Job summary
- Main area
- EPR
- Grade
- 8b
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term for 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (secondment opportunity will be considered)
- Job ref
- 423-7752887
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 PER ANNUM
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/02/2026 23:59
Employer heading
EPR Senior Operations Lead (band 8b)
8b
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Trust for a fixed term. We are looking for a highly experienced, and strategic-thinking EPR Senior Operational Lead for the Airedale EPR Programme to work across the Trust’s Operational Divisions and digital teams to lead on the delivery of EPR in 2026.
Main duties of the job
As the EPR Senior Operational Lead, you will play a hands-on role as part of the programme to implement the new Oracle Health EPR at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust acting as the bridge between the programme and the Trust’s operational teams.
The post holder will have a key role in this programme by working with senior colleagues and stakeholders within Digital, within the Trust and across the Integrated Care Partnership.
The post holder will play a full and active role in clinical service delivery leadership and provide strategic direction, and management for all aspects of EPR operations, including supporting the development of a service delivery strategy and associated best-practice guidance and protocols, both for programme team members , and EPR end-users at the Trust.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated master’s level (or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience)
- Evidence of relevant CPD
Desirable criteria
- Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner or significant relevant experience
- Relevant Programme management qualification or relevant experience (for example PRINCE2 or similar)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in managing operating procedures and standards in the NHS and aligning these with business operating systems
- Experience in working alongside clinical teams to introduce operational improvement that enhances patient care and clinical/hospital systems
- Experience in producing reports for director-level meetings and working at a strategic, tactical and operational level within an acute NHS Trust
- Demonstrable experience of working with diverse teams to oversee operational change and improvement initiatives on a large scale, in a complex organisation
- Experience in managing change teams with the ability to inspire and lead the implementation of change
- Experience in setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures
- Experience in working alongside clinical teams to introduce operational improvement that enhances patient care
- Have proven experience in actively supporting teams with quality improvement activities, including leading and creating process mapping activities
- Experience in training operating procedures, and service delivery standards to users and supporting Learning teams to deliver vital systems
- Demonstrable experience in preparing, reporting on and monitoring budgets
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary workforce including clinical and non-clinical staff
- Senior leadership and team management experience in a complex organisation
Desirable criteria
- Experience of EPR implementations and managing interdependencies and interoperability between clinical informatics platforms
- Experience in working on projects relating to any of the following: Patient flow
- Demonstrated experience of delivering transformational service delivery in a Healthcare environment
- Knowledge and experience of large system deployment within a healthcare environment
- Electronic Patient Record implementation
- Experience in managing risks and reporting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Friar
- Job title
- Deputy Ops Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535 292808
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