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Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) - NHS Board-Level Digital Leader / Executive Healthcare
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Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) - NHS Board-Level Digital Leader / Executive Healthcare
Are you a senior NHS digital leader ready to shape the future of healthcare?
We're supporting a leading Healthcare Trust in the appointment of a Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) to join the Executive Board and lead a major digital transformation programme across one of the UK's largest acute healthcare organisations.
This is a rare opportunity to influence strategy at Board level while driving innovation that will directly improve patient care, operational performance and long-term sustainability.
The Role
- Lead the Trust's digital, data and technology strategy across a complex NHS environment.
- Drive the optimisation of Epic EPR, digital transformation, AI, automation and advanced analytics.
- Play a key role in the delivery of a flagship new hospital programme, ensuring digital is embedded from design through to operation.
- Champion data-driven decision making, cyber security, information governance and digital resilience.
- Work alongside Executive Directors, clinicians and system partners to transform services through digital innovation, virtual care and population health initiatives.
- Provide strategic digital leadership at Executive Board level, ensuring technology and data support the Trust's wider clinical and operational objectives.
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Experience
- Mandatory NHS Board-level or Executive leadership experience within an NHS Trust or NHS organisation.
- Proven experience operating at Board level within the NHS, with the credibility to influence senior clinical, operational and corporate stakeholders.
- A strong track record delivering enterprise-wide digital transformation programmes within a complex NHS environment.
- Significant experience with Electronic Patient Records, ideally Epic, and NHS digital healthcare strategy.
- Expertise across data, analytics, cyber security, information governance and AI-enabled transformation.
- Experience leading large-scale digital programmes, ideally including major hospital development or transformation projects.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at Board and Executive level.
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This is an outstanding opportunity for an established NHS digital leader to take on a high-profile Executive Board position and lead one of the UK's most ambitious digital healthcare programmes, helping shape the future of patient care while delivering meaningful organisational change.
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