# Chief Technology and Product Officer (GCTPO) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-technology-and-product-officer-gctpo/e89f8a69-9b10-4a63-9745-17e118795e9c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-technology-and-product-officer-gctpo/e89f8a69-9b10-4a63-9745-17e118795e9c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Archived / closed - **Employer:** University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust - **Location:** Leicester Royal Infirmary - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Officer (discipline unspecified) - **Salary:** £110,000 - £130,000 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (None) - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-07T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-25T08:30:42.960Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Leicestershire/Leicester/University_Hospitals_Leicester_NHS_Trust/Digital_Data/Digital_Data-v8250984 - **Employer website:** https://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Excellent communication and strategic planning - Advanced analytical and judgement skills - Ability to manage senior teams and complex change ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - 10+ years in digital leadership within healthcare or public sector - Proven track record delivering large-scale digital transformation - Deep understanding of UK GDPR, NHS cyber frameworks - Experience with AI, robotics, or blockchain in health - Stakeholder management across NHS England, ICS, and tech partners - Experience in public-private health tech partnerships **Desirable** - Experience influencing national digital policy ### Educations, Training and Qualifications **Desirable** - Postgraduate degree in Digital Health, IT, Business or Innovation Management - PhD or MBA with focus on healthcare innovation ### Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes **Essential** - Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and behaviours - 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 - Able to demonstrate a commitment to and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs. - All staff are expected to engage in compassionate and inclusive leadership in the provision of high-quality care and interactions with others ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 184.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10563634) - [employee benefits (pdf, 578.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2350) - [person specification (pdf, 184.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10563635) - [understanding your right to work in the uk (pdf, 1.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2349) ## 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.