Chief Delivery & Governance Officer, Band 8d

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Chief Delivery & Governance Officer, Band 8d The closing date is 14 December 2025

This is a senior leadership role at the heart of the Trust's digital function-one that offers real scope to shape how we deliver care through technology.

As Chief Delivery & Governance Officer, you'll lead the teams responsible for our digital programme delivery, cyber security, and information governance. You'll be steering major projects, managing significant budgets, and helping to build digital services that are safe, effective, and genuinely useful to patients and staff.

It's a role that blends strategic thinking with hands on delivery. You'll be working across clinical, corporate and system partners to make sure our digital investments support the Trust's wider goals-whether that's improving patient experience, enabling smarter working, or future proofing our infrastructure.

We're looking for someone who is inspiring and confident navigating complexity, comfortable with technical detail, and able to bring people with them through change. Someone who understands the NHS, knows how to get things done, and wants to make a meaningful difference.

If you're ready to lead from the front, shape the future of digital in healthcare, and work with a team that's committed to doing things properly-this could be the opportunity you've been waiting for.

The proposed interview date for this vacancy is: 5th January

Main duties of the job

• Provide effective leadership of the Digital PMO, IG and Cyber Security Teams
• Design, develop operating models and implement a programme management framework ensuring effective delivery of all major projects
• Design, develop and implement an IG and Cyber Security operating model and framework to ensure the effective delivery of strategies and plans
• Support the development of highly complex business cases
• Develop robust and effective partnerships with Divisions and Corporate Functions.
• Develop and maintain strategic partnerships with the System, NHS E/I Strategic teams, and local delivery partners.
• Develop and maintain the governance and processes to maximise inputs from Supply Change Partners.
• Manage the current planning processes to ensure that all areas are delivering in accordance with industry best practice.
• Act with a high degree of autonomy, managing own workload and overseeing highly technical work streams delivered by DTI staff, Supply Chain Partners and external consultants.
• Meet all national and local service delivery targets.
• Contribute to delivery of the Trust's strategic objectives
• Develop and implement Policy to ensure compliance with all statutory and technical standards

About us We take pride in placing people at the centre of everything we do, working together as a united team. Driven by a shared ambition to continually grow, develop, and learn, we recognise and value every contribution. By combining our experience and skills, we not only support our vibrant, diverse communities, but also support one another.

With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. By joining our Trust, you will benefit from an excellent package that includes exclusive benefits, flexible working opportunities and the chance to gain valuable experience in one or both of our innovative hospitals.

As well as generous annual leave allowance, you will have access to the excellent NHS pension scheme, competitive bank rates, discounts at local shops and restaurants, access to two on site nurseries, discounted public transport, reward and recognition and a range of health and wellbeing initiatives to support you.

Job responsibilities Strategic Development

• Lead on the development of the Digital Programme and Information & Cyber Plans
• Ensure the Trusts digital assets are developed to best practice
• Provide strategic planning options for increasing the Trusts digital, information governance, and cyber maturity, and empowering patients to become digital citizens, aligned with the Trusts clinical strategy
• Support the shaping, development and delivery of the Trusts digital strategy taking account of all dependencies, infrastructure and interfaces for multiple projects
• Facilitate and lead strategic relationships with stakeholders including those operating services from the wider system and Trust, providing timely advice to system partners, the Executive Directors, Trust Management Executive, Trust Board, and other stakeholders as required

Digital Investments

• Managing the capital investments in scope of the digital programme including capital development, investment plan, capital planning, costing, resourcing and prioritisation. Work with the digital leadership team to priorise capital investment to balance competing needs and risks
• In collaboration with senior peers provide advice on all aspects of digital investment
• Provide progress reports on the Digital programme to the relevant Trust governance forums such as Trust Leadership team and Finance and Resource Committee
• Manage the Trusts Digital programme ensuring the timely and successful delivery of projects from inception to completion
• Actively seek alternative sources of funding for capital developments

Digital Programmes

• Manage digital projects including all documentation from initial brief to handover
• Oversee programme management of the current and future digital programme
• Ensure that programme and project structures are established with programme and project roles and responsibilities defined and that these arrangements are documented with appropriate governance in place including project initiation documents and risk assessments throughout the planning, design, tendering, reporting, approval, implementation, go live and post completion stages
• Work together with senior clinicians, nursing, infection control, procurement, patient user groups and staff to ensure all concerned are actively involved in design options for the programme in order to deliver high quality, effective and efficient patient care demonstrating best practice and value for money
• Carry out feasibility studies with budget and detailed estimate of work including option appraisals, draft designs, support for business plans and recommendations for submission of funding bids
• Oversee the Management of project design and specification in a multi discipline environment
• Ensure that health and safety precautions are taken into account throughout all stages of a project including and risk assessments to ensure that projects can be carried out with minimum risk to staff, patients and visitors
• Oversee the Development of a library of documentation, specifications, schedule of costs and products improving the quality of capital schemes
• Manage external suppliers including briefing, procurement monitoring and contract management
• Oversee the management of the delivery of digital projects in accordance with the Treasury Green Book, and other relevant guidance and best practice
• Fulfil the role of Programme lead for relevant digital projects
• Consult with appropriate clinical and operational leads across the Trust to identify the preferred models of care underpinning digital projects and the change management plans required to deliver scheme benefits
• Commission supply partners in accordance with Trust Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions
• Manage the procurement, design, configuration, implementation, and successful delivery of digital projects to the required quality standards, within budget and in programme including awarding contracts, approval of final accounts and contractual financial claims
• Provide progress reports on the digital programme against budget, timescale and quality objectives to relevant Trust groups
• Provide professional advice in terms of Programme and project planning
• Support the Head of PMO & Delivery in the delivery of a high class Project Management Office (PMO)
• Support the Head of PMO & Delivery in the development of project plans and resource plans
• Lead of the prioritisation of digital projects ensuring that a deliverable digital programme is aligned to Trust requirements on an ongoing basis

Cyber Security

• Oversee the Head of Cyber in developing a comprehensive and cohesive plan for the development and maintenance of IT/cyber security which meets the strategic direction of the Trust while minimising unnecessary disruption to stakeholders involved in the process and is operationally sound
• Work with the Trusts Head of Cyber to: Ensure the Cyber Security team have a clear strategy and improvement plan for a co ordinated approach to the implementation of Cyber Security within the Trust
• Advocate IT/cyber security at senior and executive levels and ensure active engagement and sponsorship within NHS as a whole
• Ensure that the IT/cyber security maintains business focus, has clear authority and that the context, including risks and policy, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of the NHS
• Ensure compliance to the Data Security Protection Toolkit
• Lead IT Security initiatives aimed at ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information

Information Governance (Including Subject Access Request)

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