Job summary
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust (CPFT) is seeking a Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) to lead digital transformation across our integrated mental health, community and specialist services.
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of patient care at the heart of one of the UK's most dynamic health ecosystems, working alongside world-class academic, clinical, and digital partners.
The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on clinical practice. You will champion clinically-led digital innovation, ensure safe and inclusive digital solutions, and act as a trusted advisor to the Board. You'll also help drive system-wide digital collaborations.
We welcome applications from senior clinicians (medical or non-medical) with strong informatics leadership experience and a commitment to improving patient outcomes through technology, data, and co-designed innovation.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will undertake regular clinical duties equivalent to 4 Programmed Activities (PAs) for a consultant or 0.4 Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) for non-medical staff.
The clinical component will be tailored to the candidate's background and professional interests, and agreed with the relevant Clinical Director and the Chief Medical Officer. Clinical work may be undertaken in mental health, physical health, or specialist services.
The post holder must be clinically competent and professionally registered (e.g., GMC specialist register, NMC, HCPC) and meet Trust standards for revalidation, CPD, supervision, and appraisal. The clinical component is substantive, not honorary, and the post holder is expected to deliver direct patient care.
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Strategic Digital Leadership
- Provide clinical leadership to develop and implement the Trusts Digital Strategy in alignment with the What Good Looks Like framework.
- Act as a key clinical adviser to the Trust Board and executive leadership on digital health, AI, automation, and technology-enabled care.
- Represent the Trust in system-wide digital initiatives across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System.
- Represent the Trust in national, regional and local digital transformation projects.
- Support the delivery of national policies and strategies driving NHS digitisation, including the recently launched Fit for the Future: 10 year Health Plan for England
Clinical Informatics and Safety
- Lead the development and implementation of safe, usable, and effective digital clinical systems.
- Oversee clinical safety governance in line with NHS Digital safety standards (DCB0129/0160).
- Champion the use of data and digital tools to enhance clinical quality, patient safety, and outcomes.
- Serve as clinical lead or Senior Responsible Officer for major digital programmes (e.g., EPR optimisation, AI pilots, remote monitoring tools).
- Work in partnership with the Trusts Cambridge Childrens Hospital digital lead to contribute to the development and implementation of the EPR and broader digital innovation programme within the new children's hospital.
Workforce Development & Capability Building
- Promote the development of clinical informatics skills across all professional groups within the Trust, including analysts and clinicians. .
- Mentor and support aspiring clinical informaticians across all professional groups.
- Lead initiatives to build digital literacy and capability among clinical staff, supporting CPD and career development.
- Support the integration of digital skills into clinical education.
Engagement & Change Leadership
- Act as a visible and accessible digital leader across all services and professions.
Ensure meaningful co-design and engagement with service users, carers, and patients in all aspects of digital and service transformation.
Work collaboratively with clinicians and digital teams to align transformation efforts with frontline clinical needs and best practice.
- Support change management efforts by translating clinical needs into digital requirements and vice versa.
Equity & Inclusion
- Promote digital inclusion and equity in service design and access for patients .
- Champion the ethical use of health technologies including AI, predictive analytics, and automation.
- Ensure that digital solutions meet the needs of diverse populations and vulnerable groups.
Research, Innovation and Partnerships
- Support clinical research and improvement projects involving digital health or data science.
- Collaborate with academic and industry partners to develop digital solutions aligned to the Trusts clinical strategy.
Key Working relationships for CCIO role:
- Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Executive (CEO)
- Executive Team
- Executive Digital and Clinical Leadership (CDIO, CMO, CNIO, SIRO)
- Operational and Clinical Directorate Teams
- Digital Services, Data & Analytics, Clinical Systems, and Transformation Teams
- ICS Digital Programme Leads and Regional Partners
- Faculty of Clinical Informatics, national informatics bodies and national CCIO/CIO networks
- Service Users, Carers, and Co-production Groups
Key Responsibilities - Clinical Role and General
Specific clinical responsibilities will be agreed in consultation with the relevant Clinical Director, based on the postholders professional discipline, specialty, and substantive role.
