# Chief Clinical Information Officer (Nursing and AHP) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-clinical-information-officer-nursing-and-ahp/68a22db4-2ed7-4312-8c56-cf36fb9d5f5b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-clinical-information-officer-nursing-and-ahp/68a22db4-2ed7-4312-8c56-cf36fb9d5f5b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Christie NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Manchester - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 Pro Rata Per Annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-20T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-06-29T10:51:59.645Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8117089 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8117089?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.christie.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The ambition of the Christie for excellence must be met by our leaders with the same ambition. Now more than ever, our technology will serve to push forward excellence in ways we have not experienced previously. Clinical leadership in the digital domain for healthcare and research is a rapidly evolving field that presents opportunity, all of which needs to be guided as part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team. The Chief Clinical Information Officer provides strategic leadership at the interface of clinical practice and digital transformation, ensuring that digital systems support safe, effective, and high-quality patient care. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will lead the clinical design, implementation, optimisation, and evaluation of digital systems, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, national policy, and patient safety standards. This is a highly visible senior leadership role, positioned within the Digital Services senior team and the nursing leadership structure. The post holder will provide strategic oversight of a clinical digital transformation team, including digital nurses, and work collaboratively across clinical, operational, and digital teams to ensure that systems and services are safe, high quality, and fit for purpose, ultimately supporting improved patient outcomes and clinical practice. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities ### Strategic Leadership To be a highly visible leader, ensuring that The Christie values and behaviours are met, whilst ensuring that professional standards are maintained and opportunities for improvement are identified. Deliver strong professional leadership with the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, using a positive, strong influencing and coaching style to enable and empower staff to develop best practice in the delivery of high quality patient care. Provide senior clinical leadership for digital transformation programmes. Support delivery of the Trust’s Digital Strategy. Act as a clinical advocate for digital innovation and change. Responsible for the development and an inclusion of patients into the Digital strategy, and the inclusion of Digital in patient facing strategies. Act as an ambassador for Digital Services by developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with users across the organisation to deliver a high quality, customer first culture. Establish links with external agencies that will ensure the continued development of new ways of working and collaboration on key tasks within the health economy. Undertake analysis of the digital clinical landscape, at a national, regional, and local level. Apply this analysis to the development of services at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. The analysis will be complex and made up of several components. These components may be conflicting, and expert opinion often differs. The post holder will understand which components, and what opinion is relevant to The Christie to achieve best outcomes. ### Digital transformation, strategy and policy Responsible for developing the transformation service for the Trust, ensuring the service delivers value. Work closely with the Trust to make sure the services we provide meet the needs of the organisation, and to spot any opportunities to develop new services. Oversee implementation of new digital solutions, including testing and evaluation. Responsible for ensuring digital tools are clinically relevant, safe, and user-centered. Responsible for developing high customer satisfaction and developing a professional facing digital service. Be responsible for developing and/or implementing policies for own work area and for proposing changes to policies, in line with legislation, Trust and NHS policies and guidelines across the Trust. Advise the Chief Nurse on implications of national and local system wide policy/ strategy development from a clinical digital perspective through completion of Trust Board level reports and presentations at meetings. Support the development of dashboards, reporting tools and outcome measures. Establish KPIs, working alongside all departments, Trust wide to progress and improve through service reviews and wider engagement sessions. ### Clinical Safety and Governance In partnership with the Medical Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) take accountability for aspects of technical solutions to support patient safety and quality across all Divisions. Guide EPR and health IT systems design and implementation, evaluation and options from the nursing practice perspective. Responsible and accountable for the advancement of technically enabled solutions to support nursing practice. Promote safe documentation, decision support, and risk management. Proactively manage key digital clinical risks and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond to risks. Support incident reviews where digital systems are a factor. Ensure that all technical solutions meet regulatory requirements and clinical safety standards (e.g. ISB 0129 Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems and ISB 0160 Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems). Lead on audit, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of digital practice. Ensure there is a proactive and comprehensive approach to risk management and be responsible for service continuity for own area and participate in the Digital service continuity planning. Serve as an expert to communicate nursing and health care trends and issues at the local, regional and/or national level. Educate IT colleagues on healthcare operations and clinical processes to ensure that safe, patient-centric and user-friendly systems are designed. ### Education and Research Responsible for ensuring that the nursing/AHP workforce within Digital Services is adequately trained, skills are maintained whilst developing a culture that values continuing professional development. Provide mentorship/clinical supervision/coaching to colleagues (nursing/AHP) to enable their professional development. Support the development of training programmes and clinical documentation for digital systems. Ensure adequate support during implementation and optimisation of new digital solutions. Celebrate good practice and seek opportunities to endorse best practice through conferences, presentations and peer review. ### People Management Ensure the management of all staff in accordance with Christie policies, values and behaviours, including Maintaining High