Chief Digital Information Officer | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,179 - £125,637 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 November 2025 |
| Location: | Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL |
| Company: | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7523798/214-CEN-7523798 |
Summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an exceptional leader to join our team as Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO). This pivotal role will shape and deliver our strategic vision for Digital, Data & Intelligence Services, ensuring world-class digital support across the Trust.
Key Responsibilities:
• Lead the development and implementation of the Trust’s Digital Strategy.
• Establish digital technology as a core enabler of organisational strategy and business planning.
• Drive improvements in patient care through effective digital transformation.
• Ensure compliance with mandated knowledge, information, and data standards.
• Represent SFH in regional and national digital forums, including the East Midlands Acute Providers (EMAP) and the Digital Design Collaborative (DDC).
• Collaborate with clinicians and managers to optimise digital solutions for safe, high-quality care.
• Manage relationships with key partners and suppliers, including Nottinghamshire Health Informatics Service (NHIS)
Strategic Impact
You will work across the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire, Derby and Derbyshire, and Lincolnshire Integrated Care Systems to secure the benefits of digital investment through evidence-based implementation programmes. Your leadership will be instrumental in identifying and managing project interdependencies, risks, and benefits realisation.
Apply now to join our team!
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Thursday 30 Oct 2025
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