Deputy Chief Digital Information Officer (Band 8d)

As part of delivery against its Trust and Digital Strategies, the Trust has the opportunity to realise its digital aspiration as part of the Digital Aspirant Programme.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Trust to play an active and leading role in the Trust’s delivery of digital systems and services, including delivery and optimisation of the new EPR.

The post holder will play a key role in the delivery of high-quality digital services and will support the effective day to day digital services across the organisation, as well as having overall responsibility for the effective management of clinical systems throughout the Trust and EPR shared with Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.

Interview Date : 14th March 2025

The Deputy Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO) is a key member of the Digital Senior Leadership Team. They deputise substantively at Executive and where necessary Board level for the Chief Digital Information Officer. Additionally and specifically, they are the professional lead for Digital Services and the subject matter expert responsible for the development and delivery of the technology underpinnings to the Digital Transformation Strategy of the organisation. They must ensure this reflects and integrates the requirements of all relevant partners across the Trust driving progress towards delivery of the national What Good Looks Like framework and the Target State Architecture in collaboration with colleagues at AFT, across BACW and the West Yorks ICS. They must ensure this enables the organisation to more effectively deliver its refreshed Corporate Strategy – Our Patients, Our Place, Our People and Our Partners.

Working with the Chief Digital and Information Officer, the Chief Clinical Information Officer and the Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO), this post will take particular responsibility for providing direction and leadership on the deployment, stabilisation and optimisation of the EPR system and the successful use of other interfacing systems.

The post will also work closely with the Securing the Future team as part of the New Hospital Programme (NHP) providing support and advice on all digital elements of building Airedale’s new hospital.

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network

Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

STRATEGIC

• As a member of Senior Management Team, you will help develop the Team’s strategic direction, and contribute to the overall leadership, direction and management of the Team.
• Establish effective relationships with systems supplier’s team, exploiting change expertise available from the supplier’s team and other supplier’s Trusts.
• In conjunction with the CDIO and CCIO making executive decisions on behalf of the Trust’s technological requirements.
• To provide exemplar technical and professional support on a wide range of information, technology and data legislation, with a focus on Digital Governance.
• Support delivery of the Trust strategy with special attention to cross-organisational issues and workflows.
• Represent the Trust within the NHS and wider community and with partner organisations, and working closely with them to institute integrated working in the best interests of patient care.
• Support the CDIO as the Trust’s lead on digital systems planning across the wider health and social care system at Place – Act As One – and within the West Yorkshire and Harrogate and Yorkshire ICS, West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts and the North East and Yorkshire Region.

TACTICAL

• Responsible for providing appropriate professional development and guidance to the senior team and the wider teams.
• Lead on the integration of digital systems with business, service and financial planning.
• To work with Executive and Deputy Directors, Service managers and clinicians to identify and deliver opportunities to implement best practice to ensure the Trust is a high performer against all known local, national and international benchmarks including but not limited to Model Hospital and Getting it Right First Time programmes.
• Commission and conduct research into specific areas of digital informatics activity, including technical solutions, data provision, employee/citizen engagement, legislation, policy, benchmarking and good practice.

OPERATIONAL

• Direct the overall implementation of the EPR and the projects that sit within this, supported by the EPR programme manager.
• Ensure all returns to external bodies are completed and integrated with financial returns. This includes returns to NHS England, the ICB as well as ad hoc information to other external bodies.
• Deputise for the Chief Digital and Information Officer, including attendance at internal and external meetings (e.g., Executive Directors Group, Board meetings, Y & H Directors Forum, etc.).
• Accountable for the performance, welfare and wellbeing of a large scale technical and operational team.
• Accountable for the performance, welfare and wellbeing of the IT Infrastructure, Application and Integration, and Asset and Licensing teams.
• Monitor the performance and utilisation of Digital and Information systems across the organisation and support the introduction of remedial steps where necessary.
• Actively contribute to the realisation of benefits from delivering different ways of working enabled by delivery of digital transformation.
• Overall accountability for the EPR and Digital transformation programme controls ensuring monitoring and control activities and performance targets are on track.
• Establish and sustain systems and processes for the management of risk, change control and issue resolution processes.
• Lead as an expert; integrating systems and managing effective working relationships with the appropriate stakeholders.
• To ensure that there is a consistent approach to transformational efficiency planning and delivery so that there is a continuous pipeline of potential schemes to include service redesign and which will positively transform systems.
• Work with programme and Trust colleagues to embed change and improvement methodologies that can be used throughout the Digital division to promote transformation.
• Ensure systems and processes are in place to identify programme resources required to successfully deliver change and to liaise with relevant Manager(s) to ensure availability and allocation.
• Perform any other duties commensurate with the grade of post as delegated by the Chief Digital and Information Officer.

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