Chief Transformation and Digital Officer: Sponsorship Available

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

Are you a strategic leader with a track record of coordinating transformation, improving performance and delivering organisational change at scale?

We are seeking an exceptional Chief Transformation and Digital Officer to join our Executive Team. This pivotal role will shape the future direction of the Trust, bringing together transformation, strategy, performance, data and analytics, digital and AI enablement into a single high-impact function.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you will oversee major transformation programmes, champion evidence-based decision making, and help create a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and innovation. You will ensure the Trust has a clear strategy and strong delivery oversight alongside ensuring an effective digital architecture to deliver the service to patients.

The successful candidate will bring significant senior leadership experience within a complex NHS, public sector or highly regulated environment, with a proven ability to deliver large-scale change, robust and resilience digital services, improve organisational performance and influence at Board level.

This is an outstanding opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of ambulance services across the South West, improving outcomes for patients, colleagues and the communities we serve.

Main duties of the job

We’re looking for an inspiring and values-driven leader who lives our values of Compassion, One Team and Innovation. If you lead with empathy, bring people together to achieve shared goals, and have the ambition to challenge the status quo and drive meaningful improvement, we’d love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to shape the future of our organisation while making a real difference for patients, colleagues and communities across the South West.

Assessments for shortlisted candidates will take place on 2nd December.

We encourage candidates to read the full Candidate Pack attached for more information.

Person Specification

Education and qualifications

Essential

  • Relevant masters degree or equivalent experience

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 15 November 2026

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