Chief Digital Information Officer

NHS; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust in the UK is seeking a Chief Digital Information Officer to drive the strategic direction of their digital transformation initiatives. The role involves leading digital, data, and intelligence services to enhance patient care and colleague experiences. Candidates should hold a Master's in a relevant field, have significant leadership experience in digital roles, and demonstrate a commitment to inclusivity and empowerment in healthcare. The position offers a salary of £109,179 to £125,637 per annum and is a full-time permanent role.

Qualifications

• Extensive digital advice to NHS or comparable organizations.
• Successful delivery of large scale change initiatives.
• Experience in risk management related to digital solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead digital improvement and transformation efforts.
• Drive strategic direction of data and intelligence services.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders.

Skills

Influencing clinicians or equivalent

Presentation skills

Effective stakeholder influence

Data interpretation

Professional integrity

Analytical skills

Innovative strategic vision

Team leadership

Prioritization and delegation

Promoting diversity and inclusion

Education

Masters level in computer science or related

Management qualification

Evidence of personal development

Digital leadership experience

Job description

Job Summary

Thank you for your taking the time to consider this opportunity to work with us in this exciting role.

We are looking for a Chief Digital Information Officer to join SherwoodForest Hospitals and join us on an exciting journey to realise our ambition of outstanding care, compassionate people and healthier communities.

Digital change and improvement is essential to the future of the NHS, and we want to be at the forefront of this change.

This post will lead digital, data and intelligence services across the Trust, providing strategic direction and delivery. This role will work with colleagues, patients and partners to drive digital improvement and transformation. We must leverage the potential of digital to improve the working lives of colleagues, patient experience and outcomes.

We are looking for a someone who can show that they lead in the right way and that can evidence what they deliver.

We want to Sherwood Forest to have one of the best cultures in the NHS because an inclusive and empowering culture delivers safe care.

Main Duties of the Job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About Us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details

Date posted: 23 October 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 9

Salary: £109,179 to £125,637 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 214-CEN-7523798

Job locations: King's Mill Hospital  Mansfield Road Sutton in Ashfield NG17 4JL

Job Responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge Requirements

• Working with and directly influencing clinicians or equivalent staff groups
• Presentation skills and the ability to present to large multi-level groups.
• Evidence of effective influence over a wide range of key stakeholders.
• Able to interpret highly complex data and information to inform decision making at Board level
• Demonstrates professional and personal credibility and integrity and is a respected leader
• Able to take difficult and challenging decisions that support strategic aims and long term vision
• The analytical and judgemental skills necessary to process assess and make decisions on highly complex matters, with conflicting information and a comparison of a range of options
• Able to create / shape innovative strategic vision and plans for the best possible long term benefit of patients, the organisation and health and care systems
• Demonstrate the ability to create constructively and customer focused teams across organisations
• Lead a team successfully
• Ability to prioritise, delegate and meet challenging deadlines
• Embrace and promote diversity and inclusion within the workforce and for service users

Qualifications

• Educated to Masters level in computer science subject or related subject or equivalent experience
• Management qualification
• Evidence of personal and professional development.
• Evidence of previous digital leadership roles in large complex organisations

Desirable

• Experience of working at Director level
• Engagement in the NHS Digital Academy Programme
• International Certificate Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) Certification.
• Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) trained
• Registered Healthcare Professional or Healthcare Qualification
• Quality Improvement / Change Management
• Educated to MBA degree level
• Examples of creation and delivery of innovative digital solutions

Experience

• Extensive experience of providing strategic and technical Digital advice to the NHS or comparable organisations
• Track record of delivery
• Track record of delivering large scale change and knowledge of quality improvement methodologies
• Extensive experience in creating integrated digital platforms of online and offline solutions and asset management.
• Significant Digital systems procurement experience.
• Experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective
• Significant experience of implementing a new digital system in a large and complex organisation
• Significant experience of negotiating and managing large contracts.
• Ability to motivate people and strong interpersonal skills
• Experience of use of Lean/SixSigma, improvement methodology
• Experience of building staff capacity and capability
• Experience of working across partnerships

Contractual Requirements

• Participate on Gold on Call
• Essential Car user - must hold full driving licence and have access to own vehicle for work purposes
• Attendance at local, regional and national meetings on behalf of the Trust

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.

Employer Details

Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL

Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)