Chief Information Officer

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Purpose

The Chief Information Officer (CIO) will play a pivotal role in the Group’s leadership team. They will provide vision, professional leadership and strategic direction to achieve the Group’s aims and improvements in quality, efficiency and effectiveness.

The CIO reports directly to the Chief Executive Officer. They will be the lead expert responsible for delivery of the digital agenda within the Group, leading the use and adoption of new digital technologies and approaches including AI, deploying clinical benefits to gain productivity, enhance the working lives of colleagues and deliver improved patient experience. They will be able to work collaboratively with multi-professional clinical teams and administrative teams across all sites that make up the CCS and NCH&C Group model.

The CIO will work collaboratively with the ICS digital leadership teams across all the ICSs within the group footprint and play an active role in the development of digital strategy within them.

Key Duties and responsibilities

Corporate Leadership and Responsibilities

As a member of the Group Board and senior management team, contribute to the strategic and operational agenda, with a key role in the shaping of clinical and corporate services to improve population health outcomes, reduce health inequalities and meet the priorities of the trust and its commissioners. Work collaboratively with colleagues to drive delivery and improvement.

Actively contribute to the leadership of the Group, continually seeking to improve the safety, quality, sustainability and efficiency of services, to support the provision of excellent patient care.

Provide necessary, accurate and timely information to the Group Board to assist its decision making concerning the finances and relevant investment decisions across the organisation.

Comply with the Group’s standing financial instructions, standing orders, policies and the code of conduct for NHS managers.    Ensure the Group’s legal and statutory obligations are fulfilled in line with governance requirements within the resources available to organisation.

Create and maintain positive relationships with partners and external stakeholders to promote the trust and its services, encourages collaboration where appropriate.

Participate in Executive On call.

Work with other director colleagues to develop the Group’s reputation as a good employer, enhancing performance along with effective resource and skill utilisation.  Take a lead role across the Group on specific issues/topics (as agreed with the Group Board annually)

Maintain own professional and personal development.

Information technology, Information Management and Information Security.

·       Lead the development and implementation of the Group’s Digital vision and strategy, championing the use of digital technology and practices.

·       Oversee the maintenance and modernisation of the ICT infrastructure, identifying and mitigating any risks.

·       Responsible for information management and information security.

·       Identify and effectively manage information governance related risks and information and cyber security issues, communicating the importance of this across the Group and engendering a collective responsibility.

·       Ensure that the Group’s digital related policies (including information risk management, cyber security, and business continuity) are contemporary and compliant with relevant regulation and guidance.

·       Provide expert advice to the Chief Executive and the Group Board relating to Digital and Information issues, in particular highlighting both potential risks and opportunities for improving patient care and safety and Group performance.

·       Ensure that digital initiatives are fully integrated with annual planning processes.

 Digital Transformation and Innovation

·       Responsible for the development and delivery of a Group Digital Transformation vision and strategy which also promotes digital skills and digital inclusion, ensuring it is aligned with the Trust’s strategic direction.

·       In collaboration with executive colleagues, drive reform and support organisational change, fostering innovation and excellence.

·       Manage the ongoing development of access to data for research, maintaining the highest standards of security and confidentiality.

·       Participate in national initiatives and forums to raise the profile and reputation of the Group as a digital exemplar and to influence policy and funding allocations for the benefit of the Group, its health and care partners and patients.

·       Work collaboratively across the Group, its partners and wider ICS’s  to champion digital transformation.

Data and Analytics

·       Enable a business intelligence led organisation, ensuring high quality data supports effective decision  making and quality improvements  

·       Ensure that accessing, processing, reporting and presentation of information is underpinned by the requirement to provide high quality business intelligence that supports effective decision-making and quality improvements.

·       Drive digital innovation as a change agent to enable clinically led digital transformation and move the organisation to be data driven.

Senior Information Risk Owner

·       Lead the Trust’s information risk strategy and policy, ensuring exceptional  data safety and compliance with relevant regulations.

·       To lead at Board level the Trust’s Statement of Internal Control as it relates to information risk.

Directorate responsibilities

   Lead and manage the directorate, ensuring exemplary leadership, development and achievement of the annual objectives for the directorate.

     Be an authorised signatory at director level and be responsible for the budget for the directorate.

 Support and deliver directorate contributions to organisational cost improvement plans and efficiency challenges.