Job summary
- Main area
- N/A
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent: N/A
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 284-25-7392860-COCM
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Womens and Childrens Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £76,965 - £88,682 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Taurus Delivery
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
We are seeking an exceptional and visionary Head of Taurus Delivery (Epic) EPR to lead the strategic and operational delivery of our Epic Electronic Patient Record system. This is a pivotal role in our digital transformation journey, enabling high-quality, safe, and efficient patient care through innovative digital solutions.
As the Head of Epic EPR, you will lead the operational delivery, service management, and strategic development of the organisation’s electronic patient record system Taurus. You’ll ensure high availability, clinical alignment, secure functionality, and future-ready digital transformation aligned with trust-wide objectives.
Main duties of the job
• Lead all Taurus system-related activities, serving as the subject matter expert on system development for IM&T colleagues, clinical staff, and operational stakeholders.
• Provide expert professional advice and guidance on Taurus system development to internal teams and the wider organisation.
• Establish and maintain strong, collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders, including Divisional Directors, General Managers, Heads of Nursing, senior staff, and clinicians.
• Manage and coordinate the Taurus system resources to ensure the successful delivery of the EPR programme.
• Develop and implement strategies for all aspects of the EPR programme, including configuration management and testing
• Engage with business leads to support programme workstreams, ensuring alignment with agreed timelines and deliverables.
• Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks and issues within the clinical systems workstream of the EPR programme. Develop and implement effective mitigation strategies and escalate issues through the appropriate programme governance channels.
• Operate as a key member of the senior EPR leadership team, demonstrating strong and positive leadership to direct reports, the wider programme team, and stakeholders.
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master’s level or equivalent advanced experience in the delivery of an EPR
- Management / leadership qualification or evidence of structured leadership training
- Evidence of personal and professional development
Desirable criteria
- Epic Certification or similar EPR Qualification. (Equivalent to a postgraduate qualification)
Knowledge and Nature of Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering multiple projects to time and budget, including accurate forecasting, regular monitoring and acting in the event of projected overspend.
- Strong track record with evidence of using technology in innovative ways to enhance business and service performance
- Extensive experience in management of large scale workstream or project budgets
- Significant senior operational management experience within healthcare
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to design strategic, phased implementation plans that align with organisational vision
- Understand how to implement program objectives and that they are aligned with broader organisational strategy
- Having a track record in Identifying dependencies, resource requirements, and success indicators
- Identifying EPR program-level risks across timelines, budgets, resources, and scope
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of policies concerning Human Resource Management, IT and Finance.
- Experience in managing compliance to the Information Governance Toolkit and Assurance framework
- Active and extensive problem solving and analytical skills
- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively at all levels, particularly in explaining technical issues to non-technical people
- Ability to form excellent working relationships with patients, colleagues and other stakeholders
- Design and deliver presentations covering complex material using language understandable to non-technical staff, clinicians and other users
- A well-developed ability to persuade, negotiate and influence at the highest level
- Committed to providing an excellent service to the Trust and able to instil an inherent customer focus in others
- Able to contribute to the wider Trust agenda and work corporately
- Expert in planning and organisational change – ability to create and implement operational policies to enable new patient pathways
Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Has exceptional emotional intelligence and the ability to read a room to navigate contentious or sensitive discussion.
- Is self-aware, demonstrating an adaptive leadership capability; self-motivated and pro-active
- Able to work with flexibility and adaptability, often within situations of ambiguity or emergent certainty
- Able to maintain high levels of professionalism and leadership in the face of resistance, objection, conflict and tight deadlines
- A leader by example with a strong sense of quality and equality.
- Is a team player, but able to work on own.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Scott Hancock
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Operating Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
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