Interim Head of IT

Interim Head of IT

• Hours: 37.5 hours per week
• Location: Rennie House, Tring with travel to other base locations required.
• Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 per annum depending on experience
• Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract for 6 months
• Closing date: Thursday 19 November 2026 at 12 noon
• Interview date: TBC

Are you an experienced IT leader who combines strategic thinking with hands-on delivery and wants to use your expertise to support a cause that truly matters?

Join our ICT team and play a vital role behind the scenes — enabling our colleagues to deliver outstanding, compassionate care every day.

As Interim Head of IT, you will lead our digital, information governance and ICT services for an initial six-month period. You will be responsible for maintaining business-critical systems, strengthening cyber security, ensuring compliance with data protection legislation, and progressing key digital improvement initiatives

What you will do

✅ Providing strategic leadership on technology, cyber security, data governance and digital transformation.

✅ Ensuring stable and effective ICT operations and service delivery.

✅ Leading digital infrastructure, cloud services, networks and system improvements.

✅ Acting as the organisation's Information Governance Lead.

✅ Ensuring compliance with UK GDPR, Data Protection legislation and NHS Data Security & Protection Toolkit requirements.

✅ Leading and developing the ICT team.

✅ Improving reporting, data governance and organisational use of information.

✅ Strengthening business continuity and disaster recovery arrangements.​

✅ Producing recommendations and future plans to support long-term digital success.

What you will need

• Significant experience in a senior ICT leadership, interim management or transformation role
• Proven success leading organisational change, digital transformation or service improvement programmes
• Strong experience managing cyber security, information governance and data protection compliance
• Experience operating within a regulated environment such as healthcare, charity or public sector organisations
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience leading teams, managing budgets and influencing senior leaders

Additional role requirements

• All candidates must have the right to work in the UK.
• We do not sponsor for this role and due to the minimal hours required for this role, we cannot progress applications for candidates sponsored by another employer.
• Manual handling and/or heavy lifting.
• Full, current valid UK driving licence.
• Access to a vehicle which can be used for work purposes.
• Car insurance, including business cover.
• If successful a Basic DBS check will be undertaken during onboarding.

For an informal chat about this role contact Tim Gray, Director of Finance on tim.gray@renniegrovepeace.org

Please click on the attached link for further information about Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care - https://renniegrovepeace.org/our-care-and-support/

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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate to this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.

Our commitment to Equality and Diversity

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care we strive to continuously demonstrate our values. These values are embedded in our recruitment and selection process, and we are fully committed to equality, diversity and inclusion in both our workforce and within our culture.

If you are disabled and satisfactorily meet the job specification, we will invite you to interview. You can contact us to let us know if you need any adjustments during the recruitment process.

The Company

The Company has experienced unprecedented growth over the past few years. We have a vast number of employees, and provide support to clients from all over the country.

The Company

At Rennie Grove Peace Hospice Care, we’re all about making every moment matter for our patients and families, and you can play your part in that. We will support people of all ages who are affected by a progressive life- limiting illness (and those who care for them), to live as well as possible by providing choice and ease access to a wide range of palliative care and bereavement services across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. We provide care and support for adults and children diagnosed with cancer and other life-limiting illness, and their families, visiting day and night. It’s important work and, to make it all happen, we need talented and passionate people.

Employee benefits overview

At Rennie Grove Peace, we are committed to creating a workplace where our staff can develop their careers and make a real difference.
​A summary of benefits is below:

We offer competitive salaries
All roles are benchmarked against the external market and against the NHS pay structure for Clinical employees.

Plan your future with our Pension scheme options
Standard Life scheme with matched contributions; up to 7% (with a min of 4% employee contribution) or options for continuation in the NHS pension scheme for eligible staff.

Protected with Life Assurance
2x salary paid in the event of death for eligible employees up to age 75.

Family friendly policies
Including enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity pay. Pro-rata for part time roles.

We pay professional registration fees for eligible employees in clinical roles

We reimburse your travel expenses
Eligible employees can claim travel expenses for mileage that qualifies for payment (subject to HMRC rules).

Additional employee discounts available
Including retail, entertainment and services discounts, including the Blue Light Card (subject to purchase of membership).

Achieving a work-life balance is important. We want you to enjoy your work and take valuable time out to relax and be with your loved ones. We enable this through the following:

Flexible working
Including hybrid, part time, job share (depending on role requirements).

Generous holiday entitlement
27 days per annum, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 30 days at 5 years and 33 days at 10 years’ service. (Pro-rata for part-time roles)

Birthday leave

Religious holidays
We are mindful of individual requests.

Your health and wellbeing is important, and we offer you options to support you in maintaining your health.

Health Cash Plan

• Rennie Grove Peace funded membership for you and up to four children.
• Membership can be extended to include your partner, at the employee’s expense.
• Including financial support for health screening, prescriptions, dental/optical, diagnostic tests/consultations, physiotherapy, chiropody, complementary/alternative therapies, as well as virtual GP services and discounted health club membership (subject to eligibility).
• Employee Assistance Programme – free 24/7 confidential service, offering unlimited access to advice, information, coaching and counselling, where appropriate.

Additional rules apply, these can be discussed with you.

We are committed in supporting your personal growth and development and we provide a range of opportunities, including:

• Comprehensive induction programme to help you settle in quickly.
• Regular development conversations with your Line Manager.
• Training and development opportunities including externally funded courses and coaching, where appropriate.
• Specialist palliative training for clinicians and non-clinicians.
• Clinical supervision training and mentoring for clinicians.
• Protected and dedicated time given to learning and developing.
• Employee Voice – fantastic opportunities to join collaborative focus groups.
• Opportunity to develop through our exciting programme of fundraising events and social occasions.