Chief Digital Information Officer

The Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) is a key member of the Executive Team (non-voting).

As a member of the Board and the Senior Management Team, the CDIO will provide expertise and leverage informatics and business intelligence to add value, enhancing the Trust's use of both technology and information.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the recently completed Digital Strategy in a timely and cost-effective manner, ensuring that we get the basics right, supporting the organisation with robust, performant, functional, and user-friendly IT systems, and for continually developing and delivering an exciting and effective 'Digital and Data Strategy' for the Trust and, where appropriate, its partners.

This will include leadership and participation in projects internally and externally at local and national levels. The CDIO will lead on all aspects of technology, providing strategy, vision, and leadership to ensure the Trust keeps pace with prevailing trends both within the healthcare and wider technology community.

The CDIO will undertake a strategic thought leadership capacity in terms of wider information and informatics visualisation and end-user experience. This will include transforming the organisation to be truly insight-driven using technology such as Data Lakes, Enterprise Data Warehouses, data load and transformation tools, data mining, and data analytics.

The post holder will set rigorous technical, day-to-day service, portfolio, programme, and project management capability based on industry standard ways of working e.g. ITIL, CMM, Prince2, PfMP.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for all of the Trust's business-critical IT, technical, and software solutions including, but not limited to, Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), ePCR, e-Mail radio and mobile data transmission to in-vehicle Mobile Data Terminals, corporate systems, and infrastructure (voice, data, end user, and technical environments).

The CDIO will need to understand and manage technologies and systems in a mixed environment, making best use of our in-house teams, shared services, and outsourced partners.

The CDIO will have a strong strategic and commercial understanding of technology and business intelligence and how it impacts a complex organisation. They will be comfortable with strategic and technical discussions at board level regarding the use and deployment of technology and its impact on the business.

The CDIO is expected to design and build an effective organisation to monitor Trust performance using data and information from the Trust systems to provide insights and enable an enhanced level of performance, to check, challenge, and support improved care delivery.

The post holder will be responsible for a budget of circa £11 million and will be overseeing a team of approximately 80.

Person Specification

Technical skills

• Degree in a relevant subject or equivalent experience
• Senior level experience managing a large CDIO function
• Experience of leading on Information Governance function
• Evidence of adopting best practice in leading and implementing major CDIO programmes

Knowledge

• SIRO
• Information Governance systems

Experience

• Board level or equivalent experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.