# Deputy Director of Digital

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** Bolton
- **Region:** North West
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Manager and corporate
- **Grade:** Band 8
- **Salary:** £94,356 - £108,814 pro rata
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-31T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-16T08:21:59.321Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Bolton/Bolton_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Digital/Digital-v8129572
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8129572?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.boltonft.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Deputy Director of Digital to support the delivery of our ambitious digital transformation programme.

Working closely with the Director of Digital, you will provide senior leadership across digital services, ensuring the Trust continues to modernise its technology, optimise digital systems, and embed innovation across clinical and operational services.

This is a pivotal leadership role, contributing to both Trust-wide transformation and Greater Manchester digital collaboration.

### Main duties of the job

Working as a key member of the senior leadership team, you will support the Director of Digital in driving organisational change, improving service delivery, and ensuring that digital, data, and technology capabilities enable better outcomes for  stakeholders.

This role requires a collaborative and ambitious leader who can operate at both strategic and operational levels, build strong partnerships across the organisation, and champion innovation while ensuring robust governance, security, and value for money.

The post holder will support the development and delivery of Bolton FT’s Digital Strategy, aligned with NHS England and Greater Manchester ICS priorities

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information and detailed Job description and person specification please see attached documents.

## Person Specification

### Skills

**Essential**

- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues
- Able to form judgements and make autonomous decisions guided by policies and procedures
- Strong leadership qualities and effective management skills
- The ability to communicate contentious information to an audience that may not be receptive

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Extensive knowledge of specialist informatics areas,
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the GMHSCP and individual provider and commissioning organisations

### Experience

**Essential**

- Extensive senior experience in IM&T / Informatics
- Experience of managing large scale informatics programmes.
- Experience in deploying / supporting: EPR/ clinical Applications and patient administration systems
- Understanding of risk management and mitigation

**Desirable**

- Experience of working at or very close to Board level
- Experience managing NHS informatics programmes
- Knowledge of NHS informatics and business requirements

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

**Desirable**

- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Prince II project management practitioner

## Documents

- [open letter (pdf, 235.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2681)
- [job description (pdf, 282.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460239)
- [person specification (pdf, 282.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10460240)
- [applicants with a disability (pdf, 207.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1983)
- [welcome to bolton nhs foundation trust (pdf, 774.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=3041)

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