Job vacancy: EPR Senior Information Business Partner, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust, Nuneaton

Job summary

Main area: Information
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Fixed term: 15 months (EPR role)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 230-52753591-EPR-D

Employer: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: George Eliot Hospital
Town: Nuneaton
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/08/2025 23:59

EPR Senior Information Business Partner

NHS AfC: Band 8a

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

Our vision is "to EXCEL at patient care". If you think you've got what it takes, help us realise this and join #TeamEliot.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Work with the EPR Data Migration and Reporting Lead to develop and implement data migration and reporting strategies.
Develop and provide leadership to the data migration team, drive the delivery of the data migration Programme, motivating the team and support continual improvement.
Lead in supporting Directorates in understanding their data quality in regards of the legacy system and the new system.
Liaise with service managers and clinical leads within the trusts to address any data quality issues prior to migration. Ensuring that the importance of the task and possible outcomes of not undertaking this are fully explained.
Work closely with EPR migration partners, coordinating activities and ensuring adequate data is flowing to allow successful migration.
Lead in carrying out analysis that addresses the Trust’s need to provide greater insight into data quality, supporting managers and clinicians to deliver targets against challenging deadlines.
Support the EPR Data Migration and Reporting Lead in providing assurance and progress to the Boards and other relevant Committees or Sub-Committees on data migration.
Ensure team and processes are in place to allow maximisation of testing during the three trial loads and full-dress rehearsal.
Maintain and understand flows in the service areas, helping to identify areas of concern and supporting the directorates to understand why changes have occurred so that early corrective action can be taken.
Work closely with directorate managers and clinicians to ensure they have the information they need to understand their services through EPR implantation and go-live.
Liaise with project leads, external consultancy and other Information Department staff to identify the data and information required.
Carries out complex data quality checking and remediation.
Enables efficiencies by ensuring that information about data sources is documented and made available for the benefit of others.
Clearly articulates dependencies on other teams / systems / infrastructure and builds these in to plans.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Person specification

Technical

Essential criteria

Expert level of skill in information analysis, including the ability to prepare high quality written reports turning data to information, with the ability to present and describe in a simplified manner.
Good understanding of SQL programming.
Experience of SQL, SSRS and Power BI
Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, Powerpoint and Word
In-depth knowledge and experience of statistical and analytical techniques.

Desirable criteria

Previous experience of managing RTT data assurance and validation
Ability to develop data models to forecast different scenarios.

Leadership & engagement

Essential criteria

Demonstrate Management skills, including ability to motive staff while ensuring that Trust objectives are met, together with identifying and supporting staff personal and professional development needs.
Change management skills – able to implement change effectively
Developed communication skills for delivering key messages to a range of stakeholders both internal and external (including outside the NHS) to the organisation, some at very senior level.
Influencing skills, able to initiate change across the organisation supported by data.
Confident, highly motivated and able to use own initiative.

Please note:

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC where all subsequent information regarding your application will be generated. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages via the NHS Jobs website. Furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails/messages sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.

By applying for this post you are consenting to George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system, TRAC.

The Job application data you provide will be used to assess your application for employment at GEH, to verify your information and conduct reference checks, and to communicate with you. If you accept employment with GEH, the information collected will become part of your employment record and will be used for employment purposes.

All information provided will be used for recruitment purposes only and processed in a lawful, fair and transparent manner.

Other:

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.

In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our excel behaviours with a vision to create a workplace that represents a culture of kindness, joy and inclusion.