# Director of Information Technology and Security > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/director-of-information-technology-and-security/d95328f1-430a-4aec-8468-42863928c069 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/director-of-information-technology-and-security/d95328f1-430a-4aec-8468-42863928c069.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Cambridge - **Region:** East of England - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 9 - **Salary:** £112,782 - £129,783 p.a. pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent: This role may attract Recruitment and Retention Premia depending on the experience and expertise of the candidate. - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered.) - **Closing date:** 2026-06-14T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-05-26T14:51:42.170Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/Cambridge_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Digital_Services/Digital_Services-v8036234 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8036234?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.cuh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) is a highly digitised healthcare organisation, having achieved the highest level of medical record adoption certification by the  HIMSS (EMRAM Level 7). We are committed to driving innovation and excellence in healthcare through our strategic plan. Reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, this is a new senior leadership role with Trust-wide influence. You will set the direction for technology infrastructure, cyber security, and digital platforms—ensuring our systems are robust, secure, and future-ready. There are many exciting programmes underway including potential expansion of our EPR across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, procurement of an IT managed service provider as our contract expires in 2028, and two new hospitals under construction. We are looking for an experienced technology leader who will bring: - Senior leadership experience in large, complex organisations - Deep expertise across infrastructure, cloud, cyber security, and enterprise architecture - A strong track record of delivering large-scale transformation and managing major contracts - The ability to translate strategy into delivery, influencing across organisational boundaries - Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical and non-technical audiences - Strong results in leading and managing highly performing teams This role is critical to ensuring that our technology enables safe and effective patient care—every hour of every day. ### Main duties of the job You will: - lead the development of a modern, resilient technology estate, spanning cloud, infrastructure, and core clinical systems - shape and deliver the Trust’s cyber security and system resilience strategy - drive innovation across AI, automation, and emerging technologies - oversee a complex, high-value outsourced IT managed service and supplier ecosystem - champion interoperability and integration to enable seamless patient care - establish strong governance, ensuring compliance with national standards and regulations This role may attract Recruitment and Retention Premia depending on the experience and expertise of the candidate. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities. Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment This vacancy will close at midnight on the 14th June 2026. Interviews are due to be held on the 22nd June 2026. Benefits to you At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff. On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH. CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times. Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered. We welcome applications from the Armed Forces. ## Job Details Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) is a highly digitised healthcare organisation, having achieved the highest level of medical record adoption certification by the HIMSS (EMRAM Level 7). We are committed to driving innovation and excellence in healthcare through our strategic plan. Reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer, this is a new senior leadership role with Trust-wide influence. You will set the direction for technology infrastructure, cyber security, and digital platforms—ensuring our systems are robust, secure, and future-ready. There are many exciting programmes underway including potential expansion of our EPR across the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, procurement of an IT managed service provider as our contract expires in 2028, and two new hospitals under construction. We are looking for an experienced technology leader who will bring: Senior leadership experience in large, complex organisations Deep expertise across infrastructure, cloud, cyber security, and enterprise architecture A strong track record of delivering large-scale transformation and managing major contracts The ability to translate strategy into delivery, influencing across organisational boundaries Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical and non-technical audiences Strong results in leading and managing highly performing teams This role is critical to ensuring that our technology enables safe and effective patient care—every hour of every day. ## Job Description You will: lead the development of a modern, resilient technology estate, spanning cloud, infrastructure, and core clinical systems shape and deliver the Trust’s cyber security and system resilience strategy drive innovation across AI, automation, and emerging technologies oversee a complex, high-value outsourced IT managed service and supplier ecosystem champion interoperability and integration to enable seamless patient care establish strong governance, ensuring compliance with national standards and regulations This role may attract Recruitment and Retention Premia depending on the experience and expertise of the candidate. ## Responsibilities Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities. Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: - applied for a Graduate visa - or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment This vacancy will close at midnight on the 14th June 2026. Interviews are due to be held on the 22nd June 2026. Benefits to you At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff. On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH. CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times. Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered. We welcome applications from the Armed Forces. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - A high level of resilience and the ability to work in a challenging environment where competing priorities are common. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and external to the Trust. - Ability to negotiate, persuade and influence at all levels both within and across organisational boundaries. - High-level of analytical and problem-solving skills. - Ability to deal with highly complex and sensitive issues, such as contentious contractual issues or breaches of information security. - Ability to make sound decisions on operational and service issues and developments based on knowledge and experience. - Ability to plan and manage complex programmes of work, and to make informed judgements and decisions where there is a multiplicity of targets / objectives, imperfect information, and no obvious precedent. - Management of large and complex budgets. - High level of numeracy and analytical skills and ability to understand complex issues, often in the context of contractual challenges. - Excellent leadership and management skills with ability to influence and motivate teams to manage change and achieve organisational goals. ### Knowledge **Essential** - Expert knowledge of industry-standard protocols such as HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) for healthcare, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), and SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture). - Cyber security expertise. - A strategic understanding of cloud architecture to drive business value, ensure scalability, and manage costs. - Understanding of Information Governance. - An understanding of contract and procurement legislation and practice. - Understanding of common information security and technology management frameworks such as ISO/IEC 27000/27001, ITIL, TOGAF and COBIT. **Desirable** - Awareness and understanding of NHS organisational structure, plans and policies. - Legislation, regulation, policies and procedures relating to healthcare information including those specific to the NHS. - Understanding of Microsoft Licensing. ### Experience **Essential** - Senior management and leadership of a technology team in a large and complex organisation. - Providing cyber security expertise and delivery responsibility to a large and complex organisation. - Developing and monitoring business continuity and disaster recovery plans for critical IT systems. - Leading and coordinating incident response arrangements. - Managing significant and highly complex contracts, which includes overall responsibility for the relationship, as well as for individual projects or programmes to be delivered. - Managing risks, reporting and preparing papers and correspondence at Board level. - Communicating complex information in a clear and understandable way to non-information managers and staff. - Managing external customers, contractors, suppliers and third parties. **Desirable** - Audit, information security or governance in the context of the NHS. - Managing and improving an estate comprising legacy technologies in need of transformation, whilst maintaining focus on priorities that drive organisational change. - Managing large scale highly complex and highly sensitive programmes that require significant clinical and executive engagement for success. - Technical management of electronic patient records. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Masters in a relevant leadership or technical area or relevant industry experience. - The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) certification or similar. - IT service delivery accreditation e.g. ITIL or similar. **Desirable** - Professional recognised qualification e.g. BCS, CISSP etc. - Professional certification in relevant technologies (e.g., Microsoft Azure, Cisco, VMware VDI, Dell vSAN, Citrix, Win Server, SQL Server). - Project and programme management certification such as Prince2, Agile or MSP. ### Additional Requirements **Essential** - The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent. - On-call arrangements as required and ability to work out of standard business hours where required eg incidents, implementations. - The post-holder must be able to plan ahead, to manage and prioritise their workload and respond flexibly to rapidly changing demands. ## Documents - [applicant information pack (pdf, 422.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10324348) - [information for applicants - completing your application (pdf, 222.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10325549) ## 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.