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Chief Nursing Information Officer (Core Team) - 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 Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) is a nursing leader responsible and accountable for advancing clinical quality and patient safety through the delivery of the EPR programme with regards to nursing and AHP work practices. This role is pivotal in transforming patient care through innovative digital solutions.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the strategic, development and implementation of the chosen EPR; to support nursing / clinical practice.
• Provide liaison between IT function, programme team and nursing/midwifery community in the planning and implementation of the EPR. Serve as principal nursing and AHP digital advisor to the Programme Director, CIOs and CCIO.
• Represent the nursing workforce as the main point of contact for EPR and attend all EPR related meetings and committees. Advise relevant parties on, and be accountable for, the impact of the single EPR on nursing practices. To be an EPR change champion leading the super user communities across the ICB.
• Sign off final solution on behalf of nursing/midwifery.
• Critique and refine programme plans, assess team capability and approaches used, and monitor delivery of capability to align with strategic priorities within the Trust.
• Assess risks to delivery of team capability and hold individuals to account for EPR delivery against realistic objectives in conjunction with the CCIO.
• Investigate the reporting of nursing errors where EPR is a contributing factor.
• Contribute to the review and decision-making processes for any systemised changes required to deliver the EPR programme.
• Monitor and review clinical safety standards during the development and implementation of EPR processes and systems.

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 contactclimateaction@hhft.nhs.uk.

Job responsibilities

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

Person Specification

Training & Qualifications

• Nursing or Allied Health professional qualification
• Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in a health care setting
• Holds a relevant project management qualification (e.g. Prince2 Practitioner) or can demonstrate equivalent knowledge obtained through experience

Experience and Knowledge

• Demonstrates EPR knowledge and skills
• Experience of developing, testing and evaluation clinical software systems
• Experience of having delivered clinical / nursing IT projects, leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements
• Experience of risk assessment and risk management
• Experience of preparing reports for consideration and operational or strategic level

Skills and Ability

• Demonstrates knowledge and ability to advise the senior staff members on professional issues
• Experience presenting and communicating to large groups, and facilitation of multi-professional groups
• Highly developed communication and influencing skills with the ability to network and build relationships at all levels, including interpersonal skills, liaison and negotiation skills
• Able to build rapport and credibility with senior nursing and managerial colleagues
• Exceptional organisation and strategic level logistics planning skills
• Demonstrates the ability to analyse and interpret technical, sensitive or contentious information and present this to a variety of audiences
• Leadership qualities with the ability to lead, manage and motivate staff into achieving a common goal.

Other Specific Requirements

• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy
• Effective organisational skills and the ability to prioritise and plan, balancing priorities and deadlines
• Problem solving skills and ability to use own initiative
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and to prioritise workload in a challenging and demanding environment
• Effective IT skills including relevant experience using Microsoft Office applications
• Excellent communication (verbal, written and listening) and interpersonal skills
• Able to produce clear concise minutes of meetings
• Flexibility and adaptability to changing situations
• Ability to act diplomatically and sympathetically, maintaining confidentiality at all times
• Proven ability to respond to the unexpected and be able to make judgements around when decisions are urgent, can be taken independently or when it may be necessary to escalate

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

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Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital