Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Chief Digital and Information Officer

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Job Overview
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As Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO), you will provide strategic and executive leadership for Frimley Health’s digital, data, information, AI and technology agenda, ensuring digital capability is embedded at the heart of delivering safe, high-quality, efficient and person-centred care.
As a Trust Board member, you will play a full role in the strategic leadership of the organisation, sharing collective responsibility for quality, performance, finance, workforce, culture, risk management and the delivery of safe and effective services.
Leading a diverse portfolio spanning digital delivery, data and analytics, clinical coding, Epic optimisation, cyber security, information governance and clinical informatics, you will drive service transformation, productivity, clinical excellence, patient experience and financial sustainability.
Working with a highly experienced senior leadership team, you will ensure a clear distinction between maintaining reliable day-to-day digital services and delivering transformational change, with both functions measured against their own outcomes and success criteria.
Please see the above candidate pack for a full range of duties and responsibilities for this role.
Please note - If applying for this role - Please include a covering letter to be embedded in your CV which will then be uploaded when you make your application via trac.
Main duties of the job
- Digital strategy and transformation, aligned to FHFT 2030, the clinical strategy, the new hospital programme and system responsibilities.
- Epic optimisation making the EPR a clinician-centred platform that demonstrably improves workflow, documentation, patient flow and clinical decision support.
- Information, analytics and business intelligence building a trusted, well-governed data capability including the Trust data lake, self-service reporting and advanced analytics.
- Clinical coding and information quality.
- AI strategy, governance and adoption moving from pilots to safe, governed production at scale, with a protected innovation budget.
- Virtual care, remote monitoring, population health intelligence and digitally enabled pathways.
- The new Frimley Park Hospital ensuring it is digitally enabled, data-rich, AI-ready and designed around future models of care.
- Connected Care exploitation, population segmentation and system intelligence.
- Cyber security, digital resilience, information governance and SIRO responsibilities.
- Digital operations, service management and 24/7 reliability of clinical and corporate systems.
- Digital capital planning, asset lifecycle management and end-to-end commercial and contract management.
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Why Join Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust?
At Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, our people are at the heart of everything we do.
As a Disability Confident Employer and recipient of the Gold Award in the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme, we actively champion equality, diversity and inclusion, creating opportunities for people from all backgrounds to build rewarding careers within the NHS.
We also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance. By supporting flexible working arrangements wherever possible, we enable our colleagues to balance their professional and personal commitments while continuing to deliver outstanding care to our patients. Whether flexibility means adjusted hours, part-time working, hybrid arrangements or alternative working patterns, we work in partnership with our staff to meet both individual and service needs.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see attached the candidate pack in the job overview for a full range of duties and responsibilities of this role.
Please note - If applying for this role as per the instruction in the candidate pack on how to apply - The covering letter should be embedded in your CV which will then be uploaded when you make your application via trac.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master's level or equivalent senior experience
- evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- A recognised programme management qualification (e.g. MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner) and/or a service management qualification (e.g. ITIL).
General Requirements
Essential criteria
- Undertake statutory and mandatory training and maintain professional competence.
- Work flexibly across Trust sites and with system partners, including participation in the executive on-call rota.
- Comply with all Trust policies including equality, diversity and inclusion, health and safety, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, risk management, data protection and information governance.
Competence
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing significant revenue and capital budgets, digital capital planning and an end-to-end commercial lifecycle — sourcing, procurement and contract management — for a large, complex estate.
- Proven ability to work across organisational boundaries and influence within an ICS or wider system.
- A visible, compassionate and inclusive leader who can lead complex change at scale, build high-performing teams, establish clear accountability and delegate effectively, with outstanding communication and influencing skills.
- Integrity, openness, courage, humility and resilience, with patients, staff and communities at the centre of your decisions.
- Comply with all Trust policies including equality, diversity and inclusion, health and safety, safeguarding, infection prevention and control, risk management, data protection and information governance.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of shared care record platforms and population segmentation methodologies such as Johns Hopkins ACG.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial senior digital, data, technology or transformation leadership at or near Board level in a large, complex NHS, public sector or comparable organisation.
- A track record of developing and delivering digital, data or technology strategies and major programmes with measurable improvements in quality, productivity, performance or outcomes.
- Strong working understanding of the NHS digital, data, cyber, information governance, clinical safety, EPR and statutory reporting context.
- Strong understanding of EPRs and their role in clinical transformation, ideally including Epic and digital maturity frameworks such as HIMSS EMRAM.


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Desirable criteria
- Experience of leading the safe, ethical and well-governed adoption of AI, automation and advanced analytics, and of evaluating and scaling digital innovation.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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