EPR Technical Delivery Lead

NHS; Goole; On-site; GBP 64,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK seeks a Technical Delivery Lead for their Electronic Patient Record Programme. This senior role involves overseeing multiple technical workstreams, ensuring governance and high-quality outcomes. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in technical leadership within digital transformation, Agile methodologies, and stakeholder engagement. This role seeks to improve patient care through innovative solutions, offering a salary range of £64,455 to £74,896 per annum.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Professional development support

Qualifications

• Proven experience in technical delivery leadership within large-scale digital transformation programmes.
• Experience managing multi-skilled development teams effectively.
• Ability to influence and negotiate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical teams in delivering EPR solutions effectively.
• Oversee integration and deployment of solutions, ensuring minimal disruption.
• Act as Scrum Master, promoting Agile methodologies.

Skills

Technical delivery leadership

Software development knowledge

Governance and compliance expertise

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder influence and negotiation

Education

Masters level qualification or equivalent experience

Certified Scrum Professional

Tools

Intersystems Objects

SQL

Job description

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and visionary Technical Delivery Lead to join our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme at Humber Health Partnership. This is a senior role where you will take ownership of multiple technical workstreams, ensuring robust governance, seamless delivery, and high‑quality outcomes that directly impact patient care.

As Technical Delivery Lead, you will lead a team of technical specialists in designing, building, testing, and implementing our new EPR system. You'll work at the heart of a complex, multi‑trust programme, ensuring technical integrity, resilience, and compliance while driving innovation and supporting our ambition to become a paper‑free organisation.

Key Qualifications

• Proven experience in technical delivery leadership within large‑scale digital transformation programmes.
• Strong knowledge of software development, integration, and architecture.
• Expertise in governance, compliance, and risk management.
• Skills in Agile methodologies and experience in leading multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Ability to influence, negotiate, and inspire across technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Main duties of the job

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the future of healthcare technology. You'll play a pivotal role in delivering a system that improves patient safety, enhances clinical outcomes, and transforms how care is delivered across our organisation.

• Lead technical teams in a matrix environment, offering expert guidance and mentoring.
• Oversee architecture, design, integration, and deployment of EPR solutions with minimal disruption to services.
• Ensure all technical activities meet industry standards, NHS compliance, and programme governance requirements.
• Act as Scrum Master, embedding Agile methodologies and promoting continuous improvement.
• Safeguard system integrity, sustainability, and security across multiple environments.
• Work closely with clinical, operational, and corporate teams, as well as third‑party suppliers, to deliver safe and effective solutions.
• Provide decisive leadership during technical incidents, ensuring rapid resolution and continuity of care.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG, and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As teaching hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job details

Date posted: 19 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: 8b

Salary: £64,455 to £74,896 a year per annum pro rata

Contract: Fixed term

Duration: 2 years

Working pattern: Full‑time

Reference number: 208‑164‑25‑1

Job locations: Group Wide – Scartho Road, Grimsby, Hull, Scunthorpe and Goole, DN33 2BA

Flexibility and Equality

We are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise it as a key contributor for recruitment and retention. We support open conversations around specific working patterns that suit your balance or a multi‑role career, working by partnership with line managers and employees to ensure equality of access.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or any other personal circumstances.

In line with GDPR, the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if required for the role.

Person Specification – Education & Qualification (Essential)

• Masters level qualification or equivalent experience/knowledge
• Certified Scrum Professional or other Scrum Alliance qualifications
• Managing Intersystems servers/Developing with Intersystems Objects and SQL

Person Specification – Education & Qualification (Desirable)

• Education or qualifications relative to clinical or operational management within an acute healthcare environment
• Certified enhanced DevOps qualifications

Person Specification – Knowledge, Training & Experience (Essential)

• Enhanced Web development & programming
• Health Interoperability standards such as HL7/FHIR knowledge and experience
• Senior management experience within the NHS
• Experience producing long‑term technically resilient software plans to support digital service objectives and product lifecycle – planning, development, testing, integration, deployment
• Specialist knowledge and advanced understanding of a variety of development techniques and methodologies, specifically web and application development, with extensive experience in a commercial or healthcare environment
• Demonstrated significant experience managing a team of multi‑skilled developers with a strong understanding of practical Agile application and its principles
• Specialist knowledge and experience in multiple database architecture, management and handling technologies and techniques
• Experience in server and software management and maintenance required to maximise service efficiency and avoid organisational distress
• Experience with Internet security technologies and enterprise level storage systems
• Experience of Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies in product development teams

Person Specification – Knowledge, Training & Experience (Desirable)

• In‑depth understanding of NHS and clinical practice, protocols and working methods
• Knowledge and experience of development using an Integration Engine
• Enterprise level storage systems, server virtualisation technologies, email security technologies, network services, Microsoft Server
• Advanced knowledge of development and testing including system planning and risk analysis

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name: Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Address: Group Wide – Scartho Road, Grimsby, Hull, Scunthorpe and Goole, DN33 2BA

Employer's website: https://www.nlg.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)