# Deputy Director of Digital Delivery > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for NHS England. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-director-of-digital-delivery/41786e73-993f-4894-abd2-7cc6b185ec72 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/deputy-director-of-digital-delivery/41786e73-993f-4894-abd2-7cc6b185ec72.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** NHS England - **Location:** National - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Director - **Grade:** Band 9 - **Salary:** £112,782 - £129,783 per annum (exclusive of London weighting) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Job share, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-20T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-04T14:42:22.142Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/West_Yorkshire/National/NHS_England/Administration/Administration-v8224276 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8224276?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.england.nhs.uk/ ## Job Content ### Job overview Data and Analytics is central to delivering the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, leading national programmes worth £1.5 billion. This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of the NHS and help drive improvements in health and care services for millions of people. As Deputy Director of Delivery, you will lead transformation activity across the Transforming and Connecting Care (TCC) programme, working with architects, engineers, clinicians, product teams and policy colleagues to address complex technology and data challenges. TCC aims to improve the sharing of health and care information through the development of a Single Patient Record, enabling secure access to patient records across organisational boundaries. The programme will support faster, safer and more integrated care for patients and clinicians. Reporting to the Programme Director, you will translate strategic objectives into delivery plans, operating models, adoption approaches and measurable outcomes. You will provide leadership across a complex portfolio, ensuring alignment between policy, operational, clinical, digital and delivery workstreams. Working with national, regional and local stakeholders, you will drive organisational change, implementation and benefits realisation, ensuring transformation activity delivers sustainable improvements across the health and care system. This role requires an experienced leader able to operate effectively in a complex, high-profile and politically sensitive environment. ### Main duties of the job Lead the design, coordination and delivery of transformation activity across the TCC programme, ensuring that strategic objectives are translated into practical implementation approaches and sustainable operational change. Develop and oversee transformation plans, operating models, adoption strategies and benefits realisation frameworks that support delivery of programme outcomes. Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders, clinicians, patients, the public, operational teams, regions, suppliers and delivery partners to secure engagement and alignment across the programme. Identify and manage interdependencies across workstreams, ensuring that transformation activities are coordinated and delivered effectively. Provide leadership and direction to multidisciplinary teams, creating an environment that supports collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement. Support programme governance and assurance arrangements, providing clear reporting, analysis and recommendations to enable informed decision-making. Represent the programme at senior forums and contribute to the successful delivery of TCC objectives through effective transformation leadership, stakeholder engagement and implementation support. This is an opportunity to help transform the future of the NHS is ideally suited to highly experienced delivery professions, who can demonstrate their ability to turn strategic plans into delivery and lead large scale organisational change. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, and person specification in the attached Job Description . Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes. ### Applicant requirements This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to lead and inspire multi-disciplinary teams working across multiple functions and organisations. - Demonstrable ability to act upon incomplete information, using experience gained to make inferences and decision making. ### Experience **Essential** - Significant experience of delivering major technology, transformational and organisational change programmes (including adoption and implementation) to transform services, involving multiple organisations and stakeholders. - Proven Board level experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development in a politically sensitive and complex environment. - Experience of designing and implementing operating models, service models or transformation frameworks that deliver and realise measurable benefits. ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area. ## Documents - [occupational functional requirements (pdf, 69.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10569659) - [guide to completing your application (docx, 42.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1939) - [nhse - verification of id and rtw guide (pdf, 306.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=996) - [deputy director of digital delivery_job description (pdf, 456.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10584788) - [note for existing nhs employees applying for fixed term vacancies (docx, 26.2kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2084) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.