Chief Digital Information Officer

Job overview

The Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) is a key member of the Executive Team (non-voting).

As a member of the Board and the Senior Management Team the CDIO will provide expertise and will leverage informatics and business intelligence to add value, enhancing the Trust’s use of both technology and information.

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South East Coast Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust have appointed Hunter Healthcare as the Executive Search firm to support the appointment of this role, and applications should be made directly to Hunter Healthcare using the above link.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for delivering the recently completed Digital Strategy in a timely and cost-effective manner ensuring that we get the basics right, supporting the organisation with robust, performant, functional and user-friendly IT systems and for continually developing and delivering an exciting and effective ‘Digital and Data Strategy’ for the Trust and where appropriate its partners.

This will include leadership and participation in projects internally and externally at local and national level. The CDIO will lead on all aspects of technology providing strategy, vision and leadership to ensure the Trust keeps pace with prevailing trends both within the healthcare and wider technology community.

The CDIO will undertake a strategic thought leadership capacity in terms of wider information and informatics visualisation and end user experience. This will include transforming the organisation to be truly insight driven using technology such as Data Lakes, Enterprise Data Warehouses, Data load and transformation tools, data mining and data analytics.

The post holder will set rigorous technical, day to day service, portfolio, programme and project management capability based on industry standard ways of working e.g. Itil, CMM, Prince2, Pfmp.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for all of the Trusts business critical IT, technical and software solutions including, but not limited to, Computer Aided Despatch (CAD), ePCR, e-Mail radio and mobile data transmission to in vehicle Mobile Data Terminals, corporate systems, infrastructure (voice, data, end user and technical environments).

The CDIO will need to understand and manage technologies and systems in a mixed environment making best use of our in-house teams, shared services and outsourced partners.

The CDIO will have a strong strategic and commercial understanding of technology and business intelligence and how it impacts a complex organisation. They will be comfortable with strategic and technical discussions at board level regarding the use one deployment if technology and its impact on the business.

The CDIO is expected to design and build an effective organisation to monitor Trust performance using data and information from the Trust systems to provide insights and enable an enhanced level of performance, to check, challenge and support improved care delivery.

The postholder will be responsible for a budget circa £11million and will be overseeing a team of approx. 80.