Medical practitioners will be expected to practise in accordance with the General Medical Councils Good Medical Practice. Practitioners from other professional backgrounds will adhere to the equivalent standards set by their respective regulatory bodies.
Generic responsibilities relevant to all clinicians include:
Quality and Patient Safety
- Provide and champion safe, evidence-based, and person-centred care in all areas of responsibility
- Promote safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults
- Implement NICE and other statutory guidance where relevant
- Ensure infection prevention and control standards are met
- Contribute to the Trusts quality, governance, and risk management processes
- Report incidents and support organisational learning
- Contribute to Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) responses
- Adhere to information governance, confidentiality, and data protection policies
- Maintain awareness of relevant legislation, standards, and best practice
- Maintain awareness of the collective responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy environment for patients/carers visitors, and staff, in line with health and safety regulations and organisational policies.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities.
Strategic Digital Leadership
- Provide clinical leadership to develop and implement the Trusts Digital Strategy in alignment with the What Good Looks Like framework.
- Act as a key clinical adviser to the Trust Board and executive leadership on digital health, AI, automation, and technology-enabled care.
- Represent the Trust in system-wide digital initiatives across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Integrated Care System.
- Represent the Trust in national, regional and local digital transformation projects.
- Support the delivery of national policies and strategies driving NHS digitisation, including the recently launched Fit for the Future: 10 year Health Plan for England
Clinical Informatics and Safety
- Lead the development and implementation of safe, usable, and effective digital clinical systems.
- Oversee clinical safety governance in line with NHS Digital safety standards (DCB0129/0160).
- Champion the use of data and digital tools to enhance clinical quality, patient safety, and outcomes.
- Serve as clinical lead or Senior Responsible Officer for major digital programmes (e.g., EPR optimisation, AI pilots, remote monitoring tools).
- Work in partnership with the Trusts Cambridge Childrens Hospital digital lead to contribute to the development and implementation of the EPR and broader digital innovation programme within the new children's hospital.
Workforce Development & Capability Building
- Promote the development of clinical informatics skills across all professional groups within the Trust, including analysts and clinicians. .
- Mentor and support aspiring clinical informaticians across all professional groups.
- Lead initiatives to build digital literacy and capability among clinical staff, supporting CPD and career development.
- Support the integration of digital skills into clinical education.
Engagement & Change Leadership
- Act as a visible and accessible digital leader across all services and professions.
Ensure meaningful co-design and engagement with service users, carers, and patients in all aspects of digital and service transformation.
Work collaboratively with clinicians and digital teams to align transformation efforts with frontline clinical needs and best practice.
- Support change management efforts by translating clinical needs into digital requirements and vice versa.
Equity & Inclusion
- Promote digital inclusion and equity in service design and access for patients .
- Champion the ethical use of health technologies including AI, predictive analytics, and automation.
- Ensure that digital solutions meet the needs of diverse populations and vulnerable groups.
Research, Innovation and Partnerships
- Support clinical research and improvement projects involving digital health or data science.
- Collaborate with academic and industry partners to develop digital solutions aligned to the Trusts clinical strategy.
Key Working relationships for CCIO role:
- Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Chief Executive (CEO)
- Executive Team
- Executive Digital and Clinical Leadership (CDIO, CMO, CNIO, SIRO)
- Operational and Clinical Directorate Teams
- Digital Services, Data & Analytics, Clinical Systems, and Transformation Teams
- ICS Digital Programme Leads and Regional Partners
- Faculty of Clinical Informatics, national informatics bodies and national CCIO/CIO networks
- Service Users, Carers, and Co-production Groups
Key Responsibilities - Clinical Role and General
Specific clinical responsibilities will be agreed in consultation with the relevant Clinical Director, based on the postholders professional discipline, specialty, and substantive role.
Medical practitioners will be expected to practise in accordance with the General Medical Councils Good Medical Practice. Practitioners from other professional backgrounds will adhere to the equivalent standards set by their respective regulatory bodies.
