Job summary
- Main area
- Digital
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 251-CORP2527-CNIO
- Employer
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Basingstoke
- Town
- Basingstoke
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Nursing Information Officer
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Job overview
As our Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO), you’ll be at the heart of shaping how digital innovation transforms care for our patients, our staff and our communities.
Working alongside the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) and senior digital leaders, you will provide clinical insight and digital leadership to ensure nurses, midwives and AHPs are fully involved in designing, developing and evaluating our digital systems. Your focus will be on making sure every digital solution we introduce genuinely enhances safety, quality and patient outcomes, while helping to build a strong and positive digital culture across the organisation.
Main duties of the job
We’re looking for a senior clinician with a passion for digital transformation and a genuine interest in how technology can improve care. You don’t need to be an informatics expert — what matters most is your enthusiasm for innovation, your ability to inspire and influence others, and your commitment to shaping safer, smarter and more effective ways of working.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Your Next Career Move Made Easier – Accommodation May Be Offered
We understand relocating can be a big step. Hampshire Hospitals may be able to provide accommodation options for successful candidates, depending on availability. If this something you would like to explore please contact Southern Housing on 02080 360017
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Work alongside the CCIO to drive the strategic direction for Informatics through the implementation and delivery of clinical systems across the trust and the wider healthcare community.
Provide high quality clinical guidance for Digital and leadership across the organisation in collaboration with other stakeholders.
Act as champion for Digital within the Nursing and Allied Health Professional communities as an enabler for safe and effective patient care.
Promote innovation and champion the development of an information culture that drives continuous clinical and business improvement across the organisation.
Provide clinical overview and expertise to the design and development of informatics enabled change programmes and development strategies, plans and activity to ensure they deliver safe, effective, evidence-based and accessible services and systems to meet the health and care knowledge and information needs of Nurses and other clinicians.
Ensure that all key stakeholders are consulted in the design, delivery and evaluation of clinical informatics systems, including patients, carers, clinicians, technical and programme teams and best practice groups.
Ensure that proposed service redesigns will be effective in improving clinical practice and patient care outcomes, whilst adhering to professional and IT standards.
Monitor regional, national and international development of Digital and informatics standards and apply best practice within the organisation.
Determine and advise on implications of national and local informatics policy/strategy development from a clinical perspective.
Ensure that structures are in place to monitor effective and valid information flows within health care systems which are necessary for the delivery of clinical care.
Strive to enhance others contributions and to promote leadership, nurturing capability and continuing professional development.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Fully Qualified Registered Nurse.
- Educated to Masters or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Relevant IM&T or Project Management Qualification
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience in clinical practice as a nurse, currently operating at Clinical Matron level
- Experience of managing and leading people and projects from creation to implementation
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting with demonstrated success in overcoming resistance to a change in clinical working practice
Desirable criteria
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders within an outside the organisation and in a multi-professional environment.
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
- High level influencing skills; able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes
- Resilient; able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
- Excellent Communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Attained national Clinical Safety Training for clinicians
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Victoria Turner
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Information Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07881 833632
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