# Digital Delivery Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/digital-delivery-manager/47997ad1-e589-44dc-8366-308ac024bf67 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/digital-delivery-manager/47997ad1-e589-44dc-8366-308ac024bf67.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Manager and corporate - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £57,528 - £64,750 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (3 days per week minimum office attendance) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-31T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-20T10:20:46.918Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Berkshire/Reading/Royal_Berkshire_NHS_Foundation_Trust/DDaT/DDaT-v8162604 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8162604?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Delivery Manager is a key role in the delivery of our digital strategy, shaping and managing high-profile, complex digital transformation projects and programmes. The role is crucial for creating and maintaining focus, enthusiasm and momentum for their defined project areas, working with all teams within the Trust and the ICB. The postholder will be expected to manage project progress and expenditure, liaising with key stakeholders. This includes ensuring alignment with financial planning and the capital programme and the postholder will be expected to be a lead contributor in funding bids and support the development of business cases to exploit external funding opportunities. The role involves working closely with colleagues in varying roles and seniority across the Trust, including clinicians and executive directors as well as the ICB. The postholder will also lead internal squads using Agile project management methods (e.g. Scrum and Kanban). The postholder will be an expert at digital transformation, bringing a creative mindset to help design programmes which transform the way our staff work. They will be a specialist in Agile project management, comfortable with working within PMO structures, and great at delivering challenging data and information to various members of staff. The postholder will demonstrate excellent leadership and problem-solving skills, negotiation and facilitation skills. ### Main duties of the job - Creatively shape and manage large digital transformation programmes for the Trust, ensuring that transformational aims and deliverables are achieved, within a specified time frame, within budget and that the programme organisation is consistent with the complexity of the project. - Build and maintain multi-disciplinary DDAT delivery teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well, and focused on what is most important to delivery - Use specialist knowledge, consultancy skills and experience to advise on DDAT solutions and guide staff on a course of action. - Coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Main Responsibilities - To manage a wide range of DDAT projects ensuring that the deliverables are produced to the required quality, within a specified time frame, within budget and that the project organisation is consistent with the complexity of the project. - To build and maintain multi-disciplinary DDAT delivery teams, ensuring they are motivated, collaborating and working well, and focused on what is most important to delivery - To coach and mentor both team members and others to apply the most appropriate Agile and Lean tools and techniques - Use specialist knowledge, consultancy skills and experience to advise on DDAT solutions and guide staff on a course of action. - To diagnose complex DDAT problems by analysing information and data in order to recommend a solution. - To develop, maintain and monitor plans for projects, tailoring the plans in accordance with the complexity of the project. - To develop business cases for securing project funding using experience to ensure that costs for all impacted departments and/or services are identified. - To follow Trust Standing Financial Instructions. - To manage the budget during the course of the project/s. - To use specialist knowledge for developing specifications (Output Based Specifications) where a need for an DDAT solution is identified. This will involve significant analytical work. - To develop appropriate communication plans and communicate at all levels within the organisation. - To facilitate or contribute to post implementation reviews. - To document the lessons learned from the implementations and communicate these to a wide range of staff (internal and external) either by presentation or formal report. - To use specialist knowledge to ensure that DDAT implementations are carried out in accordance with change management best practice. - For more details please see attached job description. ## Person Specification ### Education **Essential** - Educated to Masters Level or equivalent experience / qualifications - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development - Professional Scrum Master (PSM) I / AgilePM / Lean Six Sigma, or similar, or equivalent practical experience - Change management training **Desirable** - Professional Scrum Master (PSM) II / Professional Agile Leadership or similar advanced project management qualification - Managing successful programmes (MSP) or ITIL certification - Process redesign training ### Experience **Essential** - Practical experience of designing and delivering digital transformation projects, ideally in the NHS or wider UK public sector - Practical experience delivering projects using an Agile Scrum or Kanban methodology - Experience of working independently and in a team orientated collaborative environment - Experience of budget management and forecasting or familiarity with project budget management and processes. - Experience of bringing together and managing people within a project management (matrix) structure. - Experience of using Agile project management software (e.g. Jira, Trello, etc.) **Desirable** - Experience acting as the point of contact for contracted suppliers - Change management experience with the ability to take a lead business change specialist role in digital projects - Examples of leading on change management/service improvement within the NHS and/or social care. - Examples of leading cross organisation team projects including senior clinical staff. ### Skills and Knowledge **Essential** - Able to maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders. - Able to communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders and secure cooperation with colleagues, verbally and in writing. - Able to present complex information to staff with limited technical knowledge, and differing levels of understanding and seniority. - Ability to provide information reporting to a high standard. - Able to work independently with little supervision and be responsible for own workload, assuring agreed objectives are met. - Able to work under pressure with externally defined schedules, changing priorities and a complex and political agenda. - Ability to identify areas for collaborative working where there may be resistance to change. - Ability to compare and select the most appropriate delivery methods and processes - Ability to help teams measure, evaluate and visualise outcomes - Ability to break down and define a programme from high-level aims **Desirable** - Knowledge of the GDS or NHS Service Standard - In depth knowledge of current NHS DDAT strategies, structures and processes - Knowledge of benefits management as it applies to large digital transformation projects ## Documents - [staff benefits (pdf, 139.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=603) - [relocation policy (pdf, 572.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1764) - [behaviours framework 2022 (pdf, 2.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2970) - [probation policy & procedure (pdf, 559.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1640) - [leadership behaviours framework (pdf, 1.0mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2718) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 401.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10463655) ## 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.