Job summary
- Main area
- Informatics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 389-26-8047133
- Employer
- Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bradford Royal Infirmary
- Town
- Bradford
- Salary
- £66,582 - £77,368 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Closing date: 14th June 2026
Shortlisting to take place: 15th June 2026
Interviews to commence: W/C 22nd June 2026
Due to the retirement of our existing CNIO, Bradford Teaching Hospitals are looking for an experienced and inspiring registered nurse, midwife or AHP to join our Digital, Data and Technology team as Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO).
This is an exciting leadership role for an individual who is passionate about improving patient care through digital innovation, clinical informatics and service transformation.
The CNIO will provide professional clinical nursing leadership across the design, development and implementation of digital systems, ensuring they support safe, effective and high-quality care. Working closely with nursing, clinical and digital leaders, the postholder will champion the voice of nursing, midwifery and Allied Health Professionals in digital transformation, helping to embed technology that improves clinical practice, patient outcomes and staff experience.
This role is ideal for a senior clinician with strong clinical credibility, leadership skills and a keen interest in informatics, innovation and change management.
Main duties of the job
As CNIO, you will play a key role in shaping how digital systems support nursing and midwifery practice across the Trust. Working closely with clinical, operational and digital teams, you will help design, implement and improve digital solutions that make a real difference to patient care, staff experience and service quality.
You will champion clinical informatics, support the successful adoption of electronic patient records and other digital tools, and ensure the voice of clinicians is at the heart of digital transformation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence change, lead innovation and help deliver safer, smarter and more effective care.
Working for our organisation
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
- We value people
- We are one team
- We care
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details as to the main responsibilities.
Person specification
Other
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (NMC), Midwife or AHP
Desirable criteria
- Registered with the UK Council for Health Informatics Professions (UK CHIP) at level 2
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse, Midwife or AHP
- Educated to Degree level
- Additional specialist knowledge or training to master’s level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing and recent personal and professional development
- Evidence of training in clinical safety and risk management
Desirable criteria
- Recognised leadership qualification or training programmes / frameworks
- Project or Programme Management qualification, such as PRINCE II, Managing Successful Programmes
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in the NHS or a similar large, complex environment
- Significant post registration experience
- Experience in supervising, leading and managing staff
- Extensive experience in clinical practice at a management or leadership level – with a track record of credibility
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting
- Project management experience
- Financial and budget management experience
- Experience of influencing stakeholders
- Ability to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
- Experience of working autonomously
- Demonstrates use of own judgement to resolve complex clinical issues.
- Proven track record of successful working with different staff groups to implement improvements in practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of successfully implementing clinical or service practice and organisational change
- Experience of management or significant contribution to complex, mission critical projects – clinical / IT / transformation
- Experience of delivering transformational leadership to effect change in teams
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders within the organisation and in a multi-professional environment
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate emotional intelligence and excellent leadership skills
- Excellent report writing and presentation skills
- Financial management skills and business acumen
- Ability to manage, motivate and empower a team of staff
- Excellent communication skills with a range of people from a variety of disciplines
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Innovative and creative
- Able to resolve conflict and overcome resistance
- Mentoring and counselling skills
- Demonstrable clinical skills and knowledge
- Excellent communication skills with a range of people from a variety of disciplines
- Excellent interpersonal and time management skills.
- Computer literate
- Able to manage own work load and work for periods without direct supervision and stamina and commitment to bring drive to new ideas and projects
- Proactive approach to problem solving
- Demonstrates leadership qualities, skills and values
- Ability to influence at a senior level, e.g. influence without direct line management authority- through highly tuned & credible leadership skills & track record
- Ability to communicate and deliver complex and conflicting information in a clear, concise manner.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to contribute ideas for service improvement and development.
- Ability to translate complex technical or business information for end users
- Able to use initiative and judgement in appropriate circumstances and to work autonomously
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- An in depth understanding of the statutory framework governing clinicians including emerging nursing revalidation
- Understanding (& experience) of how to improve clinical quality in acute patient settings
- A clear understanding of the national nursing and midwifery strategy, resultant work-streams and the standards to underpin and demonstrate best practice in nursing;
- understanding of national policy in relation to the national approaches to clinical quality, the Care Quality Commission activities and methodologies & the impact & expectation on front line services to deliver high quality safe care
- Proven ability to achieve targets and objectives within a pressured environment against challenging deadlines;
- A clear understanding of the national nursing and midwifery strategy, resultant work-streams and the standards to underpin and demonstrate best practice in nursing;
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
Desirable criteria
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies
- An understanding of the professional frameworks that support AHP roles
- Ability to interpret national and local policy drivers understanding the political environment;
- Knowledge of change management: experienced in managing change across teams/services in a multi-professional environment
- Knowledge of benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change
- Patient safety: Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- John Greenaway
- Job title
- Head of Clinical Information Systems
- Email address
- [email protected]
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