Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Band 8d

Job summary

This is a pivotal leadership role at the heart of Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's digital transformation journey. As the Transformation Lead in Digital, you will shape and deliver the strategic vision for how digital, technology and insights can radically improve patient care, staff experience, and operational efficiency. Working closely with the Chief Digital and Information Officer and senior leaders, you'll be instrumental in translating long-term ambitions into tangible, high-impact programmes that modernise services and unlock value across the organisation.

You'll lead the design and implementation of future-ready operating models, bringing together architecture, transformation, training, and clinical informatics into a cohesive digital ecosystem. This role demands deep expertise in digital strategy, enterprise architecture, and business change--alongside the ability to inspire and mobilise teams across clinical, corporate, and technical domains.

The scope of this role spans strategic planning, innovation, and workforce development. You'll oversee complex portfolios, manage significant budgets, and ensure robust assurance frameworks are in place to support safe, scalable, and resilient digital delivery for better patient care. Your leadership will extend beyond the Trust, representing GHFT in regional and national forums, and forging partnerships with academic, industry, and system stakeholders to accelerate innovation and shared learning.

Main duties of the job

- Utilise specialist skills in transformation of functions and services to modernise existing services

- Work collaboratively across all stakeholders in the system to ensure visibility and accountability across the digital portfolio

- Responsible for developing, agreeing and manage budgets to fund and deliver digital transformation

- Together with the strategic leadership team understand, build and develop the overall digital delivery roadmap, which includes data, digital and technology

- Enable a culture of rapid delivery, using both agile and waterfall methodologies, as appropriate

- Bring patient and community focus to ensure all digital change considers digital capabilities, readiness and user experience from the outset

- Enable achievement of exceptional levels of customer (digital service user) experience and service responsiveness

- Lead and modernise GHFT's digital architecture and development functions

- Lead the Clinical Informatics Team

- Develop and implement business change analytics capabilities

- Lead the development, integration and automation functions within Digital, Technology and Insights

- Champion the delivery of enterprise digital solutions that improve operational efficiency, safety, and quality of care.

- Align digital training and capability-building with business change activities and transformation programmes.

- Establish clear benefit frameworks aligned with business cases and strategic priorities

About us

We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.

With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one or both of our innovative hospitals.

As well as generous annual leave allowance, you will have access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on-site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Details

Date posted

17 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8d

Salary

£91,342 to £105,337 a year (pa pro rata if part-time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

318-25-T0719

Job locations

Trustwide (GRH / CGH)

Gloucestershire (Gloucester / Cheltenham)

GL1 3NN

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