Director of Clinical Informatics

The closing date is 21 December 2025

Band 9 (or 8 PAs) Digital Directorate Reports to: Chief Digital & Information Officer

Are you a visionary clinical leader passionate about digital transformation in healthcare? Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an outstanding Director of Clinical Informatics (CCIO) to drive the Trust's digital strategy and champion the safe, effective, and innovative use of digital solutions to improve patient care.

You'll be at the forefront of digital innovation, shaping the future of healthcare for clinicians and patients alike. You'll work alongside talented professionals, have a national profile, and make a real difference to patient outcomes and experience.

Main duties of the job

• Lead and manage digital delivery and development, ensuring clinical needs are at the heart of digital transformation.
• Provide expert clinical digital advice, chair working groups, and collaborate with stakeholders at local, regional, and national levels.
• Act as the Trust's digital safety officer, promoting a culture of innovation and clinical information excellence.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence, and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

In 2023 NHS England launched its first sexual safety charter, and our Trust proudly signed it. We pledge zero tolerance for inappropriate sexual behaviour and commit to the ten core principles.

Oxford University Hospitals promotes a safe, respectful hiring environment.

If you want to make a difference with us, come and join our team. Together, we will uphold the highest standards of care and professionalism.

Qualifications

• Professional registration
• Masters degree or degree level plus significant in-depth experience at a senior level and training equivalent to masters level
• Evidence of Continuing Practice Development

Knowledge

• Significant experience, knowledge, theory and practical delivery of major change and improvement programmes
• Significant involvement in the development of organisational strategy
• Highly developed leadership and influencing skills with the ability to enthuse, motivate and involve individuals and teams and have them understand the Trust's and your performance expectations.

Experience

• Expert leadership skills, innovation and able to challenge and improve processes and ways of working using a wide range of problem solving techniques
• Proven influencing, negotiating and mediation skills with different stakeholders - must be able to present credible and compelling arguments to senior clinicians, board members, senior managers, own department, peers and commissioners to develop effective relationships.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£109,725 to £145,478 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

321-CORP B9CON

Job locations

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust