Office of the CDIO Manager

Greater Manchester Mental Health; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A mental health organization is seeking a Manager for the Office of the CIO. The role involves leading digital change initiatives, strategic planning, and governance in alignment with the organization's objectives. The ideal candidate will have leadership experience in change management and a relevant degree or equivalent experience. This position offers opportunities to lead a multi-disciplinary team and ensure effective communication across various levels of the organization, contributing to improving services for service users.

Qualifications

• Degree in a related subject or equivalent experience.
• Leadership experience and understanding of change management processes.
• Experience managing a multi-disciplined team.

Responsibilities

• Define medium-term objectives across Digital Services.
• Lead Digital Services business planning cycles.
• Develop and implement Digital change management policy.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Data interpretation and presentation

Financial input on business cases

Education

Degree in a related subject or demonstrable equivalent experience

Management or finance qualification(s)

Job description

Job overview

The Office of the CIO Manager is responsible for the design and development of change process, governance and associated formal reporting across Digital Services to meet mandates and defined standards of excellence.

Leading the Office of the CDIO, the post holder ensures that Digital Services as a division are delivering activities aligned to the Trust and digital strategic objectives.

The post also ensures the Digital SMT are informed about key areas of focus, through ‘deep-dive’ analysis and reporting.

8b - Subject to job evaluation

Main duties of the job

Strategy

Work with the CDIO, CCIO’s and Associate Directors to define the medium-term objectives across Digital Services, lead across digital services to monitor progress of activities contributing to the delivery of the digital strategy objectives. Develop formal and informal reporting methods to communicate progress on activities.

Business Administration

Lead the Digital Services business planning cycles, provide leadership to the OCIO business administration team, working with senior managers across Digital Services, lead the coordination of a consistent risk management and reporting process.

Digital Change and Governance

Responsible for development and implementation of the Digital change management policy. Provide guidance and oversight to continuous improvement of change management processes and reporting systems.

General

Interpret and communicate highly complex and sometimes contentious information.

Responsible for development of policies and procedures relating to the Office of the CIO.

Responsible for the management of Digital budgets, ensuring Trust Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) are adhered to.

Working for our organisation

Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 122 locations.

We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.

Greater Manchester is one of the world's most innovative, original and exciting places to live and work. From the beauty of the surrounding countryside to the heart of the vibrant inner city with great shopping, entertainment and dining options.

Wherever you go you will experience a great northern welcome with people famed for their warmth, humour and generosity.

Our people enjoy their work, have opportunities to learn and develop their skills and are encouraged to generate new ideas that improve care for our service users.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See job description and person specification attached for more information on further details on what the role involves, or contact the point of contact for further discussion.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Essential criteria: Degree in a related subject or demonstrable equivalent experience
• Desirable criteria: Management or finance qualification(s)

Experience

• Essential criteria: Leadership experience with a thorough understanding of change management processes; Experience managing a multi-disciplined team, motivating and developing staff
• Essential criteria: Track record of achieving service improvements through initiating the use of new methodologies and supporting the management of change
• Essential criteria: Understanding of finance and procurement processes; Experience developing strategies / strategic planning and tracking progress using KPI’s
• Desirable criteria: Experience as a senior manager within a digital team
• Desirable criteria: Public sector experience
• Desirable criteria: Experience of public sector finance and procurement

Skills

• Essential criteria: Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills to people at all levels within the organisation
• Essential criteria: Able to extract, interpret, manipulate, and present information in a meaningful way
• Essential criteria: Ability to proactively contribute to business cases, providing an effective and professional financial input
• Desirable criteria: Ability to understand the impact of performance targets on digital change activities

The Trust mandates all post holders who require a DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration throughout your employment with GMMH.

Applicants are encouraged to apply for posts at Greater Manchester Mental Health who have direct experience of mental health, learning disability or drug and alcohol services either as a service user or a carer.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We are aspiring to ensure our workforce is representative of the diverse communities that we serve, and we are strongly committed to removing barriers to employment for candidates from under-represented groups, for example BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ communities. If you would like to have an informal chat about the recruitment process for this role or would value some additional support, we’d love to hear from you.

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We have added a disclaimer to our application process advising that the use of AI is monitored. GMMH reserves the right to follow up with a candidate at the interview on specific responses and those examples used in the supporting statement to explore it further.

Sponsorship

We are proud to be an approved sponsor for the Skilled Worker visa. Applications from individuals who require sponsorship will be considered alongside all other applications. Please be aware that not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible roles and salary requirements on the UK Government’s website – click.

If you are offered a role with us and you require sponsorship, we will check your eligibility in line with the information on the above website. Your offer of employment could be withdrawn if the role is not eligible for sponsorship, and you are not otherwise able to evidence your right to work in the UK.

The Home Office introduces new changes from 22 / 07 / 2025 that impact the health and care sector, you may wish to familiarise with it.

Do you have experience outside the NHS?

We want to attract and retain people with diverse skills and experience, to deliver inclusive healthcare services to our communities.

We will consider relevant experience outside the NHS to calculate your salary on appointment.