ePath Programme Director

An exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated individual to join Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as ePath Programme Director, leading a major digital transformation programme across the North East and North Cumbria.

The ePath Programme will deliver a shared Pathology Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) across Northumbria Healthcare, North Cumbria Integrated Care and Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts.

This is a significant, complex programme that will support the modernisation, standardisation and integration of pathology services across participating organisations, improving diagnostic pathways and supporting safe, efficient patient care.

The successful candidate will provide strategic and operational leadership, overseeing programme delivery, governance, financial management, workforce planning, supplier relationships and implementation readiness.

Working closely with senior clinical, operational, digital and executive leaders, the Programme Director will play a pivotal role in delivering this ambitious programme and shaping the future of networked pathology services., The post holder will provide strategic and operational leadership for the design, build, implementation and optimisation of the network ePath LIMS across three NHS Trusts.

Key responsibilities will include:

Leading a complex, multi-organisational digital transformation programme, ensuring delivery against agreed milestones, budgets and objectives.

Establishing robust programme governance, reporting, risk management and assurance arrangements.

Coordinating interdependent clinical, operational, digital and technical workstreams across participating organisations.

Managing programme finances, resources, supplier relationships and contractual dependencies.

Engaging and influencing senior stakeholders, including executive sponsors, SROs, clinical leaders and digital teams.

Overseeing implementation planning, testing, validation, operational readiness and safe transition into live services.

Managing programme risks, issues and dependencies, ensuring appropriate mitigation and escalation.

Supporting standardisation, interoperability, organisational change and benefits realisation across the network.

Providing clear programme assurance and strategic recommendations to the ePath Programme Board.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.