[ref. a16047504] Chief Digital and Information Officer

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

Job overview

North London NHS Foundation Trust is embarking on an ambitious transformation to redefine how mental health care is delivered across North Central London. As part of our Mental Health Provider Review, we are focused on delivering four key aims: reducing health inequalities, eliminating service variation, improving outcomes for service users, and creating a sustainable workforce.

As we align with the government’s forthcoming ten-year plan, which calls for a shift from hospital to community, analogue to digital, and sickness to prevention, we are recruiting a Chief Digital and Information Officer to drive our digital transformation agenda.

This is a pivotal Board-level role, reporting directly to the Chief Executive, with strategic responsibilities spanning the Trust. You will lead the Trust’s digital and information strategy, ensuring technology and data are leveraged to enhance patient care, improve performance, and create operational excellence across services.

Interviews will be scheduled for week commencing 2nd June 2025

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible to the Chief Executive for developing and delivering the Trust’s Digital and Information strategy. They will provide strategic support to the Chair, Chief Executive and the other Board members.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive digital transformation initiatives including data governance, digital infrastructure, and systems innovation
• Ensure robust information security and compliance with data protection standards
• Embed digital solutions that support a high-performing, efficient and responsive mental health service
• Work in close partnership with system leaders across North Central London to support a digitally enabled, neighbourhood-based NHS

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of strategic and digital innovation in the NHS, shaping how mental health services are delivered in North London for years to come. Please review the job description for more details on what the roles and responsibilities entail.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Graduate level education and/or professional qualification.
• Educated to master’s degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience

Skills

• Able to operate confidently within complex and ambiguous change environments.
• Strong commercial and business acumen and judgment, understanding the need for efficient services and well commissioned services.
• Experience in the execution of stakeholder engagement exercises, and a skilled influencer who is outcome focused

Experience

• Extensive experience in a highly complex environment at a Board or sub-Board level
• Significant experience of working with external stakeholders, including Regulators.
• Experience in developing and implementing information strategies and leading digital transformation initiatives.
• Strong understanding of healthcare data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR) and interoperability challenges.

• Experience of mental health and or community health and social care delivery.