OneEPR Digital Clinical Lead Practitioner

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Digital Clinical Lead who is a registered Nurse, Midwife, or Allied Health Professional. This role involves the configuration and optimisation of electronic patient record systems, aiming to enhance patient outcomes. Applicants should have significant clinical experience and a degree-level qualification. The role offers a fixed-term contract with a competitive salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 pro rata, per annum.

Qualifications

• Significant clinical experience of working as a nurse, AHP or Midwife within adult acute or specialist services.
• Experience working in a band 6 nursing or related setting for 6-12 months.
• Evidence of successfully leading change.

Responsibilities

• Play a pivotal role in the configuration, deployment, and optimisation of the EPR and associated systems.
• Ensure safe, efficient, and user-centred adoption across PHU and IWT.
• Implement a single integrated electronic patient record designed to improve patient outcomes.

Skills

Clinical experience

Digital innovation

Project management

Coaching and teaching

Using EPR systems

Education

Degree level qualification or equivalent professional qualification

Job description

Overview

Go back Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

The closing date is 16 November 2025

Fixed term contract: 2 years

Isle of Wight NHS Trust: 2 full time Vacancies

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust : 2 full time vacancies and 1 part time vacancy

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisation. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites.

For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

Main duties of the job

The Band 7 Digital Clinical Lead will be a registered Nurse, Midwife, or Allied Health Professional (AHP) with strong clinical experience and a passion for digital innovation. They will play a pivotal role in the configuration, deployment, and optimisation of the EPR and associated systems, ensuring safe, efficient, and user-centred adoption across PHU and IWT.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The vision for our single corporate services is to:

• Be an employer of choice for corporate talent, attracting and retaining people who share our values for excellence in care and welcome the opportunity to benefit from the broad range of flexible career and development opportunities we can offer.
• Improve efficiency through simplified and standardised policies, processes, and systems, drawing on the best from both Trusts.
• Do things once and reduce any duplication on transactional tasks giving corporate staff the ability to focus on higher value and more diverse activities.
• Co-invest in the latest digital solutions and standardise our approach, meaning we do things once for both organisations.
• Improve learning and development opportunities and sharing best practice, upskilling both Trusts.
• Co-locate teams in purpose-built facilities on the Island and in Portsmouth to enable closer working and sharing.
• Build resilience for individuals and our teams.

Job responsibilities

The OneEpr Program exists to implement a single integrated electronic patient record (EPR) designed to improve patient outcomes and the experience of delivering care for our colleagues.

The solution is the direct result of the combined vision and strategic goals of:

1. Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT)
2. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU)
3. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT)
4. University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust (UHS)

The Trusts will work together with their clinical and departmental experts alongside regional digital colleagues to procure and implement a joint EPR over the coming years.

The introduction of EPR will support us in transforming how we work every day, helping us to run our services with the information we need at our fingertips. It will also help us to deliver care in a different way, according to best practice, efficiently and consistently.

Our EPR will act as an enabler for a greatly improved integrated healthcare system, in which caregivers and patients have electronic access to more complete health records and are empowered to make better health decisions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or holds an equivalent professional qualification / significant relevant experience.

Experience

• Significant clinical experience of working as a nurse, AHP or Midwife within adult acute or specialist services
• Working in a band 6 nursing or related setting for 6-12 months
• Evidence of progressing clinical practice In audit, research and clinical effectiveness
• Demonstrate evidence of successfully leading change
• Using an EPR or other digital clinical systems
• Using an EPR (Electronic Patient Record)
• Using technology to improve processes
• Presenting to large and mixed audiences
• Coaching, teaching, or training including development and delivery of materials
• Testing and evaluation of software systems
• Project management delivery to deadlines within scope and on budget
• Working with commercial suppliers

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.

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year pro rata, per annum