Chief Digital Transformation Officer

We are inviting applications for a new role on our NHS executive team to lead the digital and transformation agenda for Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust, serving Derbyshire and Derby. This role will lead the strategic integration of digital, data, technology and organisational change unlocking new capabilities, driving innovation and transforming how we deliver services for the benefit of the patients and communities we serve.

The Chief Digital Transformation Officer (CDTO) provides strategic leadership to ensure technology, innovation and service redesign are fully aligned with Trust priorities and wider system objectives.

The postholder will act as Chief Information Officer (CIO), Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) and Cyber Security Lead, providing assurance to the Board that digital infrastructure, information governance and cyber security arrangements are robust, secure and futurefocused.

This is a highprofile executive leadership role requiring strong Boardlevel credibility, influence and the ability to lead complex change in partnership with key stakeholders

Main duties of the job

Key Priorities

Board level leadership Contribute as a full Trust Board member, shaping strategy, providing expert advice and constructive challenge on digital, data and transformation matters.

Transformation and service redesign Lead largescale transformation programmes that enable new models of care, digital innovation, agile working and service sustainability.

Digital and data strategy Develop and deliver the Trusts digital and IMT strategy, ensuring systems support safe, effective and efficient care and high quality decision making.

Information governance and cyber security Fulfil statutory responsibilities as CIO and SIRO, ensuring strong data protection, information governance and cyber resilience.

Partnership and system working Build strong relationships across the Joined Up Care Derbyshire system to support collaborative transformation and shared digital ambition.

Financial stewardship Provide strategic oversight of digital and transformation investment, ensuring value for money and long term organisational benefit.

• Senior level strategic management experience
• Experience of leading large-scale organisational change and transformation
• Experience of partnership working and cross-organisational collaboration
• Digital, data and technology leadership
• Experience in managing teams, budgets and complex projects, * Understanding of NHS and social care operating environments
• Influential and motivational leadership
• Strong communication and influencing skills
• Effective chairing and stakeholder management
• Advanced IT literacy and familiarity with digital tools and Microsoft Office
• Ability to manage complexity and make decisions under pressure, * Inclusion on an appropriate specialist register or equivalent senior level experience.
• Relevant professional or management qualification
• Masters degree or equivalent experience

Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire. We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in peoples own homes and via virtual consultations. During the pandemic response we have led the implementation of public vaccination centres in collaboration with partners across health and social care.