Chief Digital Officer

At UHB, high-quality clinical care sits at the centre of everything we do, supported and enabled by digital capability, data and technology across a complex and high-performing organisation.

As Chief Digital Officer, you will hold Board-level accountability for defining and leading the organisation’s digital strategy and direction, ensuring it is aligned to organisational priorities, responsive to system expectations and positioned at the forefront of the digital landscape. This is a voting role reporting to the Chief Executive, advising and influencing at the centre of decision-making and shaping how digital capability enables safe, effective and sustainable patient care.

This is not a technical leadership role in isolation. It requires an executive able to connect digital, data and technology with clinical practice, operational delivery and organisational performance. The role spans digital strategy, innovation, information management, cyber security and data governance, alongside executive leadership of a complex IMT function.

You will work across organisational and system boundaries, ensuring digital priorities are grounded in service need and translate into measurable improvement in outcomes, productivity and experience.

Main duties of the job

You will define and lead the Trust’s digital strategy, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities and wider system direction, and translating this into delivery across a complex and demanding environment. You will guide how digital capability, information and data support clinical care, operational performance and long-term sustainability.

You will provide executive leadership for IMT, including the Electronic Patient Record, business intelligence and cyber security, ensuring systems, infrastructure and data are fit for purpose and support safe, effective care. You will oversee the governance of information assets, establishing clear frameworks to ensure data quality, accessibility and compliance with regulatory requirements.

You will drive digital and operational transformation, identifying where innovation, including artificial intelligence, can deliver meaningful improvement and ensuring solutions are implemented with pace and discipline. You will work closely with clinical, operational and system partners to align digital priorities with service delivery and transformation ambitions, including across the wider Birmingham and Solihull system.

This role requires an experienced Board-level leader able to influence across organisational and system boundaries, and to lead at scale with credibility, judgement and clarity.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.