Deputy Product Owner (OneEPR program)

Band: 6

Hours: 37.5 

Contract Type: Fixed-Term for 2 years

Closing date - 17 November 2025

The OneEpr Program exists to implement a single integrated electronic patient record (EPR) designed to improve patient outcomes and the experience of delivering care for our colleagues.

The solution is the direct result of the combined vision and strategic goals of:

1. Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT)

2. Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (PHU)

3. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (HHFT)

4. University Hospital Southampton Foundation Trust (UHS)

The Trusts will work together with their clinical and departmental experts alongside regional digital colleagues to procure and implement a joint EPR over the coming years .

The introduction of EPR will support us in transforming how we work every day helping us to run our services with the information we need at our fingertips. It will also help us to deliver care in a different way according to best practice efficiently and consistently.

Our EPR will act as an enabler for a greatly improved integrated healthcare system in which caregivers and patients have electronic access to more complete health records and are empowered to make better health decisions. The key objectives of the program are:

1. Enhance patient care by empowering clinicians providing them with the right information at the right time and in the right place

2. Improved continuity of care for many of our patients who receive treatment at more than one Trust

3. Provide a single source of truth making sharing information across pathways much simpler

4. Maximise efficient working and reduce errors when making decisions

5. Allow significantly greater clinical information-sharing with our partners in primary care community care mental health and ambulance

6. Enable integration of acute services across the four Trusts

Job purpose 

As part of the One Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme this role will contribute to improve the effectiveness and value of health care delivery for Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust (the Trusts). This post is a member of the Digital Service within the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) function. 

Job summary

Supporting Product management for the portfolio of patient facing IT products and managing the product(s) backlog

Supporting Stakeholder and Supplier Management within the context of Agile Software Development

Supporting the Maintenance Software User & Management Forums

Represent the user within user stories at sprint planning sessions and fulfilment of the sprint done statement.

Understand the product category to a subject matter expert level.

Promote the products at various local regional and national forums.

Ensure all relevant product documentation is maintained e.g. release notes clinical safety change management communication notifications.

Specific Core Functions

IT Deputy Product Owners are responsible for supporting internal software applications and their Agile delivery in the Trust. Post holders play a key role in software implementations migrations upgrades providing technical guidance and IT services to users and project teams. Post holders are also required to support the engagement stakeholders Trust staff and third-party suppliers where applicable to ensure services are delivered in a timely fashion to meet the requirements of the clinical and corporate business staff.

Please read the full job description attached for further details.

Qualifications :

Qualifications 

• Degree level qualification or equivalent relevant experience.       
• ITIL Foundation
• ISEB Testing Certification

Experience

• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills
• Experience managing Digital & IT and at a senior level preferably in the public sector
• Successful implementation of significant change both technical and organisational in a complex setting.
• Experience of working in a large complex organisation (in or outside the NHS) leading on digital IT and information services.
• Experience of successfully operating in and delivering priorities in a partnership environment.

Additional Information :

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ Race Equality and DisAbility and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education opinions culture ethnicity race sex gender identity and expression nation of origin age languages spoken veterans status colour religion disability sexual orientation and beliefs.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract