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.

Job overview

Chief Digital Information Officer

We are an integrated trust, providing care in people’s homes and across our local community. We help people to stay well in the community, manage their own health with the right support, and avoid unnecessary visits and admissions to hospital.

When people do need hospital care, our experienced professionals deliver an outstanding quality of acute care using advanced technology and evidence-based procedures to ensure the best outcomes.

We have a budget of around £500m and provide community care in the London borough of Richmond, we also work in partnership with Your Healthcare who provide community care in Kingston. We provide a full range of acute services at Kingston Hospital, and short-stay rehabilitation at Teddington Memorial Hospital.

We serve a wider population for a range of specialist services. This includes hospital and outpatient services for people in Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton, and a community immunisation for most of south London.

The foundation of our strategy is the integration of services, creating joined-up pathways that provide a better experience for patients, with multi-disciplinary teams working together across the patient journey.

Main duties of the job

As a newly formed organisation, we have tremendous opportunity for digital transformation and for a dynamic, ambitious CDIO to join the Trust. A key early task will be the development of a best-in-class digital strategy - a clear road map for the next 5 to 10 years that will help us realise the full potential of integrated ways of working and help us on our journey to modern and sustainable healthcare. This will include working across our health system in increasingly innovative ways and building ways of information sharing that support and enhance patient care and wellbeing across the populations we serve. Our CDIO will also work to transform the day-to-day experience of our staff by ensuring that we have a modern and sustainable digital infrastructure to enable all our people to be their best and building a truly ‘digitally competent’ workforce for the future.

We are looking for a strategic thinker who is passionate about the potential for digital solutions to unlock change, as well as someone who is pragmatic and grounded, and able to build a team and a function within our organisation that acts as a platform for innovation. As a member of the executive team, you will also play a part in setting the tone for the organisation, acting as a role model for a culture which is inclusive, respectful, and which values and celebrates our differences, enabling us to continually improve our place of work and the care we provide.

Working for our organisation

We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. The best boards are those that reflect the communities we serve and therefore applications from all backgrounds are welcomed. We want to increase the diversity of our boards and particularly encourage applications from women, people from the local Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBTQ+ communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are under-represented.