Chief Digital and Infrastructure Officer

There is a significant agenda ahead. We are implementing a new electronic patient record, accelerating our digital and AI ambitionsand continuing to improve and invest in a large,complexand varied multi-site estate. The CDIO will provide the executive leadership and strategic coherence needed to ensure these programmes support our clinical priorities and deliver tangible improvements for patients and staff.

You will have executive accountability for our digital and technology assets, including leadership and oversight of the EPR programme and our wider digital, data, AIand cyber agenda. Alongside this, you will provide Board-level leadership for our estate,facilitiesand capital programme, ensuring our physical infrastructure is safe, compliant, effectivelyutilisedand capable of supporting outstanding modern healthcare.

Reporting directly to the Chief Executive and working closely with clinical and executive colleagues, this is much more than a functional leadership position. As a full member of the Board, you will contribute to the overall leadership,performanceand future direction ofUHSussex, while providing clear accountability for a substantial enabling portfolio., We are looking for an accomplished senior leader withsignificant experienceoperatingat or close to Executive Board level within a large and comparably complex organisation.

You will bring substantial experience of digital and/or infrastructure transformation, including major technology or EPR implementation, alongside the strategic and commercial capability to lead significant programmes,investmentand organisational change. Experience of complex estates and capital programmes will also be important. Just as importantly, we are looking for the right kind of executive colleague.

You will bring integrity,resilienceand sound judgement, with the confidence to provide constructive challenge and name uncomfortable truths when necessary. You will be intellectually independent but collegiate, able to create clarity from complexity and committed to collective decision-making and delivery. Our vision is Excellent Care Everywhere, underpinned by our values of being compassionate,inclusiveand respectful.

We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive executive team and particularly welcome interest from people with backgrounds currently under-represented in NHS executive leadership. This is a rare opportunity to shape both the digital and physical future of one of the NHS's largest organisations and to ensure that our infrastructure genuinely enables better care, betterexperiencesand better outcomes., Brings absolute personal integrity and a commitment to openness, transparency and candour.

Is resilient and calm under pressure, with the judgement to act decisively when representing the organisation at the highest level. Draws genuine satisfaction from organisational success and team performance rather than personal profile -- bringing confidence and authority to their own portfolio while being equally at ease supporting and amplifying the work of the whole executive team. Has a collegiate leadership style that combines intellectual independence with the discipline to commit -- someone who brings genuine challenge and diverse thinking to collective decisions, but who understands that high-performing teams align fully behind decisions once made and deliver without reservation or revisitation.

Has the confidence to name uncomfortable truths -- to challenge the Executive team, the Board and the Chief Executive where that is the right thing to do -- and the judgement to do so constructively. Is deeply committed to equity, diversity and inclusion as core organisational values, not a separate programme. Holds a genuine passion for high-quality patient care and staff wellbeing as the purpose of everything the Trust does.

Shows genuine curiosity and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement., Brings absolute personal integrity and a commitment to openness, transparenc