Interim Head of IT

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care is seeking an Interim Head of IT to lead our ICT services for an initial six-month period. You will drive technology strategy, information governance and digital transformation to support compassionate care and ensure GDPR compliance across our healthcare charity setting.

You will oversee cyber security, data protection, business continuity and disaster recovery, while developing plans for long-term digital success and improvements across our organisation.

Qualifications

• Senior ICT leadership or interim management experience.
• Experience leading digital transformation or service improvement programmes.
• Strong experience in cyber security, information governance and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership on technology, cyber security, data governance and digital transformation.
• Ensure stable and effective ICT operations and service delivery.
• Lead digital infrastructure, cloud services, networks and system improvements.
• Oversee Information Governance and GDPR compliance.
• Manage the ICT team and budgets.
• Develop and implement long-term digital plans and improvements.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Interim management

Digital transformation

Cyber security

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Job description

Are you an experienced IT leader who combines strategic thinking with hands‑on delivery and wants to use your expertise to support a cause that truly matters? Join our ICT team and play a vital role behind the scenes – enabling our colleagues to deliver outstanding, compassionate care every day. As Interim Head of IT, you will lead our digital, information governance and ICT services for an initial six‑month period. You will be responsible for maintaining business‑critical systems, strengthening cyber security, ensuring compliance with data protection legislation, and progressing key digital improvement initiatives.

What you will do

Providing strategic leadership on technology, cyber security, data governance and digital transformation. Ensuring stable and effective ICT operations and service delivery. Leading digital infrastructure, cloud services, networks and system improvements. Acting as the organisation's Information Governance Lead. Ensuring compliance with UK GDPR, Data Protection legislation and NHS Data Security & Protection Toolkit requirements. Leading and developing the ICT team. Improving reporting, data governance and organisational use of information. Strengthening business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements. Producing recommendations and future plans to support long‑term digital success.

Required experience

• Significant experience in a senior ICT leadership, interim management or transformation role
• Proven success leading organisational change, digital transformation or service improvement programmes
• Strong experience managing cyber security, information governance and data protection compliance
• Experience operating within a regulated environment such as healthcare, charity or public sector organisations
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience leading teams, managing budgets and influencing senior leaders

Additional role requirements

• All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• We do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
• Manual handling and/or heavy lifting.
• Full, current valid UK driving licence.

Our commitment to Equality and Diversity

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture. If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process. To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

The Company

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we're all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life‑limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life‑limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It's important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.

Employee benefits overview

We are committed to creating a workplace where our staff can develop their careers and make a real difference. A summary of benefits is below.