HR Lead - EPR Programme

Integrated Care System; Basingstoke; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Part time

Job summary

An opportunity exists for an HR Lead - EPR Programme at a leading Integrated Care System in Basingstoke. This pivotal role requires a strategic mindset and proven HR expertise to devise and implement resourcing strategies for the Electronic Patient Record Programme. The ideal candidate will possess a Master's level Education and extensive experience in recruitment and workforce management within a complex healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Significant experience of working at a senior level in a large organisation.
• Extensive knowledge of employment legislation and best practices.
• Demonstrable experience of successfully implementing employment policy.

Responsibilities

• Devise the resourcing strategy for the EPR Programme.
• Support the Programme Director with workforce issues.
• Lead the coordination of recruitment across NHS Trusts.

Skills

Communication Skills

Relationship Management

Education

Master's Level Education

CIPD Qualification

Job description

Go back Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

HR Lead - EPR Programme

The closing date is 15 August 2025

This role is only open to applicants that currently work within an NHS Trust within the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Integrated Care System (HIOW ICS).

Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Acute Care Collaborative have come together as part of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) as an Acute Provider Collaborative (APC) to invest in Electronic Patient Record (EPR) functionality. This is to meet the needs of our whole ICS population, recognising that the organisation of clinical care needs to change and develop radically in order to meet the challenges we face.

The post holder will be responsible for

Devising the resourcing strategy for the EPR Programme

Coordinating recruitment activity across the programme and each individual Trust

Providing reports on the resourcing workstream, including identifying risks, issues and mitigations

Supporting the Programme Director and Programme Manager with any workforce issues

Main duties of the job

• To initiate and lead the resourcing strategy for the EPR Programme that reflects the needs of the programme as it moves through its critical path.
• To liaise with the Recruitment and Temporary Staffing teams in the respective Trusts and ensure the resourcing activity to the EPR programme across the 3 Trusts is well managed and co-ordinated.
• Work with Change and Engagement colleagues to identify the skills, roles, and competencies needed to support the digital transformation, and plan for future recruitment, development, and retention of talent.
• To recruit to the core programme and Trust level roles as required throughout the lifecycle of the EPR programme.
• Work with the EPR Programme Director, and the Recruitment and Temporary Staffing teams at the respective Trusts to ensure optimum numbers of staff are employed so there is an appropriate level and type of workforce to enable the successful implementation and ongoing running of the EPR Programme.
• Develop and deliver successful resourcing, onboarding, induction and mandatory training requirements.
• Design and carry out organisation development initiatives to support the transition to new ways of working, including restructuring, role redefinition, and change management

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change:Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, searchHHFT Climate Actionor [e-mail].

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details including main responsibilities.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Educated to Master's level or able to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge.
• Evidence of professional development.
• Up to date and extensive highly specialist knowledge of employment legislation and best practice in employment.
• CIPD Qualified (Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development)
• Workforce Planning

Experience and Knowledge

• Significant experience of working at a senior level in a large organisation including having worked at a strategic level within a complex multi-professional health or public organisation.
• Experience of advising managers on resourcing issues up to Director level.
• Demonstrable experience of employment policy and successful implementation.
• Able to demonstrate ability to develop innovative recruitment and retention strategies and initiatives
• Experience of legislation and policy in regard to the use of temporary workers, Bank, Agency and Contractors.
• Demonstrable experience of leading a multi-functional recruitment and resource team.
• Demonstrable experience of effective performance management of team.
• Understanding of delivery of large scale health IT programmes
• Detailed knowledge of UK employment legislation as relevant to recruitment and selection.
• Change/short term project methodology proficient
• Strong relationship management skills including the proven ability to quickly build strong personal networks with stakeholders and colleagues.
• Knowledge and understanding of the wider NHS agenda recruitment and resource frameworks and workforce strategies.
• Experience of project management to achieve change.
• Experience of workforce planning, through service change / and review of best practice

Skills and Ability

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and evidence of ability to motivate, negotiate, train, coach and reassure in a difficult or uncertain environment and facilitation
• Able to assimilate multi-disciplinary information and develop solutions
• Exceptional presentational abilities including paper reporting and presenting to senior leaders and clinicians
• Able to work under pressure, prioritise and to deliver outcomes

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.

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital

£46,148 to £52,809 a yearBand 7 or Extra Responsibility Allowance

Contract

Secondment

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

251-HREPR

Job locations

Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital