# EPR Project Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Birmingham Children's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Project manager
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 Per Annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-07T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24T16:41:08.598Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Birmingham_Black_Country/Birmingham/Birmingham_Womens_Childrens_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Project_Management/Project_Management-v8200891
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8200891?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.bwc.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Taurus EPR team, powered by Epic, as an EPR Project Manager.

As a Project Manager, you'll play a vital role in optimising and supporting our Taurus electronic patient record (EPR) system. You'll work closely with stakeholders from across the organisation at all levels, to deliver, develop and implement key projects that support safe and efficient patient care.

### Main duties of the job

The Taurus EPR Programme is responsible for the ongoing delivery, optimisation, and governance of the Trust's (Epic) electronic patient record system. Having delivered a successful implementation, the team's strategic focus has now shifted from build and stabilisation to optimisation, value realisation, and continuous improvement ensuring the Trust draws maximum clinical, operational, and financial benefit from its Epic investment.

The EPR Project Manager is a senior member of the Taurus team and will support the team and Trust's strategic objectives through the following duties:

Ensure comprehensive documentation is developed, communicated clearly, and presented to relevant stakeholders to support understanding and consistency.

Provide clear and timely progress updates, proactively escalate issues when projects are off track, and hold team members accountable for delivering agreed commitments.

Design and implement an accessible benefits framework that captures quantitative and qualitative data, enabling effective reporting on benefits realisation and performance.

Lead by example, taking a hands-on approach and contributing directly to delivery when required.

Understand the wider organisational context, team challenges, and delivery constraints, and ensure these are considered when planning and delivering work.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

### Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

## Person Specification

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Post graduate qualifications (masters) or equivalent
- Project or Programme management qualification (Prince II, Managing Successful Programmes or equivalent)
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Evidence of formal management development or relevant experience

**Desirable**

- Quality Improvement qualification (e.g. Lean)

### Other Requirements

**Essential**

- Able to travel and work from a number of different locations
- Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required

### Analytical and Judgement Skills

**Essential**

- Excellent analytical skills
- Ability to convey complex information in a clear and understandable format
- Ability to analyse and assess projects, identifying areas for collaborative working to improve performance
- Analyse and present highly complex, sensitive or contentious information to a wide range of stakeholders and groups

### Knowledge & Nature of Experience

**Essential**

- Extensive Project Management skills and experience
- Familiarity with EPR based management and information systems
- Knowledge of NHS Strategy and Policy
- Knowledge, understanding and experience in managing risk
- Experience in managing complex EPR projects
- Experience of both operational leadership and projects within the NHS setting
- Experience in training provision

**Desirable**

- Knowledge and Experience of LEAN Improvement methodology
- Experience in managing complex organisational change projects
- Experience in budgetary and resource management
- Experience in capacity and service planning within an acute health care setting

### Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

**Essential**

- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent facilitative and coaching skills
- Ability to mediate and resolve conflict situations successfully where there is resistance to change
- Ability to work as part of a multi-professional team
- Demonstrate alignment with the values and beliefs of the Trust
- Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of equality and inclusion in the delivery of this role

### Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

**Essential**

- Excellent IT skills, including keyboard skills, use of Microsoft Office and a range of project management software
- Ability to plan and implement new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working and capacity planning
- Excellent organisational skills
- Pro-active and self-motivated, with the ability to motivate others
- Ability to work independently and demonstrate a high degree of autonomy
- Ability to prioritise own workload appropriately
- Flexible to meet service needs
- Ability to work in a challenging and busy environment whilst meeting deadlines
- Ability to lead on service development in specialist areas, proposing changes which have a service wide impact
- Assertive and confident
- Evidence of change management skills in a complex setting
- Ability to manage teams at multiple sites/locations
- Ability to chair and structure meetings

## Documents

- [epr project manager jd&ps (pdf, 427.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10537595)

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