Job summary
Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Programme OpportunityNorfolk and Waveney Hospitals Group (NWUHG)
We have embarked on a significant programme to implement a single Electronic Patient Record (EPR) across the Norfolk and Waveney Hospitals Group (NWUHG) as part of the wider NHS digital transformation agenda.
The collaborative brings together three acute hospital trusts:
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (JPUH)
Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (NNUH)
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust (QEH)
This programme represents a major strategic investment in improving patient care, safety, and operational efficiency across our system.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute your skills and expertise to a high-impact programme that will shape the future of healthcare delivery across Norfolk and Waveney. The EPR programme is central to our ambition to modernise services, enhance clinical outcomes, and support our workforce through improved digital capability.
This role will be within the Eastern Pathology Alliance (EPA) IT and will report and deliver LIMS and ICE changes, as well as coordinate testing with clinical leads for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn on behalf of the EPR programme - working with colleagues across EPA, the EPR programme, and the Group's pathology network.
Main duties of the job
The MEDITECH Expanse EPR programme depends on pathology ordering and resulting working correctly from day one. This post leads the pathology and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) side of that delivery on behalf of the Eastern Pathology Alliance (EPA), for the EPR programme's diagnostic integrations at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.
You will project manage the lab changes implied by the EPR for one of the hospital sites: agreeing the detailed LIMS changes required, liasing with EPA CAB, planning and sequencing your work, changing and tracking LIMS configuration and supplier developments, and managing testing through to go-live and stabilisation. You will work flexibly in a team of three between EPA laboratory services, the EPR programme, Trust digital teams and the LIMS suppliers.
You will lead the alignment of the pathology test catalogue with the EPR build, including test and order set definitions, mapping and code assignment, add-on and reflex rules, specimen and container requirements, and result display expectations - working alongside the Pathology EPR Builder who undertakes the build in MEDITECH Expanse.
You will own the pathology test strategy and plan for orders and results integration, working with the EPR Test Manager, and will manage the pathology defect pipeline through to resolution. Ensureing that changes are made in a way that preserves laboratory quality standards, clinical safety and accreditation compliance.
About us
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
Flexible working hours
Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
Discounted gym memberships
Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
Support in career development
Flexible staff bank
Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
Details
Date posted
24 September 2026
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387 to £56,515 a year
pa pro rata
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
9 months
Working pattern
Full-time,
Part-time,
Flexible working,
Home or remote working,
Compressed hours
Reference number
234-26-EPR-CF-QEH
Job locations
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn
Gayton Rd
King's Lynn
PE30 4ET
United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Opportunity to become an expert on the management of access, reporting and provisioning of the new Group electronic patient record.
Working within a small team of EPR experts and the opportunity to gain valuable experience on the new electronic patient record.
Development of new skills that are fully transferrable to new product delivery.
Experience of LIMS systems and pathology services is a fundamental requirement of this post. You will be the person responsible for planning, checking and making changes to LIMS and ordering systems to ensure high volume or important tests function as they should. Experience of LIMS systems and pathology services is essential. This is not a role we can train someone into. MEDITECH, particularities of our InterSystems, Daedelus and Haemonetics LIMS we will guide you on, and our programme tooling and our governance we can and will teach you.
Job responsibilities
Opportunity to become an expert on the management of access, reporting and provisioning of the new Group electronic patient record.
Working within a small team of EPR experts and the opportunity to gain valuable experience on the new electronic patient record.
Development of new skills that are fully transferrable to new product delivery.
Experience of LIMS systems and pathology services is a fundamental requirement of this post. You will be the person responsible for planning, checking and making changes to LIMS and ordering systems to ensure high volume or important tests function as they should. Experience of LIMS systems and pathology services is essential. This is not a role we can train someone into. MEDITECH, particularities of our InterSystems, Daedelus and Haemonetics LIMS we will guide you on, and our programme tooling and our governance we can and will teach you.
