Chief Digital Information Officer | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £99,891 - £114,949 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6211127/214-CEN-6211127 |
Summary
This is a unique opportunity to shape the digital future at SFH from a very senior leadership position. The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.
This is a very senior leadership role at Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder will bring focus, help advise and guide direction for the Senior Leadership Team, the Executive and Board of Directors on how digital solutions can facilitate Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust becoming a ‘digital first’ organisation and an exemplar Trust in the use of digital technology to provide safe, effective, responsive outstanding and efficient healthcare to the populations we serve.
The post holder will lead Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts digital and information transformation across the organisation and work in collaboration with the Integrated Care System (ICS) and other NHS Digital Providers.
This role will be responsible for utilising digital technology as part of achieving the Trust’s Improving Lives Strategy (2024 – 2029) and sub-strategies including the Clinical Services Strategy, People Strategy and Digital Strategy.
A key part of this role will be to examine the well established strategic, operational and functional relationship, joint and independent requirements, and interdependencies between SFH digital services and Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service (NHIS).
• The post holder will have the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills.
• The post holder will build important relationships with the Trust Board and all five clinical divisional leadership teams and all non-clinical corporate leadership teams and NHIS.
• There is a requirement to build good working relationships with multi-level and multi-disciplinary clinical groups in collaboration with the Medical Director and CXIOs (CNIO, CCIO, CAHPIO). The post holder will be required to achieve the goals of the Trust Improving Lives strategy and enable the implementation of the clinical services strategy, people strategy, innovation and improvement strategy whilst noting the confines of the financial strategy.
• Digital transformation is a key enabler and priority for the whole Trust and there is a requirement to build influential relationships with all clinical, and non-clinical leadership teams in Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as well as those in system Partner organisations and within NHIS.
• The post holder will work closely with and establish a positive and effective relationship with the key stakeholders including the Trust CXIOs, Medical Digital Advisors and the Clinical Lead for Digital Innovation and transformation and the Clinical Safety Officer.
• The post holder will support the design and delivery of the Trust Transformation Programme by contributing and delivering digital enablers to realise safe, effective and efficient care.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journals Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated Kings Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
To understand the role in more detail, please read the attached job description and person specification document.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024
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