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Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

## Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. The Trust delivers intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments.

The Trust is one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. It also hosts national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

**Culture and Values:**

The Trust is committed to its core values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, and Teamwork. The organisation has a strong sense of ambition, developing partnerships, and a clear commitment to innovation and inclusion.

**Employee Support and Networks:**

The Trust offers a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting the diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. The Trust invests significantly in this through in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

**Environmental Commitment:**

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance environmental performance, and achieve net-zero commitment.

## Interim Chief Digital and Information Officer

### Band 9

**Contract:** Secondment: 6 months (26 February 2027)
**Hours:** Full time, 37.5 hours per week
**Salary:** £112,782 - £129,783 per annum (pro rata for part time)
**Job ref:** 186-468-26-CS
**Site:** Duncan Macmillan House, Nottingham
**Closing date:** 30/06/2026 23:59

### Job overview

A pivotal senior role at a critical time to shape the future of care through digital, data and technology. This is a rare opportunity to shape how digital, data and technology transform care, leading the organisation in moving decisively from analogue to digital.

The Trust is recruiting to this post initially on an interim basis with a view to a permanent recruitment later this year. The successful candidate will need to be available to take up post from September this year.

### Main duties of the job

**What you will lead:**

- Transforming care through digital – setting a clear direction for digital-enabled service transformation
- Maximising EPR value – realising the full benefits of EPR investment
- Enhancing patient experience – improving digital access and communication
- Leading innovation safely – supporting responsible adoption of AI technologies
- Driving efficiency – reshaping teams and services to deliver value in a constrained environment
- Protecting infrastructure – ensuring robust information governance and cyber security
- Strengthening partnerships – working with the IBC Cluster and system partners

**Detailed responsibilities:**

- Maximising the benefit of the investment in the Trust's Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems
- Improving patient digital communications
- Supporting the safe implementation of AI technologies
- Overseeing the move of the Trust's data centre and the re-procurement of EPR(s)
- Delivering efficiencies including restructuring teams to maximise delivery
- Setting a clear direction for how digital can support the transformation of care services
- Automating and improving data analytical capabilities
- Maintaining the Trust's information and cyber security
- Meeting the varying demands of a large, complex organisation with a mix of in-patient and community services spread across a wide geography
- Managing a large supplier base ensuring value for money
- Working collaboratively with the new IBC Cluster, identifying opportunities for working together
- Acting as a key leader within the Trust's Extended Executive Leadership Team
- Addressing challenges whilst meeting ambitious targets to reduce corporate costs

### Person specification

**Qualifications - Academic / Craft / Professional**

*Essential criteria:*
- Educated to Masters degree level or equivalent experience and knowledge in a relevant field

*Desirable criteria:*
- Project management qualification

**Training**

*Essential criteria:*
- Information Governance training
- Data usage training
- Project management training

*Desirable criteria:*
- ITIL qualifications
- Leadership qualification or training

**Experience**

*Essential criteria:*
- Significant experience of development, implementation and maintenance of IT infrastructures, applications, projects and procurement
- Significant senior management experience in a complex environment
- Experience of managing large scale projects
- Experience of service re-design and business engineering
- Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams

**Contractual**

*Essential criteria:*
- A full UK driving license and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
- Ability to travel to various Trust sites

**Trust Values**

*Essential criteria:*
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate at interview that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion, Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role

**Knowledge**

*Essential criteria:*
- Demonstrate expertise in national and European data protection laws and practices including in-depth understanding of GDPR
- Network and Information Systems (NIS) Regulations 2018

*Desirable criteria:*
- Knowledge of the NHS & Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Best practice relating to technology and information systems such as cyber security, information security, data warehousing, information management, records management, etc.

**Skills**

*Essential criteria:*
- Strong verbal & written communication skills, ability to communicate to wide variety of stakeholders
- Development of strategic plans with strong analytical skills
- Excellent leadership and management skills, able to inspire and instill confidence whilst maximising performance

**Who we're looking for:**

A credible, values-driven leader with very senior experience in digital, data, or technology within a complex organisation. You will bring a strong track record of delivering large-scale transformation, alongside the ability to balance innovation with safety and operational delivery. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent influencing skills at a senior organisation and system level, supported by sound commercial acumen and proven programme leadership experience. Above all, you will have a deep and authentic commitment to improving patient care while supporting and valuing the workforce.

**Additional Information:**

- The Trust reserves the right to close the post early once sufficient applications have been received
- DBS disclosures are mandatory before commencement of employment
- Applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), deducted from salary over the first 2 months of employment
- Applicants are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies
- 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

Head of People and Culture, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Carol Andrews

Directorate Head of People and Culture

Head of HR at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Clare Teeney

Head of HR

HR Recruitment Team Leader & Children's Entertainer at Absolutely Amazing Parties

Philippa K

HR Recruitment Team Leader

Deputy Head of People and Culture

HR Manager

Operational Service Manager

Operations Manager

Operational Lead

Interim Chief Digital and Information Officer

Project Management

Information Security

Chief Information Officer

The NHS was launched in 1948.

