Job vacancy: Digital Delivery Manager, Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, Reading

Job summary

Main area: DDaT
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (3 days per week minimum office attendance)
Job ref: 193-8162604CORB8a-DDM

Employer: Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Town: Reading
Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 02/09/2026 23:59

Digital Delivery Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8a

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.

Please note: all vacancies automatically close when 50 applications have been received.

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 criteria

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 criteria

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 criteria

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 bringing together and managing people within a project management (matrix) structure.
Experience of using Agile project management software (e.g. Jira, Trello, etc.)

Desirable criteria

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 criteria

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 criteria

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

We are an approved sponsoring organisation. Applications will be considered from applicants requiring sponsorship alongside all other applications. Please be aware, not all roles are eligible for sponsorship. You can review the list of eligible role and requirements on the government website.

Staff Benefits

Flexible working opportunities and a strong emphasis on your work, life balance
Annual leave – 27 days for new starters, plus bank holidays. Increasing to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years NHS service. Pro rata for part time staff
NHS pension scheme
Employee Assistance Programme
Money Advice Service
Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave for eligible staff
On-site nursery (based at RBH)
Full educational library services
Cycle to work scheme, lockable storage for cycles
Bus to work scheme
Excellent rail and bus links
A huge range of Health Service Discounts at hundreds of big brands from holidays to gadgets and restaurants to retail.

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Appointment to any position is conditional on the satisfactory completion of the core NHS Employment Checks Standards. Information disclosed in your application will be checked and any offer of appointment may be withdrawn if you knowingly withhold information or provide false or misleading information. All new appointments to the Trust, with the exception of executive positions, are subject to a 6 month probationary period.

The Trust may close any vacancy prior to the advertised closing date due to the high level of responses we receive for some of our vacancies.

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is committed to improving the health of its staff, patients and the wider community by providing a smoke free environment. A smoke free policy is in operation and smoking is not permitted on any of the Trust’s sites.

The Trust is also committed to safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults and requires all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children, young people and vulnerable adults.