EPR Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced EPR Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of a major Electronic Patient Record (EPR) implementation and transformation programme. This is a critical role responsible for managing the end-to-end planning, coordination, and execution of EPR deployment activities, ensuring the programme delivers clinical, operational, and organisational benefits.

Working closely with clinical stakeholders, operational teams, IT departments, suppliers, and senior leadership, you will drive project delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment with programme objectives, governance requirements, timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and delivery of EPR implementation and change initiatives.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, risk registers, and reporting documentation.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams including clinical, operational, technical, training, and change management resources.
• Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, and budget requirements.
• Ensure effective stakeholder engagement across all levels of the organisation.
• Facilitate governance meetings, steering groups, and project boards.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Manage supplier and third-party relationships to ensure contractual deliverables are achieved.
• Oversee testing, training, deployment, cutover, and go-live activities.
• Support benefits realisation and post-implementation optimisation.
• Ensure compliance with NHS standards, information governance, and regulatory requirements where applicable.
• Produce regular project status reports for programme leadership and executive stakeholders.

Essential Experience

• Experience implementing systems such as Epic, Oracle Health (Cerner), MEDITECH, Allscripts, Nervecentre, RiO, Lorenzo, or similar EPR solutions.
• Proven experience delivering large-scale EPR, EMR, EHR, or digital healthcare transformation programmes.
• Demonstrable track record of managing complex system implementations from initiation through go-live and stabilisation.
• Experience working within healthcare environments, preferably NHS organisations or equivalent healthcare providers.
• Strong project management expertise using recognised methodologies such as PRINCE2, MSP, Agile, or PMP.
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders across clinical, operational, and technical teams.
• Strong risk, issue, dependency, and budget management experience.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Desirable Experience

• Knowledge of clinical workflows and healthcare operational processes.
• Experience leading organisational change and adoption programmes.
• Familiarity with NHS digital standards, interoperability, and data migration projects.
• Benefits realisation and transformation experience.

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