Professional Standards. Demonstrates the agreed set of values and accountable for own attitude and behaviour. Act as a role model for standards of behaviour and professionalism. Provide appropriate line management and ensure all nursing and AHP staff across digital services undertake an annual PDR with set objectives and complete the required mandatory and statutory training programmes. Ensure all nurses/AHPs within digital services meet revalidations requirements and work within their scope of practice. Lead on and manage professional conduct and capability issues, with support from HR colleagues as well as statutory requirements, related to nursing/AHP staff. Provide professional and managerial support to senior nurses/AHPs within digital services in regard to disciplinary matters. Ensure that the service adopts flexible working practices that meet the Working Time Directive and achieve a fair balance between the preferences of individual members of staff, the needs of the service, and the preferences of the whole staff group. Ensure that there are effective systems and processes in place for the management of absence and annual leave. ### Financial Management Ensure effective financial management of the service budget and delivery of efficiency improvement aligned to the Value Improvement Plan. Advise on the quality and safety impact of cost improvement initiatives. Responsible for ensuring nursing and AHP staff across Digital Services understand the need for rigorous budgetary control and are equipped with the relevant skills to manage budgets effectively. Perform highly detailed and complex option appraisals in order to inform decision making process, to include redesign of services, capital projects. Lead Trust-wide business appraisals and business case production when required in partnership with Trust stake holders. Ensure Trust procurement processes and procedures are followed in a timely and efficient manner and participate in the procurement process where relevant, providing assistance for the development and assessment of procurement documentation as required. Ensure Trust Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) and procurement guidelines are followed and adhered to. ## Job Details The ambition of the Christie for excellence must be met by our leaders with the same ambition. Now more than ever, our technology will serve to push forward excellence in ways we have not experienced previously. Clinical leadership in the digital domain for healthcare and research is a rapidly evolving field that presents opportunity, all of which needs to be guided as part of a dedicated multidisciplinary team. The Chief Clinical Information Officer provides strategic leadership at the interface of clinical practice and digital transformation, ensuring that digital systems support safe, effective, and high-quality patient care. ## Job Description The post holder will lead the clinical design, implementation, optimisation, and evaluation of digital systems, ensuring alignment with organisational priorities, national policy, and patient safety standards. This is a highly visible senior leadership role, positioned within the Digital Services senior team and the nursing leadership structure. The post holder will provide strategic oversight of a clinical digital transformation team, including digital nurses, and work collaboratively across clinical, operational, and digital teams to ensure that systems and services are safe, high quality, and fit for purpose, ultimately supporting improved patient outcomes and clinical practice. ## Responsibilities To be a highly visible leader, ensuring that The Christie values and behaviours are met, whilst ensuring that professional standards are maintained and opportunities for improvement are identified. Deliver strong professional leadership with the highest level of interpersonal and communication skills, using a positive, strong influencing and coaching style to enable and empower staff to develop best practice in the delivery of high quality patient care. Provide senior clinical leadership for digital transformation programmes. Support delivery of the Trust’s Digital Strategy. Act as a clinical advocate for digital innovation and change. Responsible for the development and an inclusion of patients into the Digital strategy, and the inclusion of Digital in patient facing strategies. Act as an ambassador for Digital Services by developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with users across the organisation to deliver a high quality, customer first culture. Establish links with external agencies that will ensure the continued development of new ways of working and collaboration on key tasks within the health economy. Undertake analysis of the digital clinical landscape, at a national, regional, and local level. Apply this analysis to the development of services at The Christie NHS Foundation Trust. The analysis will be complex and made up of several components. These components may be conflicting, and expert opinion often differs. The post holder will understand which components, and what opinion is relevant to The Christie to achieve best outcomes. Responsible for developing the transformation service for the Trust, ensuring the service delivers value. Work closely with the Trust to make sure the services we provide meet the needs of the organisation, and to spot any opportunities to develop new services. Oversee implementation of new digital solutions, including testing and evaluation. Responsible for ensuring digital tools are clinically relevant, safe, and user-centered. Responsible for developing high customer satisfaction and developing a professional facing digital service. Be responsible for developing and/or implementing policies for own work area and for proposing changes to policies, in line with legislation, Trust and NHS policies and guidelines across the Trust. Advise the Chief Nurse on implications of national and local system wide policy/ strategy development from a clinical digital perspective through completion of Trust Board level reports and presentations at meetings. Support the development of dashboards, reporting tools and outcome measures. Establish KPIs, working alongside all departments, Trust wide to progress and improve through service reviews and wider engagement sessions. In partnership with the Medical Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) take accountability for aspects of technical solutions to support patient safety and quality across all Divisions. Guide EPR and health IT systems design and implementation, evaluation and options from the nursing practice perspective. Responsible and accountable for the advancement of technically enabled solutions to support nursing practice. Promote safe documentation, decision support, and risk management. Proactively manage key digital clinical risks and ensure that appropriate actions are taken to mitigate or respond to risks. Support incident reviews where digital systems are a factor. Ensure that all technical solutions meet regulatory requirements and clinical safety standards (e.g. ISB 0129 Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Manufacture of Health IT Systems and ISB 0160 Clinical Risk Management: its Application in the Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems). Lead on audit, quality assurance, and continuous improvement of digital practice. Ensure there is a