Job summary
We are looking for a new Chief Digital Information Officer to provide world class digital services to the newly formed provider collaborative of University Hospitals Leicester (UHL) and the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group (Kettering General Hospital and Northampton General Hospital).
UHL and UHN have a joint Chair, John MacDonald, and a Joint CEO, Richard Mitchell, and are the first acute provider collaborative in the East Midlands. An early key priority is to recruit into this important new senior role. Both organisations share the belief that if we consistently and effectively look after our colleagues, they will deliver excellent patient care. There is collective focus on ensuring our values translate into an everyday reality for all.
UHL is a multi-site provider of integrated healthcare and serves people from Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland and beyond. The turnover is £1.5bn and 17,000 colleagues work in the Trust. The UHN Group includes Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust with a combined turnover of circa £900M and 11,000 colleagues. UHL and UHN have long standing clinical and workforce relationships and jointly serve a population of over 2 million people.
As two university teaching hospitals, teaching and research are important, and we will continue to strengthen our wide-ranging academic partnerships which will support improved patient outcomes and exciting opportunities for colleagues.
Main duties of the job
The Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) will lead on ensuring UHL and UHN have a shared digital and data infrastructure providing a platform for transformation. Working together, digital will be recognised as a strategic enabler supporting our expectation that all patients receive the same standard of care we would want for our friends and family. Technology across all organisations should be relentlessly focused on the needs of users and facilitate improved outcomes for patients.
The CDIO will develop a strategic plan for technology across UHL and UHN, focussing on the things we do well whilst bringing in industry leading technologies.
The CDIO will be a full member of both boards. They will support the CEO and will contribute beyond their portfolio to the success of the trusts. The CDIO will lead digital and data teams that are fully embedded in both organisations. This role will require the CDIO to align and prioritise the needs of disparate teams and stakeholders.
The CDIO will also be involved in the emerging work across the East Midlands Acute Providers Network.
About us
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
Compassion
Accountability
Respect
Integrity
Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
We are a Defence positive trust, supporting our reservists, veterans, spouses and partners.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds.This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more details and information on this role and the main duties and responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description, Person Specification and candidate pack.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more details and information on this role and the main duties and responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description, Person Specification and candidate pack.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification in a health or leadership related subject.
- Member of a relevant professional body
- Evidence of sustained personal and professional development
Desirable
- Certified Healthcare CIO (CHIME)
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in large and complex organisations
- Experience of working at Board level
- Has led business intelligence functions in health.
- Has led digital functions in health.
- Demonstrable ability to devise policy and strategy.
- Good understanding of the NHS and the national technology strategies and involvement in the production of local (organisation) or sector wide strategies.
- Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams.
- Experience of the negotiation and management of high value hardware, software, and service contracts with major suppliers.
- Strong experience of staff and financial management
- Interpreting and providing context to data and present information in reports.
- Engaging stakeholders to agree and manage digital and data requirements.
- Developing and maintaining contact networks within the local and National Health Economy
- Interpretation and implementation of National policies
- Deep understanding of performance management and NHS performance requirements
- Has an exceptional understanding of national data flows and opportunities.
Communication and working relationships
Essential
- Excellent communication skills demonstrable at a senior level
- Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills, with the ability to engage, build and sustain relationships, both within the Trust and within external organisations.
- Able to communicate ideas, motivate and generate action through others.
- Experience of building successful alliances with healthcare partners, ICS, the independent sector and public representative groups
- Proven high level of communication skills using a range of methods including written, verbal and presentations.
- Well-practised ability to question, challenge and influence assumptions across professional and organisational boundaries.
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential
- Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to understand and work within complexity and translate it into understandable knowledge.
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills, with a track record in writing complex business cases and policies;
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude;
- Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification in a health or leadership related subject.
- Member of a relevant professional body
- Evidence of sustained personal and professional development
Desirable
- Certified Healthcare CIO (CHIME)
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in large and complex organisations
- Experience of working at Board level
- Has led business intelligence functions in health.
- Has led digital functions in health.
- Demonstrable ability to devise policy and strategy.
- Good understanding of the NHS and the national technology strategies and involvement in the production of local (organisation) or sector wide strategies.
- Demonstrable success in delivering change and performance with and through your management and clinical teams.
- Experience of the negotiation and management of high value hardware, software, and service contracts with major suppliers.
- Strong experience of staff and financial management
- Interpreting and providing context to data and present information in reports.
- Engaging stakeholders to agree and manage digital and data requirements.
- Developing and maintaining contact networks within the local and National Health Economy
- Interpretation and implementation of National policies
- Deep understanding of performance management and NHS performance requirements
- Has an exceptional understanding of national data flows and opportunities.
Communication and working relationships
Essential
- Excellent communication skills demonstrable at a senior level
- Strong interpersonal and negotiating skills, with the ability to engage, build and sustain relationships, both within the Trust and within external organisations.
- Able to communicate ideas, motivate and generate action through others.
- Experience of building successful alliances with healthcare partners, ICS, the independent sector and public representative groups
- Proven high level of communication skills using a range of methods including written, verbal and presentations.
- Well-practised ability to question, challenge and influence assumptions across professional and organisational boundaries.
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential
- Highly developed analytical and problem-solving skills
- Able to understand and work within complexity and translate it into understandable knowledge.
- Excellent inter-personal and communications skills, with a track record in writing complex business cases and policies;
- High level of work organisation, self-motivation, drive for performance and improvement, and flexibility in approach and attitude;
- Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
