Director of Digital Health | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	06 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£117,645 - £134,103 per annum inc HCAS (pro rata if P/T)
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	08 March 2026
Location:	London, NW1 3AX
Company:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	7782056/333-C-HQ-2049

Summary

The Director of Digital Health Delivery provides strategic and operational leadership for the delivery, optimisation and transformation of the Trust’s Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and clinical systems ecosystem.

The postholder will lead the teams responsible for the configuration, development, and enhancement of clinical applications to ensure they support safe, effective, and efficient patient care. This includes responsibility for the clinical safety of all digital clinical systems and for ensuring compliance with DCB0129/DCB0160 standards.

Clinical engagement will be a core function of the role, with the postholder responsible for ensuring meaningful, ongoing involvement of frontline clinicians in the design, implementation, optimisation and evaluation of all digital clinical systems.



The role will form part of the senior digital leadership team alongside the Director of Digital Strategy & Innovation and the Director of Technology & Infrastructure, working collectively to deliver the Trust’s digital ambitions as outlined in the Digital Strategy.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

1. Strategic Leadership

· Provide visible clinical and digital leadership and strategic direction for the EPR and clinical systems portfolio.

· Ensure all clinical applications align with Trust, professional and national NHS digital strategies.

· Act as the accountable clinical and digital officer for systems that enable safe, effective and efficient patient care.

· Lead delivery of the Digital Strategy clinical systems plan, ensuring measurable improvements in quality, safety, and patient experience.

· Translate clinical needs and digital vision into executable and value-driven delivery plans.

2. Electronic Patient Record (EPR) Transformation & Optimisation

· Lead the EPR transformation and optimisation programme, ensuring clinically safe delivery against agreed outcomes.

Drive clinical engagement, ensuring the system is co-designed, tested and optimised by frontline clinicians to meet real-world clinical, operational and patient needs.

· Oversee change control, configuration, testing, release, and benefits realisation for all EPR modules.

· Ensure effective interoperability and data flow across systems.

· Monitor and report on clinical outcomes, adoption and user satisfaction.

3. Clinical Systems Management

Lead the management and continuous improvement of the Trust’s portfolio of clinical systems, ensuring system rationalisation and alignment with enterprise architecture principles.

· Oversee supplier performance and service delivery for all clinical applications.

· Ensure robust clinical and digital governance around configuration, integration and standards.

· Ensure compliance with information governance and data protection requirements.

4. Clinical Safety

· Act as Senior Responsible Clinician for Digital Clinical Safety across all digital clinical systems.

· Ensure compliance with NHS Digital clinical safety standards (DCB0129/DCB0160).

· Work closely with the CCIO to embed clinical safety throughout digital programmes.

Oversee incident management, post-implementation reviews, and the integration of lessons learned.

5.Digital Skills & Literacy

· Provide strategic oversight of the Trust’s Digital Skills and Digital Literacy.

· Develop and deliver a Trust-wide programme to improve digital confidence, capability and literacy amongst clinical staff.

· Ensure digital skills development is embedded into workforce development, clinical education and professional practice.

· Work with education leads, clinical leaders and HR to align digital capability with role requirements and safe patient care.

· Monitor digital literacy levels and define improvement targets, reporting progress to the executive team.

6. Leadership and People Management

Provide strategic leadership to digital delivery teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Line manage senior digital delivery managers and clinical systems leads, ensuring clarity of objectives and accountability.

Support workforce capability development aligned to the NHS Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework.

Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion across all aspects of team management and service delivery.

7. Stakeholder and Partnership Working

Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders including clinicians, operational leaders, suppliers, and NHS partners.

Represent the Trust in ICS, regional, and national digital forums.

Contribute to business cases, funding bids, and assurance submissions related to digital delivery.

Ensure that digital delivery supports integrated care pathways across organisational boundaries.


This advert closes on Sunday 22 Feb 2026

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