Associate Director of Informatics

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS hospital trust in Cambridge is seeking a Senior Leader for their digital application analyst team. This position will oversee digital transformation, ensuring the successful implementation of the Epic electronic health record system and supporting operational goals. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in NHS digital health, strong leadership skills, and a proven track record in managing large teams and projects. The role offers a permanent contract with a competitive salary and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

On-site leisure facilities

Reduced cost bus travel

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading large teams in an NHS context.
• In-depth knowledge of the Epic system and electronic patient records in the NHS.
• Experience managing an EPR design and configuration team at a senior level.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for digital and information agenda.
• Manage major digital transformation programmes.
• Ensure all digital systems support organisational priorities.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Change management

Education

Degree level education or equivalent experience

Certification in at least one Epic module

Recognised management qualification

Job description

Overview

Go back Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 29 January 2026

We are seeking an experienced senior leader for our digital application analyst team. This team is dedicated to supporting and improving the Epic electronic health record and other clinical and administrative systems for the Trust. This role plays a critical role in the delivery of the Trust strategy through digital enablement, and ensuring that the Trust continues to be a digital exemplar and leader. This role requires in-depth specialist knowledge of the Epic system (including certification in the Epic system), experience with electronic patient records in the NHS, and demonstrated experience leading large teams to successfully deliver large scale change and maintenance of digital systems.

Main duties of the job

The role provides strategic leadership for the Trust\'s digital, data, and information agenda, ensuring that all digital programmes and systems support organisational priorities and deliver measurable benefits. It oversees the development, implementation, and optimisation of the Trust\'s digital systems--including the Epic EPR--while ensuring high-quality reporting, system resilience, and effective information services. The post holder leads on the creation of Trust-wide digital policies, contributes to national and international digital health initiatives, and represents the organisation across external forums and partnerships. They manage major digital transformation programmes, including procurement, business case development, service redesign, and collaboration with external NHS sites to support their EPR implementations. The role also provides senior leadership to the eHospital team, ensuring strong performance, professional development, and a culture of continuous improvement.

About us

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke\'s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing \'outstanding\' care to our patients and rated \'Good\' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH\'s values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people\'s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

This vacancy will close at midnight on the 29th January 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on the 17th February 2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• General education to degree level, equivalent professional qualification, or equivalent experience.
• Certification in at least one Epic module.
• Recognised management qualification or substantial equivalent leadership experience.
• Recognised management qualification or equivalent leadership experience.
• Additional professional qualification of evidence of continued professional development.

Experience

• Substantial / extensive experience of managing an EPR design and configuration team and / or an EPR readiness team at assoc. director / director level during an Epic EPR implementation for a UK NHS organisation.
• Extensive and highly developed specialist knowledge and experience across the multiple disciplines that underpin Health Informatics, Digital Health, and Information Technology.
• Advanced knowledge of associated standards and operating procedures.
• Extensive experience of communicating complex information in a clear and understandable way to non-information managers and staff.
• Demonstrable experience of leading programmes in highly complex and challenging environments across multiple agencies in a politically sensitive environment.
• Experience of managing risks, reporting, and preparing papers and correspondence at Board level.
• Previous NHS Experience.
• Detailed understanding of the public sector.
• In depth knowledge of project principles, techniques, and tools e.g., Agile, MSP, PRINCE2.

Knowledge

• Extensive and expert knowledge of NHS data definitions, reporting requirements, sources and flows of NHS information, datasets, data quality and statutory returns.
• Awareness and understanding of NHS organisational structure, financial and commissioning frameworks.
• Good understanding of the political climate in which the NHS and other public sector organisations operate.
• Knowledge of financial systems and processes e.g., budget monitoring and management of large-value procurement.
• Detailed knowledge of NHS modernisation agenda and Government Policy for NHS.

Skills

• Excellent leadership skills with ability to influence and motivate teams to manage change and achieve organisational goals.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet informative communications for a broad range of stakeholders across multiple agencies and disciplines.
• Able to articulate the connection between IT work and the benefits to patients and the public, and how to maximise benefits.
• Ability to manage complex programmes of work and make informed judgements and decisions where there is a multiplicity of targets / objectives, imperfect information and no obvious precedent.
• High level of numeracy and analytical skills and ability to understand complex issues across the Trust and health economy.
• Excellent interpersonal skills including the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues at all levels and external stakeholders.
• Excellent, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Flexibility to work autonomously with the skills to make decisions independently and delegate effectively.

Additional Requirements

• The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
• Confident to interact with executive level staff.
• The post-holder must have well developed interpersonal and persuasive skills.
• The post-holder must be able to plan ahead, to manage and prioritise their workload and respond flexibly to rapidly changing demands.

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.

Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

£109,179 to £125,637 a yearp.a. pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

180-F-CVA449

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