# Chief Transformation and Digital Officer

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust HQ
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Officer (discipline unspecified)
- **Salary:** VSM
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-15T23:59:59.999Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-23T11:30:37.705Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Devon/Exeter/South_Western_Ambulance_Service_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Ambulance_Services/Ambulance_Services-v8390467
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8390467?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.swast.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Are you a strategic leader with a track record of coordinating transformation, improving performance and delivering organisational change at scale?

We are seeking an exceptional Chief Transformation and Digital Officer to join our Executive Team. This pivotal role will shape the future direction of the Trust, bringing together transformation, strategy, performance, data and analytics, digital and AI enablement into a single high-impact function.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive, you will oversee major transformation programmes, champion evidence-based decision making, and help create a culture of accountability, continuous improvement and innovation. You will ensure the Trust has a clear strategy and strong delivery oversight alongside ensuring an effective digital architecture to deliver the service to patients.

The successful candidate will bring significant senior leadership experience within a complex NHS, public sector or highly regulated environment, with a proven ability to deliver large-scale change, robust and resilience digital services, improve organisational performance and influence at Board level.

This is an outstanding opportunity to play a key role in shaping the future of ambulance services across the South West, improving outcomes for patients, colleagues and the communities we serve.

### Main duties of the job

We're looking for an inspiring and values-driven leader who lives our values of Compassion, One Team and Innovation. If you lead with empathy, bring people together to achieve shared goals, and have the ambition to challenge the status quo and drive meaningful improvement, we'd love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to shape the future of our organisation while making a real difference for patients, colleagues and communities across the South West.

For an informal discussion, please contact Julie Smalley, Business Manager to the Chief Executive at Julie.smalley@swast.nhs.uk

Assessments for shortlisted candidates will take place on 2nd December.

We encourage candidates to read the full Candidate Pack attached for more information.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please see the attached job description and person specification.

### Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Education and qualifications

**Essential**

- Relevant masters degree or equivalent experience

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10720496)
- [swast code of conduct (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2579)
- [candidate information pack (pdf, 16.2mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10720495)

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