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Chief Digital Information Officer

The closing date is 17 August 2025

We are an integrated trust, providing care in people's homes and across our local community. We help people to stay well in the community, manage their own health with the right support, and avoid unnecessary visits and admissions to hospital.

When people do need hospital care, our experienced professionals deliver an outstanding quality of acute care using advanced technology and evidence-based procedures to ensure the best outcomes.

We have a budget of around £500m and provide community care in the London borough of Richmond, we also work in partnership with Your Healthcare who provide community care in Kingston. We provide a full range of acute services at Kingston Hospital, and short-stay rehabilitation at Teddington Memorial Hospital.

We serve a wider population for a range of specialist services. This includes hospital and outpatient services for people in Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton, and a community immunisation for most of south London.

The foundation of our strategy is the integration of services, creating joined-up pathways that provide a better experience for patients, with multi-disciplinary teams working together across the patient journey.

Main duties of the job

As a newly formed organisation, we have tremendous opportunity for digital transformation and for a dynamic, ambitious CDIO to join the Trust. A key early task will be the development of a best-in-class digital strategy - a clear road map for the next 5 to 10 years that will help us realise the full potential of integrated ways of working and help us on our journey to modern and sustainable healthcare. This will include working across our health system in increasingly innovative ways and building ways of information sharing that support and enhance patient care and wellbeing across the populations we serve. Our CDIO will also work to transform the day-to-day experience of our staff by ensuring that we have a modern and sustainable digital infrastructure to enable all our people to be their best and building a truly 'digitally competent' workforce for the future.

We are looking for a strategic thinker who is passionate about the potential for digital solutions to unlock change, as well as someone who is pragmatic and grounded, and able to build a team and a function within our organisation that acts as a platform for innovation. As a member of the executive team, you will also play a part in setting the tone for the organisation, acting as a role model for a culture which is inclusive, respectful, and which values and celebrates our differences, enabling us to continually improve our place of work and the care we provide.

About us

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. The best boards are those that reflect the communities we serve and therefore applications from all backgrounds are welcomed. We want to increase the diversity of our boards and particularly encourage applications from women, people from the local Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are under-represented.

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the full Job Description and Person Specification for a detailed overview of the role and its requirements.

When completing your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how your experience meets the expectations outlined.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

• Masters or postgraduate degree in an IT, project, or programme specialism
• Programme, project or change management (MSP, PRINCE2, AGILE or CHANGE equivalent), or equivalent level of experience.
• Evidence of continuing personal and professional development
• Relevant professional qualification or equivalent level of experience

Experience

• Demonstrable track record of successful change management and leadership.
• Significant and wide-ranging experience at (or near) director level in a large, complex customer facing organisation, whether in healthcare or other sector with comparable complexities and shared service delivery pressures
• Proven experience in developing and implementing IM&T strategies to achieve transformational levels of change and efficiency
• Experience of developing and managing a sizeable, value-adding IT function within a large organisation, with the motivational skills to encourage collaborative working across the technical departments within the IT department where there may be resistance to change.
• Significant management experience of implementing complex programmes, encompassing technology and service delivery.
• NHS experience

Skills /Abilities

• Ability to introduce new methods of working despite potential resistance
• Ability to plan strategically in the medium and longer term.
• Ability to demonstrate a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference

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.

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