Job summary
EPR Senior Information Business Partner
37.5 hours per week
Fixed Term for 15 months
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Closing Date: 26th August 2025
Interview Date: 1st September 2025
**This post may close early due tohigh numbers of applications,so you are advised to apply promptly. **
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Main duties of the job
This post will be focused on assisting George Eliot Hospital in their journey to join this single Oracle Millennium instance. As an EPR Senior Information Business Partner you will help develop and implement the strategy for successful migration of data from legacy systems into the new EPR. The post holder will identify and translate data migration requirements into conversion processes whilst managing any risks and issues that arise. The role will involve detailed analysis and understanding of complex technical and business requirements across multiple services within and external to the Trust to migrate all data essential to service delivery into the new EPR, ensuring data quality throughout.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme - find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work with the EPR Data Migration and Reporting Lead to develop and implement data migration and reporting strategies.
- Develop and provide leadership to the data migration team, drive the delivery of the data migration Programme, motivating the team and support continual improvement.
- Lead in supporting Directorates in understanding their data quality in regards of the legacy system and the new system.
- Liaise with service managers and clinical leads within the trusts to address any data quality issues prior to migration. Ensuring that the importance of the task and possible outcomes of not undertaking this are fully explained.
- Work closely with EPR migration partners, coordinating activities and ensuring adequate data is flowing to allow successful migration.
- Lead in carrying out analysis that addresses the Trusts need to provide greater insight into data quality, supporting managers and clinicians to deliver targets against challenging deadlines.
- Support the EPR Data Migration and Reporting Lead in providing assurance and progress to the Boards and other relevant Committees or Sub-Committees on data migration.
- Ensure team and processes are in place to allow maximisation of testing during the three trial loads and full-dress rehearsal.
- Maintain and understand flows in the service areas, helping to identify areas of concern and supporting the directorates to understand why changes have occurred so that early corrective action can be taken.
- Work closely with directorate managers and clinicians to ensure they have the information they need to understand their services through EPR implantation and go-live.
- Liaise with project leads, external consultancy and other Information Department staff to identify the data and information required.
- Carries out complex data quality checking and remediation.
- Enables efficiencies by ensuring that information about data sources is documented and made available for the benefit of others.
- Clearly articulates dependencies on other teams / systems / infrastructure and builds these in to plans.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Work with the EPR Data Migration and Reporting Lead to develop and implement data migration and reporting strategies.
- Develop and provide leadership to the data migration team, drive the delivery of the data migration Programme, motivating the team and support continual improvement.
- Lead in supporting Directorates in understanding their data quality in regards of the legacy system and the new system.
- Liaise with service managers and clinical leads within the trusts to address any data quality issues prior to migration. Ensuring that the importance of the task and possible outcomes of not undertaking this are fully explained.
- Work closely with EPR migration partners, coordinating activities and ensuring adequate data is flowing to allow successful migration.
- Lead in carrying out analysis that addresses the Trusts need to provide greater insight into data quality, supporting managers and clinicians to deliver targets against challenging deadlines.
- Support the EPR Data Migration and Reporting Lead in providing assurance and progress to the Boards and other relevant Committees or Sub-Committees on data migration.
- Ensure team and processes are in place to allow maximisation of testing during the three trial loads and full-dress rehearsal.
- Maintain and understand flows in the service areas, helping to identify areas of concern and supporting the directorates to understand why changes have occurred so that early corrective action can be taken.
- Work closely with directorate managers and clinicians to ensure they have the information they need to understand their services through EPR implantation and go-live.
- Liaise with project leads, external consultancy and other Information Department staff to identify the data and information required.
- Carries out complex data quality checking and remediation.
- Enables efficiencies by ensuring that information about data sources is documented and made available for the benefit of others.
- Clearly articulates dependencies on other teams / systems / infrastructure and builds these in to plans.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Technical
Essential
- Expert level of skill in information analysis, including the ability to prepare high quality written reports turning data to information, with the ability to present and describe in a simplified manner.
- Good understanding of SQL programming.
- Experience of SQL, SSRS and Power BI
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, Powerpoint and Word
- In-depth knowledge and experience of statistical and analytical techniques.
Desirable
- Previous experience of managing RTT data assurance and validation
- Ability to develop data models to forecast different scenarios.
Leadership & engagement
Essential
- Demonstrate Management skills, including ability to motive staff while ensuring that Trust objectives are met, together with identifying and supporting staff personal and professional development needs.
- Change management skills - able to implement change effectively
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
- Influencing skills, able to initiate change across the organisation supported by data.
- Confident, highly motivated and able to use own initiative.
Person Specification
Technical
Essential
- Expert level of skill in information analysis, including the ability to prepare high quality written reports turning data to information, with the ability to present and describe in a simplified manner.
- Good understanding of SQL programming.
- Experience of SQL, SSRS and Power BI
- Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, Powerpoint and Word
- In-depth knowledge and experience of statistical and analytical techniques.
Desirable
- Previous experience of managing RTT data assurance and validation
- Ability to develop data models to forecast different scenarios.
Leadership & engagement
Essential
- Demonstrate Management skills, including ability to motive staff while ensuring that Trust objectives are met, together with identifying and supporting staff personal and professional development needs.
- Change management skills - able to implement change effectively
- Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
- Influencing skills, able to initiate change across the organisation supported by data.
- Confident, highly motivated and able to use own initiative.
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
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 (Opens in a new tab).
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 (Opens in a new tab).
