Job summary
The Chief DigitalInformation Officer (CDIO) will drive the development and delivery of the BOBdigital, data and analytics strategy to achieve our vision, enable the deliveryof our wider ICB and ICS strategies, within the wider South-East region anddigital ecosystem. We adopt the term digital to mean Applying the culture,processes, business models and technologies of the internet era to respond topeoples raised expectations for health and care.
The CDIO will bea member of the Integrate Care Board (ICB) unitary board and executive team,reporting to the ICB chief executive, and will work closely with the leadersacross all partners in the system including provider trusts, commissioners,local authorities, voluntary sector and regulators.
This role is flexible across Oxford, Berkshire West and Buckinghamshire
Main duties of the job
As a member ofthe Executive Team, each Director is jointly responsible for contributing tothe achievement of the four core purposes of Integrated Care Systems;
To improve outcomes in populationhealth and healthcare;
Tackle inequalities in outcomes,experience and access;
Enhance productivity and value formoney
Help the NHS support broader socialand economic development.
As a senior role,the incumbent will be required to take part in the ICB on-call arrangements.
About us
TheBuckinghamshire, Oxfordshire & Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care System(ICS) vision is to improve the lives and experiences of those accessing andworking in our ICS, through building collective digital and data maturityacross our partners and providers.
The IntegratedCare Board is the NHS organisation that coordinates the provision of careacross BOB, working partners in across the NHS, local authorities, academia,industry and the voluntary sector.
As a newly created ICB we are committed to having a workforce thatreflects the communities we support and are actively seeking to improve thediversity of our workforce. We welcome applications from all under-representedcommunities and groups and are particularly keen to attract candidates fromethnic minority groups
Job description
Job responsibilities
Be the key focal point andinstigator for world-class digital innovation across the ICS. Specifically, it will be essential for you tostrategically lead the movement towards supporting people at home usingemerging digital interventions (such as virtual consultations, virtual wards,remote care) and the creation of e-hubs.
Provide professional leadership ofthe system from the perspective of digital and data as embedded enablers toservice transformation with increased data interoperability across caresettings and pathways and commons standards facilitating a seamless experiencefor patients and staff alike.
Create, encourage, and implement a digital-firstapproach across the ICS,fostering the sharing ofinnovative improvement ideas amongst frontline staff.
Ensure local achievement of theWhat Good Looks Like guidance and forthcoming target state architectureframework, as set out by NHSEI, ensuring all organisations in the local systemachieve at least a good state of digital maturity.
Take forward the development of anICB based data architecture, drawing data from all providers and partners forsecondary use and for growing an expert workforce as a professional workforceacross the area.
Be responsible for developing anddriving the implementation of the ICB plans Digital and InformationTransformation Strategy to achieve the quadruple aims across health and socialcare, primary and secondary care, physical and mental health care. Ensuringcoherence with national health and care policy, standards, and strategicpriorities. Including the NHS Long Term Plan and the Net Zero agenda.
Ensure that there is a robust andeffective process for information governance and in this regard providerDigital Directors will have a dotted line professional responsibility into theICB Director of Digital Transformation.
Ensure that digital programmes and operationshave funding and budgets are effectively managed.
Ensurethe digital budgetary approach and controls are in place, working closely withsystem partners to deliver financially sustainable services.
Drive the leadership andmanagement of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) strategy to support the safeand efficient sourcing, implementation, and adoption of digital and datasolutions to transform the planning and delivery of care and wider businessoperations.
Ensure that there is a robustsystem-wide plan and contingency measures in place for supporting business asusual live service operations for all providers across the health and caresystem, including the capacity and capability to execute and support this.
Support the production and deliveryof a five-year plan for the ICB with other board members, partners across theICS and the local community.
Ensure the ICS achieves allrelevant cyber security standards and compliance with the Data Security andProtection Toolkit (DSPT) and maintains high levels of cyber-resilience andredundancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Be the key focal point andinstigator for world-class digital innovation across the ICS. Specifically, it will be essential for you tostrategically lead the movement towards supporting people at home usingemerging digital interventions (such as virtual consultations, virtual wards,remote care) and the creation of e-hubs.
Provide professional leadership ofthe system from the perspective of digital and data as embedded enablers toservice transformation with increased data interoperability across caresettings and pathways and commons standards facilitating a seamless experiencefor patients and staff alike.
Create, encourage, and implement a digital-firstapproach across the ICS,fostering the sharing ofinnovative improvement ideas amongst frontline staff.
Ensure local achievement of theWhat Good Looks Like guidance and forthcoming target state architectureframework, as set out by NHSEI, ensuring all organisations in the local systemachieve at least a good state of digital maturity.
Take forward the development of anICB based data architecture, drawing data from all providers and partners forsecondary use and for growing an expert workforce as a professional workforceacross the area.
Be responsible for developing anddriving the implementation of the ICB plans Digital and InformationTransformation Strategy to achieve the quadruple aims across health and socialcare, primary and secondary care, physical and mental health care. Ensuringcoherence with national health and care policy, standards, and strategicpriorities. Including the NHS Long Term Plan and the Net Zero agenda.
Ensure that there is a robust andeffective process for information governance and in this regard providerDigital Directors will have a dotted line professional responsibility into theICB Director of Digital Transformation.
Ensure that digital programmes and operationshave funding and budgets are effectively managed.
Ensurethe digital budgetary approach and controls are in place, working closely withsystem partners to deliver financially sustainable services.
Drive the leadership andmanagement of Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) strategy to support the safeand efficient sourcing, implementation, and adoption of digital and datasolutions to transform the planning and delivery of care and wider businessoperations.
