North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Group Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO)
Group Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO)
HartlepoolOn-Site
PermanentFull-Time
£66,582 - £77,368per annumFTE
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North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Group Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO)
The closing date is 20 November 2026
Job summary
University Hospital Tees is seeking to appoint a Group Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) to join the corporate nursing and digital team. They will drive digital innovation through the patients and clinician's lens.
The CNIO is professionally aligned to the Nursing Directorate and operates within a joint Nursing and Digital governance framework. The role provides leadership across both nursing practice and digital transformation and serves as a key link between clinical services and the Digital Directorate.
The CNIO will serve as a core member of the Digital Leadership Team, ensuring that nursing and clinical priorities are represented within digital strategy, programme governance, technology investment and transformation decision-making.
The CNIO is the main point of liaison for NMAHP informatics, working collaboratively with other health care professionals, operational managers and IT professionals. Sharing the strategic vision for how technology will enhance nursing practices, clinical care, quality and patient safety.
To support the selection, design and implementation of clinical information systems, ensuring smooth integration of technology into nursing and clinical workflows that will support the transformation of care.
As a transformational leader with exemplary clinical credibility, the CNIO understands and communicates the benefits of IT enabled initiatives to engage the clinical workforce.
Main duties of the job
Working in close partnership with the Director of Nursing and the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), the CNIO provides the strategic nursing informatics leadership to advance the adoption and optimisation of nursing informatics within the organisation.
The post holder will bridge strategic digital leadership and operational delivery, ensuring that digital, data and technology-enabled change is clinically led, safe, adopted, optimised and focused on measurable improvements for patients, service users, carers, staff and the organisation.
The CNIO is a nursing leader responsible and accountable for advancing clinical quality and patient safety through the optimal use of digitally enabled clinical initiatives that effect or involve NMAHP clinical work practices.
The CNIO is responsible for the development of standards pertaining to patient safety and quality care for the use of clinical information systems. Developing links with clinical staff and other stakeholders to ensure that the digital transformation is clinically relevant and meets the needs of patients and clinical staff.
The role requires a registered senior nurse who evidences clinical credibility and the ability to influence at a senior level and provide visible leadership across UHT
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates, including those who first language is not English.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Job location: University Hospital of North Tees, Hardwick Road, Hardwick, Hartlepool, TS19 8PE
Person Specification
Qualifications
Experience
Knowledge
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Address: University Hospital of North Tees, Hardwick Road, Hardwick, Hartlepool, TS19 8PE, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nth.nhs.uk/
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Director of Nursing / Deputy Chief Nurse, Dr Lindsay Garcia, lindsay.garcia1@nhs.net, 01642850850
Privacy notice: North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice.
Group Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO)
The closing date is 20 November 2026
Job summary
University Hospital Tees is seeking to appoint a Group Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) to join the corporate nursing and digital team. They will drive digital innovation through the patients and clinician's lens.
The CNIO is professionally aligned to the Nursing Directorate and operates within a joint Nursing and Digital governance framework. The role provides leadership across both nursing practice and digital transformation and serves as a key link between clinical services and the Digital Directorate.
The CNIO will serve as a core member of the Digital Leadership Team, ensuring that nursing and clinical priorities are represented within digital strategy, programme governance, technology investment and transformation decision-making.
The CNIO is the main point of liaison for NMAHP informatics, working collaboratively with other health care professionals, operational managers and IT professionals. Sharing the strategic vision for how technology will enhance nursing practices, clinical care, quality and patient safety.
To support the selection, design and implementation of clinical information systems, ensuring smooth integration of technology into nursing and clinical workflows that will support the transformation of care.
As a transformational leader with exemplary clinical credibility, the CNIO understands and communicates the benefits of IT enabled initiatives to engage the clinical workforce.
Main duties of the job
Working in close partnership with the Director of Nursing and the Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), the CNIO provides the strategic nursing informatics leadership to advance the adoption and optimisation of nursing informatics within the organisation.
The post holder will bridge strategic digital leadership and operational delivery, ensuring that digital, data and technology-enabled change is clinically led, safe, adopted, optimised and focused on measurable improvements for patients, service users, carers, staff and the organisation.
The CNIO is a nursing leader responsible and accountable for advancing clinical quality and patient safety through the optimal use of digitally enabled clinical initiatives that effect or involve NMAHP clinical work practices.
The CNIO is responsible for the development of standards pertaining to patient safety and quality care for the use of clinical information systems. Developing links with clinical staff and other stakeholders to ensure that the digital transformation is clinically relevant and meets the needs of patients and clinical staff.
The role requires a registered senior nurse who evidences clinical credibility and the ability to influence at a senior level and provide visible leadership across UHT
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust have come together to form University Hospitals Tees. As a result, post holders may be required to work across sites within both organisations.
Across University Hospitals Tees, our ambition is to be the best place to work, ensuring we have the right staff in the right roles at the right time to deliver outstanding patient care and experience.
We are committed to supporting our staff through an inclusive and supportive working environment, offering health and wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits, and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from suitably qualified candidates, including those who first language is not English.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Band: Band 8b
Salary: £66,582 to £77,368 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Job location: University Hospital of North Tees, Hardwick Road, Hardwick, Hartlepool, TS19 8PE
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Essential: Current registration with the NMC
- Essential: Recognised post registration qualification in teaching/mentorship
- Essential: Masters' qualification
- Essential: Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Essential: Evidence of continuing professional development
- Desirable: Qualification in Health Informatics
- Desirable: PRINCE 2 Foundation/Practitioner
- Desirable: Digital Clinical Safety Practitioner
- Desirable: Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme (4.5 days) / Dare to Lead
Experience
- Essential: Experience of working at a senior level (band 8a or above) in a complex environment and across different specialities/directorates
- Essential: Experience in leading and managing a service or team with a high degree of autonomy
- Essential: Experience of leading large and complex service / quality improvement projects
- Essential: Experience in audit, research and innovation activity
- Essential: Teaching/presentation skills/Organisational planning
- Desirable: Experience of service evaluation
- Desirable: Development and delivery of strategies
- Desirable: Delivery of trust wide projects and or contractual working
- Desirable: Ability to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, or contentious information
Knowledge
- Essential: Robust leadership skills
- Essential: Ability to work strategically
- Essential: Ability to hold others to account
- Essential: Influencing & negotiating skills outside of line management
- Essential: Quality Improvement management experience at senior level
- Essential: Knowledge and understanding of NHS and social care policy and strategy, including CQC KLOE and fundamental standards
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name: North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Address: University Hospital of North Tees, Hardwick Road, Hardwick, Hartlepool, TS19 8PE, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nth.nhs.uk/
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Director of Nursing / Deputy Chief Nurse, Dr Lindsay Garcia, lindsay.garcia1@nhs.net, 01642850850
Privacy notice: North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust's privacy notice.
