Chief Digital Information Officer

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., 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.

Please note that the salary range noted on the vacancy is in line with agenda for change (AFC) pay scales. All successful applicants would be placed automatically at the bottom of the banding, unless proven, relevant NHS or equivalent experience can be demonstrated.

Following the revision of current national legislation (Vaccine as a Condition of Deployment), the Trust has reviewed our requirements relating to staff uptake of the SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) vaccination.

Going forward, for patient facing positions, we strongly recommend that new starters will be appropriately vaccinated unless medically exempt in order to offer greater protection against exposure to the virus for front line staff.

In line with this recommendation, if you are successful in your application for a front line post, we will seek information from you in relation to your vaccine status, including exemption status, as applicable.

Please note, all positions come with a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check relevant to the post. This will either be a basic, standard, or enhanced check depending on the role. The level of check will be outlined in the conditional offer letter sent to successful applicants.

As part of the application process, you will be asked to declare any unspent/unfiltered convictions. If you are shortlisted you will then be sent a self declaration form, which must be completed prior to attending interview. for any queries relating to declarations, please contact the Recruitment Advisor listed on the vacancy.

The Trust is passionately committed to being an inclusive employer – a place where we can all be ourselves and succeed. As an employer we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, staff engagement networks, facilities and services to support staff from different backgrounds.

We actively support equality of opportunity for all our staff and welcome applications from individuals regardless of age, any disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief. The Trust is making progress towards its aim of becoming more reflective of the diversity of our community in our workforce and guarantees an interview to candidates with disability who meet the essential criteria specified. We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and disabled applicants and those from other under-represented groups.

The Equality Act 2010 protects disabled people – including those with long term health conditions, learning disabilities and hidden disabilities such as dyslexia. If you tell us that you have a disability we can make reasonable adjustments to ensure that any selection processes – including the interview – are fair and equitable.

We are a committed to offering opportunities to individuals with disabilities and offer on-going support, should you be successful, with any adjustments you may need when performing your role.

When completing the application please use your name as it appears on your passport and please ensure you include email addresses and contact numbers for your referees to avoid delay in the recruitment process.

Please note that under our Trust policies, we’re unable to employ anyone under the age of 18 years old.

The majority of our roles will include some travel between sites for business purposes. If the vacancy you’re applying for includes work related travel, you will be required to ensure that you hold and have covered the cost of suitable car insurance to support this.

Should you require an application form in an alternative format including large print or braille, please contact [email protected] stating the vacancy reference number and we will be happy to provide this.

When completing the reference section, please include details to cover the last three years’ history.

Due to the high volume of applications at SECAmb, we regret that we will only be able to contact those applicants who are shortlisted for interview. If you have not heard from us within 10 working days of the closing date, then please assume you have not been shortlisted for interview on this particular occasion.

Please note that we contact all applicants via Trac Jobs and would advise you check your Trac Jobs account regularly.

Please be aware that the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. For this reason we recommend completing your application as early as possible.

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• Option to join NHS pension scheme

• A minimum 27 days’ holiday each year, increasing after 5 years’ service.

• Personal and professional development and training opportunities.

• Salary Sacrifice schemes for cars or push bikes.

• Access to occupational health and counselling services.

• Award winning wellbeing hub

• Back up buddy App

• Access to NHS discounts, offering NHS employees a range of money-saving deals.