Principal Enterprise Architect (OneEPR)

NHS Band 8b: Salary 64455 - 74896.

Contract: Fixed Term 2 years

Full Time: 37.5 hours per week 

Closing date for applications: 14th December 2025. 

The OneEPR Programme exists to implement a single integrated electronic patient record (EPR) designed to improve patient outcomes and the experience of delivering care for out patients. 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 programme 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

Key Responsibilities:

The Principal Enterprise Architect reports to the Head of Technical Delivery and is a key member of the IT Department; providing technical leadership and standards in critical areas of digital technology service resilience and solution provision ensuring the delivering of highly performing IT service that can underpin a digitally mature hospital. 

The role includes leadership and management responsibility when deputising for the Head of Technical Delivery and is required to maintain relationships and attend meetings within the department the Trust and Integrated Care Systems (ICS) groups.  The role is also responsible in supporting the Head of Technical Delivery to ensure the Trusts Digital Infrastructure Strategy is implemented and Departmental objectives & targets achieved including people performance and financial objectives.

The Principal Enterprise Architect is expected to provide technical leadership at the Department level as well as departmental IT groups such as Radiology and SWASH working with our teams subject matter experts exhibiting confidence and supporting development of the Trusts highly complex digital services.  The role will also be required to provide guidance and sign-off with governance and support stakeholders with navigating requirements into the IT department.

The Principal Enterprise Architect role is a hands-on operational role pivotal in delivering fit for purpose and safe digital services to the Trust.  The role is key to maintaining business-as-usual services and identifying and delivering new and more efficient models of service delivery. Whilst also supporting the Head of Technical Delivery in strategically determining the future state architecture required to underpin the increasing hospital digital maturity and increasing expectations on technology performance and capability. 

To enable them to execute these responsibilities the post holder is expected to provide proactive and visible technical leadership. This will span four key areas; BAU Technical Implementation Capacity & Performance Tactical Solution Design and Strategic Development & Delivery.  All technical leaders are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and as the deputy to the Head of Technical Delivery when necessary to also take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility in order to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust.

The Head of Technical Delivery is responsible for ensuring that IT networks datacentre modern workspace & cloud services are designed and implemented to support the delivery of safe effective and efficient digital systems and services backed up with effective supporting services to support users of the Trusts IT network systems and resources.  The Principal Architect will be expected to provide input to decision making and have autonomy to ensure that there are appropriate systems and processes in place to deliver objectives and drive forward improvements in the operational effectiveness of the IT Department.

For full details of this role please refer to the enclosed Job Description before making your application. 

Qualifications :

• Educated to Degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Technical accreditation in at least two of the following; Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Certified Virtualisation Expert (CVE) or Citrix Certified Architect (CCA)
• ITIL Foundation

• ITIL Practitioner Certificates
• Project management foundation qualification PRINCE2 Agile or equivalent

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