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Job overview

The ambition of the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Integrated Care System is to have a single Electronic Patient Record System. An exciting fixed-term opportunity has become available to work within the UHNM IM&T until March 2025. This is for an EPR Project Support Officer to work with both IM&T and wider ICS partners to support the completion of the business case as well as procurement through to contract.  The role is until March 2025, however, should the Trust and ICS be successful in it's business case this role would be extended to support the delivery and implementation of the EPR solution alongside the wider project team.  

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will support the EPR Programme Director to ensure successful delivery of the overall EPR programme from initiation to full operational status, ensuring achievement of agreed benefits within agreed timescales and budgets set by the business/project sponsor. 
• The post holder is required to provide a full and comprehensive Project Support service. Where required, this will involve providing a full administrative service to meetings/committees at a Board Sub-Committee/Forum level including the taking and preparing of comprehensive minutes and the collation and timely distribution of papers. Liaison with other departments and external organisations will be required by the post holder. 
• The post holder will be required to use their own initiative on a daily basis and will also be required to deal with queries on behalf of the EPR Programme Director. In addition the post holder will be required to undertake some management of project tasks, gathering information and putting together reports and presentations including Gantt charts, issue and risks log and coordinating meetings and diaries. 
• The post holder will be responsible for supporting the EPR programme team in the implementation of a range of Capital funded UHNM Estate projects.
• The post holder will be responsible for supporting the project team in ensuring the successful delivery of projects to the required standard of quality and within the specified constraints of time and cost.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.