Assistant Director of ICT Data & Applications
Main area
Digital
Grade
Band 8c
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time \- 37\.5 hours per week
Job ref
271\-ICT\-7985303
Site
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Town
London
Salary
£88,250 \- £100,355 per annum inclusive
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
15/06/2026 23:59
Interview date
22/06/2026
Job overview
This is a senior NHS leadership position at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) — Assistant Director of ICT Data \& Applications, sitting at Band 8C and reporting to the Chief Digital Information Officer.
The role is essentially responsible for overseeing all of GOSH's IT applications and data systems (excluding the Electronic Patient Record). This means managing three teams covering Digital Content Systems, Enterprise Applications, and Interoperability, with around 19 staff in total, and a budget of roughly £3M.
Day\-to\-day, the postholder would be balancing strategic planning (shaping the hospital's long\-term IT direction), operational management (keeping clinical and non\-clinical systems running reliably), supplier relationships, and staff leadership. There's also a significant stakeholder dimension — engaging with everyone from frontline clinical staff up to Trust Board level.
It's a broad, hands\-on senior role at a world\-renowned specialist children's hospital, ideal for someone with deep NHS IT experience who's comfortable operating at both a technical and executive level.
Main duties of the job
Strategic \& Planning Setting short and long\-term IT strategy, researching and recommending new products and services, negotiating with vendors, managing operational costs and financial forecasting, and reporting regularly to the Digital, Data and Transformation Board.
Operational Management Leading the Clinical Data \& Applications teams, monitoring customer satisfaction with IT services, ensuring industry best practice is applied, and reviewing business needs against the annual Trust plan to align IT service delivery.
IT Operations \& Administration Overseeing all IT applications used across GOSH, managing the Trust's datasets and ensuring data availability, driving continuous improvement of IT processes, and acting as an escalation point around the troubleshooting of hardware, software and cloud\-based services.
Service Level Management Ensuring IT support meets agreed service levels, reviewing third\-party performance against KPIs, managing supplier relationships, and overseeing the contract for the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) remote hosting.
Applications \& Data Infrastructure Providing leadership for the application and data domain, responding to audit findings, and conducting cost\-benefit analyses for proposed application purchases.
Staff Management Supervising four teams and three direct reports, allocating work, mentoring staff, monitoring performance, and facilitating effective working relationships across the team.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a fair, open and consistent process that is free from bias and discrimination.
We are working towards becoming an anti\-racist organisation. This means creating a workplace where every colleague feels seen, heard and valued, and where racism in any form has no place. Our anti\-racism commitment is backed by action through our Anti\-Racism Statement and action plan, developed in collaboration with our REACH staff network.
We actively challenge discrimination, dismantle barriers and embed equity across all aspects of our workforce, including recruitment, progression and development. All applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health condition or employment history.
We particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, people with disabilities or long\-term health conditions, and LGBTQ\+ community members. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
Our staff networks, including REACH, PRIDE, ENABLED and Women’s Networks, are active and executive supported. These employee\-led networks play a vital role in shaping an inclusive culture at GOSH and are open to all colleagues.
Together, we are building a culture where inclusion is not optional \- it is essential.
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 documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
GOSH Culture and Values
Essential criteria
Our Always valuesAcademic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential criteria
Master’s degree or equivalent relevant experience
Post Graduate Qualification in Health Informatics, Project/Programme Management or Information Technology or equivalent experience
Relevant Microsoft certification or equivalent experience
One or more security qualifications (e.g. CISSP, CISM, CISA) Information Risk Management qualification (e.g. CRISC) COBIT 5/2019 (minimum foundation level)Desirable criteria
Experience of delivering and managing complex transformation programmes
Knowledge of OJEU procurement and contract processes
Prince2 or equivalent project/programme management qualification
ITIL support management qualification or equivalentExperience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
Experience (5\+ years) in managing complex IT environments, preferably within the NHS
Experience of planning and managing the technical aspects of IT application deployments, delivering to plan and managing exceptions in a complex environment
Experience of managing significant operational budgets (\>£1m pa)
Experience of managing significant capital budgets (\>£2m pa)
Experience of managing stakeholders, ensuring high quality and timely communications across project groups and organisational management
Advanced written skills with the ability to write complex business papers, reports and policy documents that are suitable for approval by high level Trust groups
Ability to work across institutions and boundaries between healthcare sectors to formulate and implement projects and deliver agreed benefits
Excellent business analytical skills and knowledge of budget management, business case development, financial planning and benefits realisation
Able to work under significant pressure to achieve deadlines whilst managing frequent interruptions. Ability to concentrate for long periods of time on complex transactional clinical data and process analysis
Good understanding of HL7, FHIR and interoperability standardsDesirable criteria
Experience of managing multi\-vendor platforms and supplier relationships
Management of integration teams and integration infrastructure
Familiarity with ISO27001 and implementation of ISMS frameworks
Understand of Agentic AI architectures and LLMsSkills/Abilities
Essential criteria
Exceptional organisational, analytical and strategic level logistics planning skills
Exceptional leadership qualities with the ability to lead, manage and motivate staff into achieving a common goal
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate, negotiate and influence staff at all E levels in the organisation, including clinical staff, managerial staff and senior/board level executives, as well as with external suppliers
Excellent knowledge of enterprise IT applications and software programmes, ideally in the healthcare environment
Ability to assess complex application and transactional clinical data related issues and identify solutions.
Inspires and sets direction for others
Outcome\-focused and proactive
Collaborative and open communicator
Committed to continuous improvement and innovationDesirable criteria
Ability to negotiate beneficial outcomes with suppliers and partners
*Please be advised that:*
*The recruitment process for all admin and clerical roles at Bands 2\-4 will be a two stage recruitment process whereby shortlisted candidates will undertake an online literacy, numeracy, ICT and typing test. Only those candidates who pass the competency test will proceed to a formal interview.*
*The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.*
*Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification criteria for this post will be shortlisted. Please note that where high volumes of applicants have been received, additional criteria may on occasion be used to determine the final shortlist.*
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 .
*We are an accredited Living Wage Employer.*
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
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