Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Services
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- 2 years (Fixed term 2 years)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 208-164-25-1
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Group Wide
- Town
- Grimsby, Hull, Scunthorpe and Goole
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
EPR Technical Delivery Lead
Band 8b
Job overview
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.
We'd love to hear from you if you have:
- 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 experienced 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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Group we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about The Humber Health Partnership and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (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 it is required for their role.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience/knowledge
- Certified Scrum Professional or other Scrum alliance qualifications
- Managing Intersystems servers/Developing with Intersystems Objects and SQL
Desirable criteria
- Education or qualifications relative to clinical or operational management within an acute healthcare environment
- Certified enhanced DevOps qualifications
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential criteria
- 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, including: planning, development, testing, integration, deployment
- Specialist knowledge and advanced understanding of a variety of development techniques and methodologies, specifically web and application development and with extensive experience in the application in a commercial or healthcare environment.
- Demonstrated at least significant experience managing a team of multi skilled developers with a strong understanding of the practical application of the Agile software development cycle 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 efficiently to avoid organisational distress
- Experience with Internet security technologies and enterprise level storage systems
- Experience of Continuous Delivery (CD) methodologies inside product development teams
Desirable criteria
- In-depth understanding of NHS and clinical practice, protocols and working method
- 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Michelle Mcdermott
- Job title
- EPR Programme Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Recruitment Team
Recruitment Office
Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital
Scartho Road
Grimsby
UK
DN31 2QQ
- Telephone
- 03033 306519
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