Role Overview
Join us to lead the Trusts digital systems including a prominent EPR programme so clinicians and services have reliable, safe and user centred technology every day. As Head of Digital Systems & EPR, you’ll set direction, steward delivery and benefits realisation, and partner closely with the CIO, clinical leaders and ICs partners to translate strategy into improved patient experience and operational performance.
You’ll manage a skilled team, vendor relationships and budgets, ensuring our business and clinical systems meet national standards and local priorities. This is a role for a collaborative leader who can simplify complexity, drive change, and champion quality, safety and governance through digital. You’ll be part of a values driven, research active, sustainability focused organisation where your work genuinely improves lives.
Reporting to the CIO, you’ll partner with clinical leaders and IC colleagues to prioritise what matters, shape roadmaps, and deliver change that improves patient experience and operational performance. You’ll lead a talented team, manage suppliers and budgets, and ensure upgrades and programmes land safely, governed well and with benefits realised. You’ll champion standards, security and sustainability, communicate clearly across all levels, and turn complex needs into simple, usable solutions.
If you love leading people, delivering outcomes and making digital work for patients and staff, this is the role for you.
About the Trust
We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.
Equal Opportunities Statement
We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented.
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