EPR Programme Manager - Band 8b

Job summary

COVENTRY & WARWICKSHIRE PARTNERSHIP TRUST

Are you an experienced EPR Programme Manager who is looking for their next opportunity to lead the procurement, design, delivery, and implementation of our new electronic patient record?

Are you someone with a strong transformational leadership style, who is innovative, collaborative, and passionate about driving change. If you are ready for a new challenge and want to make a significant impact, then this is the job for you.

Apply today and join us on this exciting journey!

We have an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced EPR Programme Manager to join our multi-professional digital team to manage the procurement and implementation of a new Electronic Patient Record. This will be one of our biggest and most high profile programmes of digital clinical transformation so we are looking for someone with energy, passion and the resilience to manage the complexities and high risks involved in this critical programme of work. Our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme will underpin everything we do for our patients and carers, people, and communities, as well as creating a working environment that enables our staff to deliver the best care they can, every day. The successful candidate will hold responsibility for overseeing the whole EPR programme, ensuring we identify clear outcomes, benefits and objectives and deliver these safely and on time.

Main duties of the job

The EPR Programme Manager will report to the EPR Programme Lead, working closely with the workstream chairs, the EPR Chief Clinical Information Officer, and programme Executive leads to provide expert EPR Programme management. The post will oversee various workstreams supporting the successful implementation of the chosen system within the programmes' timeframe and budget.

The post holder will manage all aspects of the programme from inception to completion including planning, feasibility, costing, project management, design, and contract administration. They will provide effective management and delivery of concurrent multi-stranded projects at multiple stages to ensure projects are delivered on time, to the required quality, within budget, and alignment is maintained to the Trust's Integrated Business Plan. They will establish a programme management approach to the portfolio of interdependent projects to deliver transparency and efficiency and provide the leadership to embed a strong change management culture. They will manage the Trust's external partnerships in relation to the EPR Programme and ensure that the changes are fully embedded and sustained within the organisation and that the identified benefits are achieved.

Key to the success of the EPR programme will be to also ensure it is clinically-led throughout. The EPR Programme Manager role will be instrumental in driving forward clinical and end-user engagement alongside workstream Chairs.

About us

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

• generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
• excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
• salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
• discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
• wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
• staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.