NHSX national CIO job advert goes online to help achieve long term plan

The job advertisement for the national CIO role at NHSX has been posted, following the departure of Will Smart.

Digital Health News revealed in June 2019 that Smart was leaving his role as CIO for health and care with the news later confirmed by NHSX CEO, Matthew Gould.

Smart, who is now at DXC Technology, officially left in September 2019.

A job advert for his replacement has now been published by NHSX, the unit tasked with overseeing digital transformation across the NHS.

Some of the key responsibilities of the role are:

• Making sure NHSX is fully sighted on what is going on with technology across the NHS system and links are continually forged across the network.
• Building ways to share knowledge and best practice across the system to ensure learning and innovation across the network is accessible and transferable.
• Managing the provider digitisation programmes to ensure we are helping the system to digitise. In particular, leading the Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) programme and successor programmes

As a core member of the senior management team, the national CIO will work with the CEO and  CCIO at NHSX as well as others to help deliver the missions of the organisation, and the long-term plan commitments to help digitise the NHS.

NHSX’s CCIO, Simon Eccles, tweeted a link to the role, adding he was happy to chat to anyone who was thinking of applying.

The national CIO post is finally up on NHS jobs. We’d love the most diverse pool ever – v v happy to chat if you’re thinking of applying (and thanks to everyone so far) This job is so important to the LTP, it’s the fulcrum of NHS and NHSX. Please applyhttps://t.co/9AKjRYcYO0

— Simon Eccles (@DrSimonEccles) November 14, 2019

Applications for the role close on 28 November. More information can be found here.

NHSX has also recently advertised for a chief technology officer (CTO) and a CNIO.