Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Information Officer
- Grade
- VSM
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-24-COR-R12855
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide
- Town
- Gloucestershire (Gloucester/ Cheltenham)
- Salary
- per annum
- Closing
- 15/09/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Executive Chief Digital Information Officer
VSM
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
We are dedicated in our Journey to Outstanding – improving the health, wellbeing and experience of the people we serve by delivering exceptional care every day. We’re now seeking a CDIO who shares our ambition.
We have an exciting future ahead and we believe digital is a cornerstone of that journey. There has been a monumental shift in the way we deliver our services, with technology playing an increasingly pivotal role, and we want to ensure we’re at the forefront of digital capability. Our Board-level CDIO will expertly navigate the digital landscape and offer clear direction to the Board to maximize the contribution of technology and business intelligence
Main duties of the job
As the CDIO of a large and increasingly digitally maturing Trust, the post holder will be responsible for leading and delivering a range of innovative digital and information business strategies to achieve our Trust vision through support for, and delivery of, our agreed goals and strategic objectives. Leading the Digital and Information teams you will be at the forefront of cultural change that integrates ‘digital and data’ into all aspects of our organisation for the benefit of patients and staff. You will be a key member of the Executive team, have the ability to build credibility with, inspire confidence and demonstrably influence staff at all levels from ward to Board.
Working for our organisation
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the Candidate Information Pack to view and assess the duties, responsibilities and key relationships of the job against your experience and achievements.
Person specification
Qualifications, Background and Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
- Masters-level qualification in a digital, technology, information, or business administration discipline or equivalent senior experience working in a large and complex organisation
- Demonstrable experience in strategic ICT, digital and information management leadership including;
- - Experience of developing Digital and Information strategies including building business cases and articulating the added value of investments
- - Experience of developing robust and reliable business intelligence systems to support decisions in a regulated environment
- - Business analysis skills, identifying the informatics consequences and opportunities of organisational priorities
- Experience of successfully leading teams, managing senior informatics staff and high value revenue and capital budgets
- Strong commercial skills including supplier management, licensing, and professional services.
- Programme management experience, gained in a complex multi-site and multi-disciplinary environment
- Up-to-date knowledge of NHS strategic context and national policy in relation to ICT, digital and information management and cyber security risks and mitigation strategies
- Experience of successfully leading complex services and functions through service development and change management
- Experience of successfully working across organisational boundaries and of developing inter-organisational partnerships
Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Values based, inclusive and compassionate leader
- Highly developed political awareness and demonstrable leadership, negotiation and influencing skills combined with the ability to motivate, challenge and engage individuals and teams
- Communicating effectively at all levels both within the Trust and across partner organisations
- Actively seeking, establishing and developing effective working relationships with key stakeholders
- Drive and vision
- Strategic mind set and clarity of purpose
- Entrepreneurship
- Resilience and high levels of integrity
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Brendan Davies
- Job title
- Head of Executive Search, Hunter Healthcare
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07585 356985
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