Company: National Health Service
Location: St Ives
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you shape the digital future of community healthcare. You will lead the Digital Services portfolio, ensuring reliable, secure and patient-centered digital solutions. As a strategic, executive-level leader, you will translate vision into delivery, strengthen partnerships and drive transformation across clinical systems, cyber security and service delivery. You will influence senior stakeholders and foster a culture of innovation and collaboration. This is a chance to impact patient care at scale by modernising digital capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for digital services across the organisation
- Lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver resilient, secure digital services
- Advise on technology, architecture, cyber security and digital service performance
- Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies
- Develop partnerships with suppliers, healthcare organisations and technology partners
- Lead complex service transitions and digital change programmes
- Support the CIO in delivering the organisation’s digital vision and long-term strategy
Key requirements
- Extensive senior leadership experience in a complex digital/tech environment
- Proven ability to develop and deliver digital strategies for transformation
- Experience leading large multidisciplinary teams through change
- Strong commercial and supplier management skills
- Ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders
- Experience delivering innovation and transformational change
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills
- Credibility to operate at executive level
- Experience of cyber security and digital risk management
- Experience of managing substantial budgets and contracts
- Experience delivering digital services via internal and external partnerships
- Strategic thinking
- Inspirational leadership
- Political awareness
- Cyber security leadership
- Digital services delivery
- Programme and portfolio management
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Posted: September 30th, 2026