Chief Technology and Product Officer; CTPO University Hospitals NHS Trust

Chief Technology and Product Officer (CTPO) | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

The Chief Technology and Product Officer (CTPO) plays a pivotal leadership role in shaping and delivering digital transformation ambitions. Reporting to the Chief Digital Information Officer, the CTPO leads innovation, technology adoption, and the development of digital infrastructure that supports clinical and operational excellence.

The CTPO plays a central role in delivering the One Digital Strategy. This includes embedding digital into all transformation efforts, accelerating the adoption of safe and effective emerging technologies, and creating a unified, user-focused digital culture across UHL .

This role requires a combination of strategic acumen, political awareness, system leadership, and partnership influence.

Budget:

Responsible for multi-million-pound digital and innovation budgets (> £10 million), ensuring strategic return on investment, value for money, and funding from grants and partnerships.

Staff:

Leads a diverse senior digital workforce across disciplines. Accountable for their development, training, appraisal, wellbeing and performance.

Policy:

Shapes and influences Trust-wide digital policy, aligning with regional and national strategies, including the NHS Long Term Plan, the 10-Year Health and Care Plan, and other enabling digital and innovation frameworks.

Communication:

Leads effective communication and stakeholder engagement across clinical, operational, digital, academic, and industry partners locally, regionally, and nationally.

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years ).

We have four primary goals:

• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

• Set the Trust’s digital innovation agenda and deliver the digital innovation strategy, aligned with NHS Long Term Plan, 10-Year Health and Care Plan, and enabling frameworks.
• Act as strategic advisor to Boards and Executives on innovation, technology investment, and digital capability.
• Influence national digital and innovation policy through engagement with NHS and government bodies.
• Represent the trust regionally and nationally to shape and contribute to wider system innovation agendas.
• Expand and mature strategic partnerships with health tech, academia, and industry to position the Trust as a national leader in safe, responsible innovation.
• Identify and deliver opportunities for digital commercialisation and innovation income generation, ensuring ethical compliance and reinvestment into services

• Lead the modernisation of core digital foundations, ensuring network resilience, rapid device turnaround, and responsive support to meet operational needs.
• Define and oversee enterprise architecture, technical design principles, and digital standards to ensure coherence and scalability across the Trust's digital estate.
• Drive consolidation of legacy systems and standardisation of infrastructure to create intuitive, seamless digital experiences across the Trust.
• Champion secure, cloud-based, interoperable and AI-ready digital platforms.
• Ensure cyber resilience, business continuity, and compliance with UK GDPR and NHS standards.
• Lead strategic oversight of digital risk, governance frameworks, and clinical safety in digital systems.

• Oversee delivery of complex digital transformation…