Chief Clinical Information Officer (Nursing and AHP)

The Christie NHS FT

Job summary

The ambition of the Christie for excellence must be met by our leaders with the same ambition. Now more than ever, our technology will serve to push forward excellence in ways we have not experienced previously. Clinical leadership in the digital domain for healthcare and research is a rapidly evolving field that presents opportunity, all of which needs to be guided as part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team.

The Chief Clinical Information Officer provides strategic leadership at the interface of clinical practice and digital transformation, ensuring that digital systems support safe, effective, and high-quality patient care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead the clinical design, implementation, optimisation, and evaluation of digital systems, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, national policy, and patient safety standards.

This is a highly visible senior leadership role, positioned within the Digital Services senior team and the nursing leadership structure. The post holder will provide strategic oversight of a clinical digital transformation team, including digital nurses, and work collaboratively across clinical, operational, and digital teams to ensure that systems and services are safe, high quality, and fit for purpose, ultimately supporting improved patient outcomes and clinical practice.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered as a clinical professional with the, NMC, HCPC, or equivalent professional registration body
  • Educated to Master’s level or equivalent training and experience
  • Digital Clinical Safety Officer training or demonstrable equivalent

Desirable

  • Doctoral qualification
  • Post graduate qualification in leadership and/or management
  • Digital Academy Programme Graduate
  • Member of a national Digital Health Advisory Panel

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstrable experience of Senior Management within the healthcare setting
  • Demonstrable experience of leading and managing trust wide projects at a senior/strategic level
  • Experience of leading a team and delivering excellence through others
  • Proven achievement in developing policy and service objectives, establishing and implementing innovative solutions
  • Ability to ensure a balance between empowering others to act and holding to account in order to achieve agreed targets and objectives
  • Experience of developing and implementing quality assurance processes and systems
  • Experience in leading service development, and the implementation / management of change
  • Experience of policy development and implementation
  • Significant experience and understanding of the value that digital technology and information brings to improving quality of care, outcomes, and efficiency
  • Experience of ensuring that patients, staff and the public are engaged as an integral part of transformation programmes and that safety and experience are considered at every stage
  • Experience of creating diverse and inclusive teams that are motivated and inspired to work together to achieve a common objective

Desirable

  • Experience in management position at directorate level and above

Skills

Essential

  • Excellent communication skills including the ability to articulate clinical issues to technical colleagues and conversely technical aspects to non-technical colleague
  • Advanced interpersonal skills, able to influence and negotiate with colleagues on all levels(internally and externally), including senior and frontline clinical staff
  • Highly developed programme and project management skills
  • Evidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies
  • Ability to deliver complex presentations to a multi-professional audience
  • Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills
  • Demonstrates high degree of autonomy and complex decision making
  • Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
  • Demonstratable IT skills in being able to find, manage, store and share digital information, data and content. Competent in Microsoft Office programmes

Knowledge

Essential

  • An understanding of the Digital Strategy of the NHS and its implications
  • Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS landscape and policy and ability to interpret and implement in clinical practice

Values

Essential

  • Demonstrates flexibility in working hours
  • Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, to cope with demanding and unpredictable work pattern
  • Enthusiasm and inspirational skills
  • Commitment to equality, diversity and human rights
  • Appreciation of and astuteness in political issues
  • Highly developed interpersonal skills
  • Team leader/player

Other

Essential

  • Requirement for occasional travel to external meetings and events
  • Ability to work out-of-hours, weekend and public holidays if required by exception

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: 20 July 2026

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