proactive and comprehensive approach to risk management and be responsible for service continuity for own area and participate in the Digital service continuity planning. Serve as an expert to communicate nursing and health care trends and issues at the local, regional and/or national level. Educate IT colleagues on healthcare operations and clinical processes to ensure that safe, patient-centric and user-friendly systems are designed. Responsible for ensuring that the nursing/AHP workforce within Digital Services is adequately trained, skills are maintained whilst developing a culture that values continuing professional development. Provide mentorship/clinical supervision/coaching to colleagues (nursing/AHP) to enable their professional development. Support the development of training programmes and clinical documentation for digital systems. Ensure adequate support during implementation and optimisation of new digital solutions. Celebrate good practice and seek opportunities to endorse best practice through conferences, presentations and peer review. Ensure the management of all staff in accordance with Christie policies, values and behaviours, including Maintaining High Professional Standards. Demonstrates the agreed set of values and accountable for own attitude and behaviour. Act as a role model for standards of behaviour and professionalism. Provide appropriate line management and ensure all nursing and AHP staff across digital services undertake an annual PDR with set objectives and complete the required mandatory and statutory training programmes. Ensure all nurses/AHPs within digital services meet revalidations requirements and work within their scope of practice. Lead on and manage professional conduct and capability issues, with support from HR colleagues as well as statutory requirements, related to nursing/AHP staff. Provide professional and managerial support to senior nurses/AHPs within digital services in regard to disciplinary matters. Ensure that the service adopts flexible working practices that meet the Working Time Directive and achieve a fair balance between the preferences of individual members of staff, the needs of the service, and the preferences of the whole staff group. Ensure that there are effective systems and processes in place for the management of absence and annual leave. Ensure effective financial management of the service budget and delivery of efficiency improvement aligned to the Value Improvement Plan. Advise on the quality and safety impact of cost improvement initiatives. Responsible for ensuring nursing and AHP staff across Digital Services understand the need for rigorous budgetary control and are equipped with the relevant skills to manage budgets effectively. Perform highly detailed and complex option appraisals in order to inform decision making process, to include redesign of services, capital projects. Lead Trust-wide business appraisals and business case production when required in partnership with Trust stake holders. Ensure Trust procurement processes and procedures are followed in a timely and efficient manner and participate in the procurement process where relevant, providing assistance for the development and assessment of procurement documentation as required. Ensure Trust Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs) and procurement guidelines are followed and adhered to. ## Person Specification ### Other **Essential** - Requirement for occasional travel to external meetings and events - Ability to work out-of-hours, weekend and public holidays if required by exception ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent communication skills including the ability to articulate clinical issues to technical colleagues and conversely technical aspects to non-technical colleague - Advanced interpersonal skills, able to influence and negotiate with colleagues on all levels(internally and externally), including senior and frontline clinical staff - Highly developed programme and project management skills - Evidence of managing conflict and deploying successful conflict resolution strategies - Ability to deliver complex presentations to a multi-professional audience - Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills - Demonstrates high degree of autonomy and complex decision making - Works across boundaries, looks for collective success, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others - Demonstratable IT skills in being able to find, manage, store and share digital information, data and content. Competent in Microsoft Office programmes ### Values **Essential** - Demonstrates flexibility in working hours - Able to work under pressure and to tight deadlines, to cope with demanding and unpredictable work pattern - Enthusiasm and inspirational skills - Commitment to equality, diversity and human rights - Appreciation of and astuteness in political issues - Highly developed interpersonal skills - Team leader/player ### Knowledge **Essential** - An understanding of the Digital Strategy of the NHS and its implications - Demonstrates breadth and depth of understanding of current NHS landscape and policy and ability to interpret and implement in clinical practice ### Experience **Essential** - Demonstrable experience of Senior Management within the healthcare setting - Demonstrable experience of leading and managing trust wide projects at a senior/strategic level - Experience of leading a team and delivering excellence through others - Proven achievement in developing policy and service objectives, establishing and implementing innovative solutions - Ability to ensure a balance between empowering others to act and holding to account in order to achieve agreed targets and objectives - Experience of developing and implementing quality assurance processes and systems - Experience in leading service development, and the implementation / management of change - Experience of policy development and implementation - Significant experience and understanding of the value that digital technology and information brings to improving quality of care, outcomes, and efficiency - Experience of ensuring that patients, staff and the public are engaged as an integral part of transformation programmes and that safety and experience are considered at every stage - Experience of creating diverse and inclusive teams that are motivated and inspired to work together to achieve a common objective **Desirable** - Experience in management position at directorate level and above ### Qualifications **Essential** - Registered as a clinical professional with the, NMC, HCPC, or equivalent professional registration body - Educated to Master’s level or equivalent training and experience - Digital Clinical Safety Officer training or demonstrable equivalent **Desirable** - Doctoral qualification - Post graduate qualification in leadership and/or management - Digital Academy Programme Graduate - Member of a national Digital Health Advisory Panel ## Documents - [strategy brochure (pdf, 1.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1645) - [travel to the christie (pdf, 3.8mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1960) - [the christie values and behaviours (pdf, 919.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1643) - [job description & person specification (pdf, 269.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10412828) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.