Ensure that there is a robustsystem-wide plan and contingency measures in place for supporting business asusual live service operations for all providers across the health and caresystem, including the capacity and capability to execute and support this.
Support the production and deliveryof a five-year plan for the ICB with other board members, partners across theICS and the local community.
Ensure the ICS achieves allrelevant cyber security standards and compliance with the Data Security andProtection Toolkit (DSPT) and maintains high levels of cyber-resilience andredundancy.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
- Management qualification.
- Quality Improvement/Change Management or related PGM qualifications or equivalent extensive experience.
- Membership of a relevant professional area BCS, AphA) and/or Federation of Informatics Professionals
- Demonstrable evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable
- Educated to MBA degree level or relevant experience.
- International Certificate Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) Certification.
- Membership of CHIME.
- Graduate of the NHS Digital Academy.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience at a director level in leading digitisation, strategy and roadmap development, and execution to improve customer/consumer experience and outcomes.
- Extensive senior commercial experience and knowledge in the development and deployment of digital technologies and channels that lead to subsequent uptake to yield major cost improvements and enhanced end user outcomes.
- Extensive experience of developing and implementing effective systems and processes in a large organisation, or across a network of organisations, using agile approaches where appropriate.
- Extensive experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions.
- Experience and success in addressing discrimination and inequalities.
- Experience of delivering executive leadership in skills and career path development to DDaT professional leaders in the constituent organisations of the ICS and professionalization generally of the workforce in digital and data enabled transformation.
- Ability to lead complex and sometimes contentious change and transformation at significant scale, beyond implementation, to achieve successful and sustained adoption.
Desirable
- Significant experience of working in the commercial IT environment or at least awareness of the business ethos and how this contributes to public service delivery.
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public health.
- Working with the directly influencing internal and external stakeholders.
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- Ability to interpret highly complex data and information to inform ICB decision making.
- Contemporary thinking on practices, which reduce health inequality, improve patient access, safety support a well led organisation.
- Sound understanding of financial planning and budgeting, and oversight and control of public funds.
Skills
Essential
- Exceptional communication skills, which engender community confidence, strong collaborations, and partnership.
- Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action. Analytical rigour and numeracy.
- Sophisticated leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and system levels.
- Ability to work and prioritise effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
- Awareness of political sensitivities.
- Ability to drive innovation.
- Evidence of previous digital leadership roles in large complex organisations.
- Ability to work with incomplete information, using experience to make judgements and credible decision making.
Personal values
Essential
- Commitment to the values of the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS People Plan, Nolan Principle and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
- Demonstrable compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, and inclusion. This should include awareness of gender, ethnicity and other characteristics that help grow a culture that embraces digital skills in support of remote monitoring and hybrid working aligned to the sustainability agenda (Net Zero/Greener NHS).
- Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience
- Management qualification.
- Quality Improvement/Change Management or related PGM qualifications or equivalent extensive experience.
- Membership of a relevant professional area BCS, AphA) and/or Federation of Informatics Professionals
- Demonstrable evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable
- Educated to MBA degree level or relevant experience.
- International Certificate Healthcare CIO (CHCIO) Certification.
- Membership of CHIME.
- Graduate of the NHS Digital Academy.
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience at a director level in leading digitisation, strategy and roadmap development, and execution to improve customer/consumer experience and outcomes.
- Extensive senior commercial experience and knowledge in the development and deployment of digital technologies and channels that lead to subsequent uptake to yield major cost improvements and enhanced end user outcomes.
- Extensive experience of developing and implementing effective systems and processes in a large organisation, or across a network of organisations, using agile approaches where appropriate.
- Extensive experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions.
- Experience and success in addressing discrimination and inequalities.
- Experience of delivering executive leadership in skills and career path development to DDaT professional leaders in the constituent organisations of the ICS and professionalization generally of the workforce in digital and data enabled transformation.
- Ability to lead complex and sometimes contentious change and transformation at significant scale, beyond implementation, to achieve successful and sustained adoption.
Desirable
- Significant experience of working in the commercial IT environment or at least awareness of the business ethos and how this contributes to public service delivery.
Knowledge
Essential
- Extensive knowledge of the health, care and local government landscape and an understanding of the social determinants of public health.
- Working with the directly influencing internal and external stakeholders.
-
- Ability to interpret highly complex data and information to inform ICB decision making.
- Contemporary thinking on practices, which reduce health inequality, improve patient access, safety support a well led organisation.
- Sound understanding of financial planning and budgeting, and oversight and control of public funds.
Skills
Essential
- Exceptional communication skills, which engender community confidence, strong collaborations, and partnership.
- Strong critical thinking and strategic problem solving; the ability to contribute to a joint strategic plan and undertake problem resolution and action. Analytical rigour and numeracy.
- Sophisticated leadership and influencing skills; building compassionate cultures where individuals and teams thrive at organisation, partnership, and system levels.
- Ability to work and prioritise effectively between strategic and operational activities where required.
- Awareness of political sensitivities.
- Ability to drive innovation.
- Evidence of previous digital leadership roles in large complex organisations.
- Ability to work with incomplete information, using experience to make judgements and credible decision making.
Personal values
Essential
- Commitment to the values of the NHS Long Term Plan, the NHS People Plan, Nolan Principle and the Fit and Proper Persons regime.
- Demonstrable compassionate leadership style with a track record of improvements to equality, diversity, and inclusion. This should include awareness of gender, ethnicity and other characteristics that help grow a culture that embraces digital skills in support of remote monitoring and hybrid working aligned to the sustainability agenda (Net Zero/Greener NHS).
- Lives by the values of openness and integrity and has created cultures where this thrives.
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.
UK Registration
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Additional information
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
