Group Chief Digital Officer

Barts Health NHS Trust is seeking a Group Chief Digital Officer (CDO) who will operate as a key executive leader for digital infrastructure and development across Barts Health NHS Trust, with a significant leadership role across the North East London Integrated Care System (NEL ICS) and national digital networks. The CDO will provide strategic and operational leadership for the Trust's digital portfolio, ensuring digital technology is embedded as a core enabler of safe, high-quality, efficient and equitable care.

As the Trust's most senior digital leader, the CDO will be accountable for delivering major digital transformation programmes, including Electronic Patient Record (EPR) optimisation, the development of resilient and secure digital infrastructure, and the advancement of data, analytics and digital capabilities., Operating at Board and system level, you will combine strategic leadership with strong commercial, financial and operational oversight, building effective partnerships with clinicians, system partners, industry and academia.

You will bring significant executive-level experience leading large-scale digital transformation in complex, regulated environments, with a strong track record in EPR optimisation, commercial leadership and working across organisational boundaries. You will be a credible, values-led leader, able to influence at Board, system and national level.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.