Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (until 31/03/2027. Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-TDD-P&P-EC2526-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Wellington Place, Leeds
- Town
- Leeds
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/06/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Delivery Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.
We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.
Job overview
NHS England’s Product and Platforms Directorate designs, builds and runs the core infrastructure that connects thousands of digital service providers across the UK health and care system.
This role sits in the Platforms Demographics Domain, supporting delivery of the Single Unique Identifier (SUI) capability and related services to enable safe, consistent identification of children across health and care, with products designed around the needs of professionals, patients and the public.
The post holder will manage delivery of SUI-related products and services, including documentation, assurance and deployment, and may also lead smaller products, services and initiatives within the Demographics Domain, managing dependencies across national platforms and partner organisations such as the Department for Education.
Delivery Managers use agile and lean practices to create the conditions for effective delivery, helping teams learn, improve and innovate through coaching, guidance and practical support.
They ensure teams use the most appropriate agile and lean techniques, apply user-centred iterative design and development, and perform effectively.
They keep teams motivated, collaborative and focused on priority outcomes, while identifying and managing risks, issues, dependencies and blockers, and driving continuous improvement.
Main duties of the job
As a Delivery Manager you will:
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deliver key products and services through multi-disciplinary, user-centred delivery teams
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align the team with the Product Manager and Technical Lead on clear vision, objectives and outcomes (including across dependencies)
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lead with a servant-leader mindset to build a motivated, collaborative and continuously improving team
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apply and tailor Lean and agile methods (e.g., Scrum and Kanban) to fit the context and wider NHS governance
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make work visible using clear, open and transparent ways of working (e.g., flow/Kanban, ceremonies and working agreements)
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contribute to the Digital Services Delivery profession and the Delivery Management community of practice
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Experience using delivery insight (e.g., reviews, retrospectives and health checks) to improve outcomes and team performance
Some of the skills and experience we're looking for:
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Experience delivering digital products, platforms or services using agile principles with multi-disciplinary, user-centred teams
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Experience coaching teams, improving ways of working, and helping teams choose the right delivery approach
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Experience planning and sequencing work, managing capacity, and optimising flow to delivery
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Experience managing and escalating risks, issues and dependencies, and removing blockers
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Experience delivering across the product lifecycle and managing transitions between stages
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Working for our organisation
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and/or assignment brief for further details on the role.
If you like what you have read and think you have the skills and experience we need, then don't delay apply today!
We get lots of applications for our roles and so we sometimes have to close our posts early. Don't miss out!
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is due to short term contract.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters or equivalent qualification or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience delivering digital products, platforms or services using agile principles with multi-disciplinary, user-centred teams
- Experience coaching teams, improving ways of working, and helping teams choose the right delivery approach
- Experience planning and sequencing work, managing capacity, and optimising flow to delivery
- Experience managing and escalating risks, issues and dependencies, and removing blockers
- Experience delivering across the product lifecycle and managing transitions between stages
Skills
Essential criteria
- Skilled in the use of delivery insight (e.g., reviews, retrospectives and health checks) to improve outcomes and team performance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kal Mistry
- Job title
- Lead Delivery Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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