Head of Operational - EPR

Doncaster & Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT

The closing date is 27 July 2026

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement. Reporting to the DCOO/Programme Director, the Head of EPR Operational Change will be part of the senior management team for the EPR programme.

The Head of EPR Operational Change is responsible for four key work streams for the programme covering benefits realisation, communications, training, and business change. They will be critical to ensuring divisions and corporate services are operational ready for the change being delivered.

• Managing the overall work streams for Benefits, Business Change, Communications and Training for the EPR programme ensuring coordinated plans are in place.
• Report to the EPR Programme Board on benefits baselining and realisation.
• Responsible for monitoring the scope and progress of the changes in working practice and benefits planning/realisation to ensure that the benefits set out in the FBC are owned operationally.
• Holding accountability for understanding the underlying configuration, decision support and working processes that will be required to deliver the EPR deployment and enable associated early benefits realisation.
• Ensuring that the EPR complies with corporate and departmental policies and meets all statutory regulations and requirements.
• Identifying project related risks, reporting and managing project risks and taking appropriate steps to mitigate all identified risks and issues.
• Holding overall accountability for base‑lining the benefits in each specialty area to ensure best practice measures are applied when planning the benefits.
• Advising and providing recommendations to the EPR Programme Board/Trust Board on EPR workstream.
• Working with local operational leads to ensure that new ‘best practice’ ways of working are developed, to achieve cost‑saving benefits and improved workflow processes, whilst working to relevant legal and regulatory frameworks, Information Governance and other statutory audits and policies.

• DBTH is one of Yorkshire’s leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.
• We have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.
• We support flexible working and will do our best to accommodate your working arrangements if it works for the service.
• As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemes
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers

Please see the attached person specification for further details. Please ensure you read this document carefully.

If your application is successful you will be required to present original certificates of qualifications listed in the person specification under essential.

• Significant knowledge in operational delivery and managing acute services
• Significant management experience of working in an acute organisation
• Experience of delivering transformation projects
• Experience of balancing competing priorities and meeting personal and EPR targets within a fluctuating and demanding workload.
• Experience of presenting to board members
• Clear communication of risks and issues to a senior audience

• Master's degree level, or equivalent…