Generic responsibilities relevant to all clinicians include:
Quality and Patient Safety
- Provide and champion safe, evidence-based, and person-centred care in all areas of responsibility
- Promote safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults
- Implement NICE and other statutory guidance where relevant
- Ensure infection prevention and control standards are met
- Contribute to the Trusts quality, governance, and risk management processes
- Report incidents and support organisational learning
- Contribute to Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF) responses
- Adhere to information governance, confidentiality, and data protection policies
- Maintain awareness of relevant legislation, standards, and best practice
- Maintain awareness of the collective responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy environment for patients/carers visitors, and staff, in line with health and safety regulations and organisational policies.
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration: Current UK registration with a recognised clinical professional body (eg. GMC, NMC, HCPC) with license to practice.
- For medical practitioners - Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in a relevant medical specialty or within 6 months of expected CCT date oMembership/Fellowship of Relevant Royal College e.g. MRCPsych, MRCP(UK) depending on specialty, or equivalent qualification if trained outside the UK
- For non-medical clinicians - Master's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant clinical or professional field (e.g. psychology, pharmacy, physiotherapy)
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical informatics/health informatics, data science or a related analytical discipline, digital health, leadership, or quality improvement
- Fellowship or membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. Faculty of Clinical Informatics, British Computer Society, FMLM)
- Completion of a recognised digital leadership programme (e.g. NHS Digital Academy)
Experience
Essential
- Senior clinician with experience of leading teams and working effectively across a range of clinical settings within a MDT
- Experience of using information and analytics to drive service improvement
- Experience leading or supporting digital transformation initiatives
- Experience contributing to or leading quality improvement, clinical risk management, or patient safety incident responses.
- Ability to support the use of digital tools and data to improve clinical safety, reduce harm, and promote continuous learning.
Desirable
- Involvement with national digital health bodies & projects (eg FCI, NHS England, NHSD)
- Senior clinical leadership role in NHS or equivalent setting
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of digital health, EPRs, and clinical systems
- Knowledge, skills and experience that relate to the FCI Competency Framework
- Understanding of national digital policy (eg What Good Looks Like, DCMH, DFOCVC)
- Demonstrates a sound understanding of clinical safety and digital governance frameworks
- Knowledge of DCB0129 and 0160 requirements
- Knowledge and understanding of the strategic and operational context of the NHS, including current national priorities, policy drivers, and the role of integrated care systems (ICS)
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- Professional Registration: Current UK registration with a recognised clinical professional body (eg. GMC, NMC, HCPC) with license to practice.
- For medical practitioners - Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in a relevant medical specialty or within 6 months of expected CCT date oMembership/Fellowship of Relevant Royal College e.g. MRCPsych, MRCP(UK) depending on specialty, or equivalent qualification if trained outside the UK
- For non-medical clinicians - Master's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant clinical or professional field (e.g. psychology, pharmacy, physiotherapy)
Desirable
- Postgraduate qualification in clinical informatics/health informatics, data science or a related analytical discipline, digital health, leadership, or quality improvement
- Fellowship or membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. Faculty of Clinical Informatics, British Computer Society, FMLM)
- Completion of a recognised digital leadership programme (e.g. NHS Digital Academy)
Experience
Essential
- Senior clinician with experience of leading teams and working effectively across a range of clinical settings within a MDT
- Experience of using information and analytics to drive service improvement
- Experience leading or supporting digital transformation initiatives
- Experience contributing to or leading quality improvement, clinical risk management, or patient safety incident responses.
- Ability to support the use of digital tools and data to improve clinical safety, reduce harm, and promote continuous learning.
Desirable
- Involvement with national digital health bodies & projects (eg FCI, NHS England, NHSD)
- Senior clinical leadership role in NHS or equivalent setting
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Knowledge of digital health, EPRs, and clinical systems
- Knowledge, skills and experience that relate to the FCI Competency Framework
- Understanding of national digital policy (eg What Good Looks Like, DCMH, DFOCVC)
- Demonstrates a sound understanding of clinical safety and digital governance frameworks
- Knowledge of DCB0129 and 0160 requirements
- Knowledge and understanding of the strategic and operational context of the NHS, including current national priorities, policy drivers, and the role of integrated care systems (ICS)
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
