Senior Digital Transformation Lead: Sponsorship Available

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

The senior digital transformation lead is a senior leadership role to shape, deliver and optimise digital transformation across the North West London Acute Provider Group. You will lead a portfolio of clinical systems and EPR enabled change, ensuring programmes deliver measurable benefits, safe and high-quality implementation, improved adoption and better experiences for patients and staff.

Working across four NHS trusts, you will collaborate with executive leaders, senior clinicians, operational teams, digital specialists and suppliers to redesign care pathways, unwarranted variation and embed continuous improvement,. You will also lead and develop transformation and training teams, influence strategic decision-making and help turn the APG digital strategy into practical sustainable improvement across the wider EPR ecosystem

Main duties of the job

  • The post holder will lead specific multi-organisation digital transformation programmes and act as a key business partner for an APG trust.
  • They will oversee the design, implementation and optimisation of clinical systems and EPR-enabled change, translating clinical and operational priorities into deliverable plans, redesigned pathways and measurable benefits.
  • Key duties include chairing and facilitating stakeholder groups; engaging executives, senior clinicians, operational leaders, digital teams and suppliers; and providing clear assurance and progress reports to governance forums.
  • The role will ensure changes meet end user requirements to improve usability, productivity and efficiency whilst holding improved patient experience at the heart of everything they do. Changes must comply with clinical safety, information governance, cyber security, programme governance and national digital standards.
  • The post holder will analyse the impact of new processes, support clinical safety cases and hazard logs, develop policies and standard operating procedures, and use data and analytics to target adoption and improvement.
  • They will lead, motivate and develop transformation and training staff, manage performance and resources, support business cases and benefits realisation, and promote a collaborative culture of innovation and continuous improvement across all four trusts.

Person Specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential

  • Masters level qualification or equivalent experience in digital or allied field.
  • Post graduate qualification in a related subject or evidence of recent professional development.
  • Evidence of continuous professional development

Desirable

  • Formal project management
  • Qualification – Prince II
  • Digital qualification(s) appropriate to Technology Innovation role

Experience

Essential

  • Proven experience of undertaking change management within the NHS
  • Good understanding of the NHS and the national Information for Health Strategy and involvement in the production of local (organisation) or sector wide strategies
  • Knowledge of health information systems, electronic patient records in particular Cerner Millennium
  • Expert knowledge of Transformation / Change Management theory and techniques
  • Experience of staff management
  • Project Management and delivering projects

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: 1 November 2026

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