Director of Digital Health
| Posting date: | 06 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £117,645.00 to £134,103.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £117645.00 - £134103.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, NW1 3AX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9333-26-0173 |
Summary
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 Trusts 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 Trusts 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.