Associate Chief Nurse (EPR)

Job overview

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) provides acute and community services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley.  Our trust vision is to be exceptional - in the quality of our patient care, our support for colleagues, and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve these aims, we are embarking on the biggest programme of digitally-enabled clinical and operational transformation we have ever undertaken.  The Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Acceleration Programme is our exciting and challenging programme that will transform the way we deliver health and care.  We will be implementing the Epic EPR solution  already in place in our SEL partner organisations to enable new pathways and models of care across the region.

As Associate Chief Nurse (EPR), you will make a lasting impact on the way we deliver care, driving innovation across our organisation.  You will lead the digital transformation for nursing, midwifery, and AHP processes and change management.

Main duties of the job

The Associate Chief Nurse (EPR)  will lead the development of clinically-appropriate digital transformation that improves patient outcomes, experience, and workforce efficiency.

They will provide strategic and clinical expertise to ensure the successful implementation of the programme.  The role will ensure that the EPR supports safe, efficient and effective clinical processes, across nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals.

The Associate Chief Nurse (EPR)  is accountable to the Chief Nursing Officer and the EPR Programme.  The role  will work in close partnership with the EPR Programme Director, CCIO, COIO, CDIO, clinical digital nursing team and other programme leaders.

The post holder will be responsible for supporting a large scale and  portfolio of work that will have impact across the organisation.  They will lead the direction of digital transformation for nursing, midwifery, and AHP processes and change management in the portfolio.  They will support compliance with the safety, quality and professional national, regional, and trust standards, protocols, and guidance.

This is a senior clinical leadership role acting as a decision maker and key advisor on nursing, midwifery and AHP matters to senior clinical, operational, technology, and programme management colleagues, as well as leading the transition to new digital ways of working with the Chief Nursing Officer and other executive leaders.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Take the nursing, midwifery and AHP (NMAHP) lead in decision making, design, implementation, and adoption of the EPR and associated systems and hardware that impact trust operations
• Jointly responsible with the CCIO, COIO and nursing leadership for capture and realisation of the benefits of the programme for clinical staff
• Responsible for developing, managing and tracking benefits in relation to nursing, midwifery and AHP workflows and staffing
• Serve as the strategic digital voice for trust clinical practice and ensure the CNO and Directors of Nursing and midwifery are informed and briefed on EPR and understand the impact at every stage of the programme
• Provide a clinical voice within the EPR Acceleration Programme to ensure we deliver the most efficient and safe management of clinical operations
• Lead the planning and delivery of the clinical impact and resource availability for go-live
• Responsible for ensuring the future process build enables effective clinical reporting from go-live
• Develop the necessary future clinical models to support successful implementation and sustainability of the EPR Programme including workforce redesign and leadership models
• Identify and lead opportunities for cross-trust collaborative working within clinical practices that are supported by the EPR implementation
• Provide expert NMAHP opinion to digital teams