Band 8d Deputy Director of Informatics (Clinical Systems)

Job summary

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (BHRUT) is seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Deputy Director of Informatics (Clinical Systems) to lead the strategic development and delivery of our clinical systems portfolio.

In this senior leadership role, you will be responsible for the deployment, optimisation, and performance of key systems including Millennium, Sectra, WinPath, and EMIS. You will oversee the successful delivery of the Millennium programme and associated digital initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and deliver measurable benefits for patients and staff.

Working closely with clinical, operational, and executive stakeholders, you will drive interoperability, digital maturity, and continuous improvement across the Trust and wider health community. You will provide expert leadership to a multidisciplinary informatics team, manage significant budgets and resources, and represent Informatics at senior governance forums.

You will have substantial senior management experience in NHS Informatics or a comparable healthcare setting, a relevant degree (Master's desirable), and a strong track record of delivering large-scale clinical systems programmes. Excellent communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills are essential, alongside a passion for digital innovation, equality, and high-quality patient care.

Planned Interview date week commencing 5th January 2026

Main duties of the job

To promote and support the effective use of data, information, knowledge and technology to aid and improve health and health care delivery.

To ensure an organisation has the required cost effective systems, information and technology services needed to provide excellent clinical care to its patients, in conjunction with its partners throughout the wider health community.

Are accountable for the smooth running of the clinical applications and integration of systems across the Trust.

Responsible for producing results that are capable of achieving the benefits defined in the programme Business Case.

Responsible for the strategic development of electronic record services and development of clinical technology, and for working with stakeholders to ensure requirements are captured and reviewed for inclusion in one or more programmes of delivery.

Daily responsibilities include providing routine status reports, regular updates and expert level input into project board meetings and steering committees related to clinical systems. Other key responsibilities include the delivery of agreed informatics strategy jointly with ICT and Information teams, ownership of significant budget allocation, operational leadership, staffing demands and capabilities and ensuring a suitable team of experts are available to the Trust to provide the smooth and safe operational delivery of the clinical systems.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance

We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.

Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.