It was born out of a long-held ideal that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth – one of the NHS's core principles. With the exception of some charges, such as prescriptions, optical services and dental services, the NHS in England remains free at the point of use for all UK residents. This currently stands at more than 64.6 million people in the UK and 54.3 million people in England alone.

The NHS in England deals with over 1 million patients every 36 hours. It covers everything, including antenatal screening, routine screenings (such as the NHS Health Check), treatments for long-term conditions, transplants, emergency treatment and end-of-life care.

Responsibility for healthcare in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government respectively.

The NHS employs more than 1.5 million people, putting it in the top five of the world's largest workforces, together with the US Department of Defence, McDonalds, Walmart and the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

The NHS in England is the biggest part of the system by far, catering to a population of 54.3 million and employing around 1.2 million people. Of those, the clinically qualified staff include 150,273 doctors, 40,584 general practitioners (GPs), 314,966 nurses and health visitors, 18,862 ambulance staff, and 111,127 hospital and community health service (HCHS) medical and dental staff.

The NHS in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland employs 161,415; 84,000 and 66,000 people respectively.

A pivotal senior role at a critical time to shape the future of care through digital, data and technology
  
  
Are you ready to lead a most exciting NHS digital transformation opportunity?
  
  
We are seeking an inspirational interim Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) to join our Extended Executive Leadership Team and help deliver the ambitions of the NHS 10 Year Plan and our refreshed Trust Strategy of which, digital innovation is a key component. This is a rare opportunity to shape how digital, data and technology transform care, leading our organisation in moving decisively from analogue to digital.
  
  
We are recruiting to this post initially on an interim basis with a view to a permanent recruitment later this year. The successful candidate will need to be available to take up post from September this year.
  
  
Why this role matters
  
This is more than a technology leadership role; this is a transformation role. You will lead our digital, data and information agenda, unlocking innovation to improve patient care, outcomes and staff experience.
  
From maximising our Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems to embedding AI safely and strengthening cyber resilience, your leadership will be central to our future as a modern NHS organisation.
  
  
What makes this role special
  
You will be joining an organisation with a strong sense of ambition, developing partnerships, and a clear commitment to innovation and inclusion. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape a Trust-wide digital vision that transforms care, influence collaboration and innovation across the wider system, and lead a talented and dedicated workforce. Above all, you will play a key role in delivering meaningful, lasting impact for patients and the communities we serve.
  
  
If you are passionate about the power of digital to transform healthcare and are ready to lead at scale, we would love to hear from you
  
  
What you will lead
  
  
**You will drive an ambitious digital agenda, including:**  

- Transforming care through digital – setting a clear direction for digital-enabled service transformation
- Maximising EPR value – realising the full benefits of our EPR investment
- Enhancing patient experience – improving digital access and communication
- Leading innovation safely – supporting responsible adoption of AI technologies
- Driving efficiency – reshaping teams and services to deliver value in a constrained environment
- Protecting our infrastructure – ensuring robust information governance and cyber security
- Strengthening partnerships – working with the IBC Cluster and system partners

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments.
  
  
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
  
  
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
  
  
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
  
  
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment
  
  

- Maximising the benefit of the investment in the Trust’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems
- Improving patient digital communications
- Supporting the safe implementation of AI technologies
- Overseeing the move of the Trust’s data centre and the re-procurement of our EPR(s)
- Delivering efficiencies including restructuring the teams to maximise delivery
- Set a clear direction for how digital can support the transformation of care services
- Automating and improving our data analytical capabilities
- Maintaining the Trust’s information and cyber security
- Meeting the varying demands of a large, complex organisation with a mix of in-patient and community services spread across a wide geography and with different user requirements
- Managing a large supplier base ensuring value for money
- Working collaboratively with the new IBC Cluster, identifying opportunities for working together
- Acting as a key leader within the Trust’s Extended Executive Leadership Team
- These challenges will need to be addressed whilst meeting ambitious targets to reduce corporate costs.

Who we’re looking for
  
We are seeking a credible, values-driven leader with very senior experience in digital, data, or technology within a complex organisation. You will bring a strong track record of delivering large-scale transformation, alongside the ability to balance innovation with safety and operational delivery. The successful candidate will demonstrate excellent influencing skills at a senior organisation and system level, supported by sound commercial acumen and proven programme leadership experience. Above all, you will have a deep and authentic commitment to improving patient care while supporting and valuing our workforce.
  
  
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.
  
  
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

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