Chief Nursing Information Officer (Core Team) - EPR Programme

Employer Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital Town Basingstoke Salary £62,215 – £72,293 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/08/2025 08:00

Chief Nursing Information Officer (Core Team) – EPR Programme

NHS AfC: Band 8b

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.

Job overview

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.

Possessing outstanding communication skills, the CNIO is the translator and main point of liaison for nursing informatics, nursing and midwifery management and digital professionals. Working alongside the local Trust CNIOs, CCIOs and programme team, the CNIO will own the strategic vision for how the EPR will enhance nursing and midwifery practices, clinical quality, and patient safety and the nursing digital work on the selection, development, and deployment of the chosen solution to ensure smooth integration into nursing clinical workflows. The post holder will promote and champion the EPR across the ICS.

The role will include a mix of home and cross site working.

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.

Working for our organisation

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 Action or .

Detailed job description and main 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

Our commitment to you:

We are committed to equality and diversity in both the provision of our services and how we recruit and manage our staff. Applications are encouraged from everyone with the necessary attributes for the job, irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working – all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.

The paperwork:

• HHFT is committed to putting the safety and care of our patients first – as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues. Therefore, we would recommend that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 and that you understand that we are treating COVID-19 positive patients within our services.
• Shortlisted candidates will be contacted at least 5 working days before the scheduled interview date. Applications will be submitted directly into our preferred third party recruitment system (Trac). All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs via email – please ensure to check your junk/spam folders.
• All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post.
• In compliance with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, all applicants must be able to communicate fluently in English to an appropriate standard which will be assessed as part of the selection process.
• This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date. If you intend to apply you are advised not to delay submitting your completed application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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