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Job requirements
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Essential
13 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Excellent communication and strategic planning
- Skills
Advanced analytical and judgement skills
- Skills
Ability to manage senior teams and complex change
- Knowledge and Experience
10+ years in digital leadership within healthcare or public sector
- Knowledge and Experience
Proven track record delivering large-scale digital transformation
- Knowledge and Experience
Deep understanding of UK GDPR, NHS cyber frameworks
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience with AI, robotics, or blockchain in health
- Knowledge and Experience
Stakeholder management across NHS England, ICS, and tech partners
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in public-private health tech partnerships
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and behaviours
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Passionate and committed to bring our values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
- Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
All staff are expected to engage in compassionate and inclusive leadership in the provision of high-quality care and interactions with others
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience influencing national digital policy
- Educations, Training and Qualifications
Postgraduate degree in Digital Health, IT, Business or Innovation Management
- Educations, Training and Qualifications
PhD or MBA with focus on healthcare innovation
Job overview
The Chief Technology and Product Officer (CTPO) plays a pivotal leadership role in shaping and delivering digital transformation ambitions. Reporting to the Chief Digital Information Officer, the CTPO leads innovation, technology adoption, and the development of digital infrastructure that supports clinical and operational excellence.
The CTPO plays a central role in delivering the One Digital Strategy. This includes embedding digital into all transformation efforts, accelerating the adoption of safe and effective emerging technologies, and creating a unified, user-focused digital culture across UHL .
Main duties of the job
This role requires a combination of strategic acumen, political awareness, system leadership, and partnership influence.
Budget: Responsible for multi-million-pound digital and innovation budgets (> £10 million), ensuring strategic return on investment, value for money, and funding from grants and partnerships.
Staff: Leads a diverse senior digital workforce across disciplines. Accountable for their development, training, appraisal, wellbeing and performance.
Policy: Shapes and influences Trust-wide digital policy, aligning with regional and national strategies, including the NHS Long Term Plan, the 10-Year Health and Care Plan, and other enabling digital and innovation frameworks.
Communication: Leads effective communication and stakeholder engagement across clinical, operational, digital, academic, and industry partners locally, regionally, and nationally.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Innovation
- Set the Trust’s digital innovation agenda and deliver the digital innovation strategy, aligned with NHS Long Term Plan, 10-Year Health and Care Plan, and enabling frameworks.
- Act as strategic advisor to Boards and Executives on innovation, technology investment, and digital capability.
- Influence national digital and innovation policy through engagement with NHS and government bodies.
- Represent the trust regionally and nationally to shape and contribute to wider system innovation agendas.
- Expand and mature strategic partnerships with health tech, academia, and industry to position the Trust as a national leader in safe, responsible innovation.
- Identify and deliver opportunities for digital commercialisation and innovation income generation, ensuring ethical compliance and reinvestment into services
Digital Infrastructure, Systems and Governance
- Lead the modernisation of core digital foundations, ensuring network resilience, rapid device turnaround, and responsive support to meet operational needs.
- Define and oversee enterprise architecture, technical design principles, and digital standards to ensure coherence and scalability across the Trust's digital estate.
- Drive consolidation of legacy systems and standardisation of infrastructure to create intuitive, seamless digital experiences across the Trust.
- Champion secure, cloud-based, interoperable and AI-ready digital platforms.
- Ensure cyber resilience, business continuity, and compliance with UK GDPR and NHS standards.
- Lead strategic oversight of digital risk, governance frameworks, and clinical safety in digital systems.
Transformation Delivery and Innovation Enablement
- Oversee delivery of complex digital transformation programmes across the Trust.
- Support delivery of EPR and frontline digitisation programmes, ensuring readiness for AI and analytics.
- Enable scaling of innovation in care delivery and corporate services, including automation.
- Align transformation work with regional and national innovation programmes.
People, Culture and Leadership
- Develop and lead a high-performing senior digital and innovation workforce.
- Champion a culture of continuous learning, digital confidence, and inclusion.
- Act as a mentor and system leader in developing digital talent across the NHS.
Financial and Commercial
- Manage significant digital investment and innovation portfolios.
- Shape business cases and lead funding strategies from public and private sources.
- Lead strategic procurement for innovation and technology services.
Research and Data Collaboration
- Collaborate with the Chief Data Officer to ensure high-quality data is generated through digital platforms.
- Enable safe, ethical and interoperable data use to support research, innovation and care improvement.
- Contribute to Trust partnerships such as the Federated Data Platform and AI Lab initiatives.
Please see job description/person specification for further details on the role.
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This advert is for Chief Technology and Product Officer (GCTPO) with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust in Leicester, England. It is listed as a Officer (discipline unspecified) role. The advertised salary is £110,000 - £130,000 per annum. The contract type is Fixed term: 12 months (None). The application deadline is 07 Sep 2026.
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