Job summary
- Main area
- Digital, Data and Technology
- Grade
- Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will have to take part on a On Call rota.)
- Job ref
- 396-NN-7218476-A&C-Y
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kingston
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £93,903 - £107,412 pa pr incl HCAS (outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Technology Officer
Band 8d
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is responsible for the development, implementation, and management of a comprehensive Digital Technology architecture and solutions across technology and data, and in areas such as enterprise architecture, innovation management, and data integrity whilst supporting wider innovation efforts throughout the Trust and across its partners. This will include planning, scheduling, reporting, risk management, benefits realisation, assurance, budget management and quality standards.
The postholder will maintains currency on new technologies, approaches, and platforms. Provide direction on what emerging technologies should be assimilated, integrated, and introduced within the enterprise to ensure digital and data capabilities respond to the needs of the Trusts strategy and regional obligations Management of the CTO department that is responsible for on premise and cloud-based compute and storage, networks, integrations and data storage and any associated development. The team will be a knowledgeable, available and responsive set of digital technology professionals that will support service delivery and new initiatives by working in conjunction with Digital Operations and Digital Transformation teams. Management of the technical and solutions engineers who are tasked to ensure the designed and agreed technical and solutions services are available, resilient, secure and meet relevant SLAs, OLAs and KPI’s.
Main duties of the job
Solutions Leadership for Digital, Data and Technology
1. Provide digital solutions leadership to the DDAT Department and expert advice on healthcare digital solutions to the Trust.
2. Assist in the development and execution of a DDAT strategy, impacting on the whole organisation, to ensure the Trust has the right systems available to deliver effective patient care.
3. Recognise and ensure national digital priorities and initiatives are reflected in local priorities and plans for service development.
4. Present to senior groups as required to ensure DDAT issues maintain a high profile, including the presentation of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information when significant barriers to acceptance exist, potentially challenging environments.
5. Promote the value and importance of effective DDAT throughout the Trust.
6. Provide professional leadership for the wider digital community within the Trust and for all aspects of digital technology throughout the organisation.
7. Provide expert advice and guidance to managers, health professionals and others on technology-related issues.
8. Act as the Senior Responsible Officer for the technical aspects of digital transformation and development projects that will support the DDaT Board.
Working for our organisation
Development and staff wellbeing
Your growth and personal happiness matters to us. After all, we can’t expect the best from you if we don’t invest in your development and nurture your wellbeing. From the moment you join us, we’re committed to fostering your professional and personal development within a supportive, empowering environment. Whether you’re just starting your career or looking to advance further, we provide you with the tools and opportunities you need to succeed. We actively support colleagues to take part in research, quality improvement and innovation, whatever their role or level in the organisation.
To support your wellbeing, we offer an extensive range of resources, including an on-site staff nursery at Kingston Hospital, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, dedicated staff physiotherapist, comprehensive occupational health services, 24/7 employee assistance programme, and a range of other support and activities.
We also take every opportunity to thank and recognise the work our teams do, through weekly ‘shoutouts’ and patient feedback, monthly and annual awards.
Wherever you work across our organisation, we look forward to welcoming you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters or relevant industry experience
- Professional certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Microsoft Azure, Cisco, VMware VDI, Dell vSAN, Citrix, Win Server, SQL Server, TOGAF)
- Knowledge of common information security and technology management frameworks, such as ISO/IEC 27000/27001, ITIL, TOGAF, NHSE DMA, HIMMS, COBIT, National Cyber Security Centre as well as those from the Data Security and Protection Toolkit (DSPT).
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience (7+ years) in IT infrastructure leadership in a complex, multi-site organisation.
- Strategic leader and builder of both vision and bridges, and able to energize the appropriate teams in the organisation including leading and managing teams through change.
- Proven track record and experience in developing technical policies and procedures, as well as successfully executing programs that meet the objectives of excellence in a dynamic business environment
- Acknowledged programme and project management experience, including Prince2, gained across the entire project/system lifecycle from initial business case to post-implementation business review
- Experience of technical architecture strategy development and liaison at Board-level
- Experience in the presentation of financial cases for DDaT Investment
Skills / Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent analytical skills, the ability to manage multiple projects under strict timelines, as well as the ability to work well in a demanding, dynamic environment and meet overall objectives.
- Ability to lead and motivate the technology teams to achieve tactical and strategic goals, even when only "dotted line" reporting lines exist
- Strong stakeholder management ability and excellent relationship management, influencing and negotiating skills. Adept at managing competing expectations
- Shows sensitivity and awareness of the social, environmental and corporate impact of IT. Inspires others to follow the same high standards
- Commercial awareness and ability to negotiate
- Skilled practitioners systems analysis, Prince project management, programme management and ITIL service management
Your application: Please ensure your supporting statement aligns with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
References: Please provide 3 years of employment/educational history with professional email addresses (not personal ones like Hotmail or Gmail). If you cannot supply these, inform the interviewers to avoid delays in pre-employment checks.
Closing date: To keep our recruitment process efficient, some vacancies may be capped and closed early once we receive a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting: You will only be contacted by email or SMS from the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted. Please check your registered Trac email regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults at risk of harm. For roles involving direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All employees, however, hold a responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable adults as part of their duties and to understand the specific safeguarding responsibilities associated with their role.
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Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anthony Lundrigan
- Job title
- Chief Digital Information Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920577319
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