Principal Enterprise Architect (OneEPR)
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 out patients. The solution is the direct result of the combined vision and strategic goals of:
1. Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT)
2. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU)
3. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT)
4. 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.
Main duties of the job
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.
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:
1. Enhance patient care by empowering clinicians, providing them with the right information at the right time and in the right place
2. Improved continuity of care for many of our patients who receive treatment at more than one Trust
3. Provide a single source of truth, making sharing information across pathways much simpler
4. Maximise efficient working and reduce errors when making decisions
5. Allow significantly greater clinical information-sharing with our partners in primary care, community care, mental health and ambulance
6. 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
NHS Band 8b: Salary £64,455 - £74,896.
Contract: Fixed Term 2 years
Full Time: 37.5 hours per week
Closing date for applications: 14th December 2025.
Key Responsibilities:
The Principal Enterprise Architect reports to the Head of Technical Delivery and is a key member of the IT Department; providing technical leadership and standards in critical areas of digital technology, service resilience and solution provision ensuring the delivering of highly performing IT service that can underpin a digitally mature hospital.
The role includes leadership and management responsibility when deputising for the Head of Technical Delivery, and is required to maintain relationships and attend meetings within the department, the Trust and Integrated Care Systems (ICS) groups. The role is also responsible in supporting the Head of Technical Delivery to ensure the Trusts Digital Infrastructure Strategy is implemented and Departmental objectives & targets achieved, including people, performance and financial objectives.
The Principal Enterprise Architect is expected to provide technical leadership at the Department level, as well as departmental IT groups such as Radiology and SWASH, working with our teams subject matter experts, exhibiting confidence, and supporting development of the Trusts highly complex digital services. The role will also be required to provide guidance and sign-off with governance, and support stakeholders with navigating requirements into the IT department.
The Principal Enterprise Architect role is a hands-on operational role pivotal in delivering fit for purpose and safe digital services to the Trust. The role is key to maintaining business-as-usual services and identifying and delivering new and more efficient models of service delivery. Whilst also supporting the Head of Technical Delivery in strategically determining the future state architecture required to underpin the increasing hospital digital maturity and increasing expectations on technology performance and capability.
To enable them to execute these responsibilities the post holder is expected to provide proactive and visible technical leadership. This will span four key areas; BAU Technical Implementation, Capacity & Performance, Tactical Solution Design and Strategic Development & Delivery. All technical leaders are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and as the deputy to the Head of Technical Delivery, when necessary, to also take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility, in order to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust.
The Head of Technical Delivery is responsible for ensuring that IT networks, datacentre, modern workspace & cloud services are designed and implemented to support the delivery of safe, effective and efficient digital systems and services, backed up with effective supporting services to support users of the Trusts IT network, systems and resources. The Principal Architect will be expected to provide input to decision making and have autonomy to ensure that there are appropriate systems and processes in place to deliver objectives and drive forward improvements in the operational effectiveness of the IT Department.
For full details of this role, please refer to the enclosed Job Description before making your application.
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. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally. For internal applicants the existing primary location will remain unchanged. The staff mobility local agreement will apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Educated to Degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Technical accreditation in at least two of the following; Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Virtualisation Expert (CVE) or Citrix Certified Architect (CCA)
- ITIL Foundation
- ITIL Practitioner Certificates
- Project management foundation qualification, PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent
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
- £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
- Location
- Newport, United Kingdom PO30 5TG
- Employment Type
- Fixed-Term
- Salary
- £64455.00 - £74896.00 a year
- Posted