Job summary
- Main area
- Technology
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 396-7791799-DE-DK
- Employer
- Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- KRFT
- Town
- Kingston
- Salary
- £70,396 - £80,837 Pro rata, pa, incl. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Digital Innovations Manager
Band 8b
Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
The Digital Innovations Manager leads the design, development and delivery of complex technical innovation projects across the Trust, providing specialist technical expertise and strategic guidance to support digital transformation. The role requires the ability to evaluate emerging technologies, manage multi‑disciplinary technical teams, and influence senior stakeholders while ensuring alignment with digital strategy and infrastructure standards. The postholder also oversees programming, cloud development, and integration activities, ensuring new solutions are safe, effective, and scalable.
Main duties of the job
- To lead and manage input, technical development and delivery for DDaT projects ensuring the strategic aims and objectives of the process are achieved, and that this complies with trust standards and policies
- Responsible for identifying and assessing potential new technologies and processes, and ensuring compliance and alignment against trust priorities and the requirements of the NHS Long term Plan
- Provides specialised technical knowledge and guidance to innovations team to support the development of database, programming and integration developments.
- Provides leadership to the innovations team of database developers, programmers and integrations specialists
- Responsible for policy development and implementation for database management, programming and integration services and ensuring quality by appropriate QA and compliance by regular audit.
- Leads on the management of the annual innovations and projects budget, monitor and report on service and financial performance.
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Working for our organisation
Development and staff wellbeing
Your growth and personal happiness matters to us. After all, we can’t expect the best from you if we don’t invest in your development and nurture your wellbeing. From the moment you join us, we’re committed to fostering your professional and personal development within a supportive, empowering environment. Whether you’re just starting your career or looking to advance further, we provide you with the tools and opportunities you need to succeed. We actively support colleagues to take part in research, quality improvement and innovation, whatever their role or level in the organisation.
To support your wellbeing, we offer an extensive range of resources, including an on-site staff nursery at Kingston Hospital, wellbeing practitioners, regular wellbeing classes, dedicated staff physiotherapist, comprehensive occupational health services, 24/7 employee assistance programme, and a range of other support and activities.
We also take every opportunity to thank and recognise the work our teams do, through weekly ‘shoutouts’ and patient feedback, monthly and annual awards.
Wherever you work across our organisation, we look forward to welcoming you.
At KRFT we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
***Please see the attached supporting document/s which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification***
NB: ensure your supporting statement aligns with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a systems development and maintenance function ideally including web authoring and systems implementation or integration of diverse software systems
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in delivering complex healthcare-related improvement projects and programmes, and working alongside senior clinical and operational professionals
Experience
Essential criteria
- Strong line‑management capability with a focus on performance, coaching, and enabling teams to excel in technical and innovative environments
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- James Wright
- Job title
- Chief Technology Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8546 7711
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