Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Chief Digital and Information Officer

The closing date is 22 December 2025

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking an exceptional leader to join our executive team as Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO). This critical role will lead the Trusts digital transformation, ensuring our ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare is fully enabled by innovative digital solutions and services.

As CDIO, you will set the strategic direction and oversee the development and delivery of all digital services, including IT, Information, Information Governance, Health Records, and Data Quality. You will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders across the Trust, The Foundation Group of Hospitals, and the Integrated Care System (ICS) to create a robust digital infrastructure that supports population health, integrated care pathways, and multi-disciplinary clinical teams.

About You We are looking for a visionary leader with significant executive-level experience in digital leadership within complex organisations. You will bring expertise in large-scale digital transformation and Electronic Patient Record (EPR) implementation, alongside exceptional communication skills and the ability to operate as a key member of the Executive Team and Trust Board. Strong stakeholder engagement, partnership working, and political acumen are essential, as is a commitment to our values of kindness, respect, and openness.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities

Oversee development and delivery of the Trusts Digital Strategy and ensure alignment with national digital standards, statutory requirements, and ICS digital priorities.

Provide strategic vision that ensures digital capability underpins every aspect of our organisational mission, advancing digital maturity in the Trust

Lead operational and strategic Digital and information functions facilitating intelligence led decision making and data quality assurance.
Enable clinical strategy through digital innovation, improving patient safety, outcomes, and experience.
Manage digital programmes, contracts and budgets, identifying opportunities for external funding and maximising available resources.
Drive continuous improvement and a culture of innovation across the Trust.
Lead on cyber security, information governance, and disaster recovery.
Represent the Trust as a non-voting executive member of the Board and participate in the on call rota

What We Offer

The opportunity to shape the future of digital healthcare in Worcestershire.
A collaborative, innovative working environment.
Support for professional development and career progression.
Competitive VSM remuneration package.
A values-led culture where kindness, respect, and openness are central to everything we do.

To find out more or request a confidential conversation, contact: Lisa Wilkes vialisa.wilkes1@nhs.netor telephone 01905 760794

Closing date: 22nd December 2025

Interview date: 9th January 2026

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Date posted

10 December 2025

Pay scheme

Very senior manager (VSM)

Salary

Depending on experience

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

C9365-25-1083

Job locations

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

Digital health services are pivotal to the wide reaching transformation agenda at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Trust WAHT. Within five years, the Trust intends to be an outstanding provider of healthcare. Digital and IT services will provide the foundations to enable this to happen. This role will ensure that the vision, direction and clinical strategy for the Trust is fully enabled by digital processes, change and innovation. The post holder will work closely with all key stakeholders, and play an influential role with respect to developing the health economy digital agenda in partnership with NHS and care organisations across the Integrated Care System. Working in partnership with Integrated Care Boards and ICS Digital lead the CDO will be part of the Digital Health Leadership community driving forward the ICS digital programme to deliver a shared, aligned infrastructure that underpins wider population health capabilities, multi disciplinary clinical team working and digesting care pathways.

This executive portfolio will include all Digital services within the Trust, including strategic and operational IT, Information, Performance, and Business Intelligence, Information Governance, Health Records and Data Quality.

The post holder will be an executive, non-voting, member of the Board of Directors and report to the Chief Executive.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

The post holder will be an executive, non-voting, member of the Board of Directors and report to the Chief Executive.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Please provide a covering statement here, setting out how you meet the requirements of the role and the drivers for your application.
The Person Specification for this role can be found attached to this advert in the "Supporting Documents" section.

Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment

Essential

As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken, and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBTIA+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Assessment Centre Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this Scheme, and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Please provide a covering statement here, setting out how you meet the requirements of the role and the drivers for your application.
The Person Specification for this role can be found attached to this advert in the "Supporting Documents" section.

Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment

Essential

As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken, and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBTIA+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Assessment Centre Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this Scheme, and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

https://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)