closing date for applications : 16th November 2025
- Promote the safe and efficient design, implementation, and use of nursing digital solutions to deliver improvements in quality and outcomes of care.
- Support the Chief Nursing Information Officer to provide expert clinical digital advice and guidance, working collaboratively with key stakeholders to ensure clinical involvement in the planning, development, delivery and evaluation of systems and services.
- Promote innovation and champion development of a clinically appropriate information culture across the organisation and specifically with the nursing, AHP and midwifery workforce.
- To support the use of digital by providing senior leadership and education across the Trust.
- To represent nursing, midwifery and AHPs at local and national digital forums.
- To be the link between nursing, midwifery, AHPs and Digital to ensure clinicians are involved in digital developments and provide expert oversight.
For full details of this role and responsibilities, please refer to the attached Job Description before making your application.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Holds clinical registration in a nursing, midwifery or allied health professional profession.
- Evidence of education to post graduate diploma level.
- BSc in Nursing or health related subject or working towards
- Evidence of continued professional and educational development with evidence of training and qualifications in a relevant health discipline
- Clinically competent and credible with frontline staff and senior multi-disciplinary colleagues
- Has attended an accredited CSO course or will be attending a course within 6 months of appointment to the post.
Experience
- 3 years post registration experience
- Working in a senior position in a nursing or related setting for 18 months
- Evidence of progressing clinical practice
- In audit, research and clinical effectiveness
- Demonstrate evidence of successfully leading change
Skills and Knowledge
- Knowledge is required of measures that can be effectively applied to reduce associated clinical risk.
- An in-depth understanding of the various IT packages and systems in use across the agencies
- Good organisational and time management
- Ability to manage and organise time effectively to meet the needs of the service.
- Ability to work as autonomously.
- Ability to implement, manage and support change processes.
- Ability to negotiate, persuade and stimulate staff that may be resistant to change.
- Use specialist skills to assist managers and teams in identifying potential benefits and in developing benefits realisation plans to maximise value and build upon the ideas of key stakeholders.
- Proven ability to make judgements involving complex facts or situations which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- Ability to motivate, manage and lead others.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Address
Queen Alexandra Hosp, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham
Portsmouth
England
PO6 3LY
Employer's website
https://www.porthosp.nhs.uk/work-for-us/
- Company
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- Location
- Newport, United Kingdom PO30 5TG
- Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- Location
- Newport, United Kingdom PO30 5TG
- Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £55690.00 - £62682.00 a year
- Posted