# Senior Digital Transformation Lead

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- **Location:** St Mary's Hospital (The Bays)
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Transformation manager
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £75,328 - £86,114 pa inclusive
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-01T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16T11:30:37.774Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8373547
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8373547?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.imperial.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The senior digital transformation lead is a senior leadership role to shape, deliver and optimise digital transformation across the North West London Acute Provider Group. You will lead a portfolio of clinical systems and EPR enabled change, ensuring programmes deliver measurable benefits, safe and high-quality implementation, improved adoption and better experiences for patients and staff.

Working across four NHS trusts, you will collaborate with executive leaders, senior clinicians, operational teams, digital specialists and suppliers to redesign care pathways, unwarranted variation and embed continuous improvement,. You will also lead and develop transformation and training teams, influence strategic decision-making and help turn the APG digital strategy into practical sustainable improvement across the wider EPR ecosystem

### Main duties of the job

- The post holder will lead specific multi-organisation digital transformation programmes and act as a key business partner for an APG trust.
- They will oversee the design, implementation and optimisation of clinical systems and EPR-enabled change, translating clinical and operational priorities into deliverable plans, redesigned pathways and measurable benefits.
- Key duties include chairing and facilitating stakeholder groups; engaging executives, senior clinicians, operational leaders, digital teams and suppliers; and providing clear assurance and progress reports to governance forums.
- The role will ensure changes meet end user requirements to improve usability, productivity and efficiency whilst holding improved patient experience at the heart of everything they do. Changes must comply with clinical safety, information governance, cyber security, programme governance and national digital standards.
- The post holder will analyse the impact of new processes, support clinical safety cases and hazard logs, develop policies and standard operating procedures, and use data and analytics to target adoption and improvement.
- They will lead, motivate and develop transformation and training staff, manage performance and resources, support business cases and benefits realisation, and promote a collaborative culture of innovation and continuous improvement across all four trusts.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Proven experience of undertaking change management within the NHS
- Good understanding of the NHS and the national Information for Health Strategy and involvement in the production of local (organisation) or sector wide strategies
- Knowledge of health information systems, electronic patient records in particular Cerner Millennium
- Expert knowledge of Transformation / Change Management theory and techniques
- Experience of staff management
- Project Management and delivering projects

### Education/ qualifications

**Essential**

- Masters level qualification or equivalent experience in digital or allied field.
- Post graduate qualification in a related subject or evidence of recent professional development.
- Evidence of continuous professional development

**Desirable**

- Formal project management
- Qualification – Prince II
- Digital qualification(s) appropriate to Technology Innovation role

## Documents

- [job description (pdf, 407.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10701519)
- [our strategy 2023-25 (pdf, 230.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=427)
- [functional request form (pdf, 104.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10701520)

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