Job summary
- Main area
- Delivery Management
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (until 31 October 2026 - Secondment only for current NHS employees)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-PPL-16905-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any NHS England Office
- Town
- Nationally
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Oriel Delivery Manager
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. 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. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
To be considered for this role you will need to have demonstrable agile project or delivery management experience, preferably in the recruitment field.
Oriel is the national platform used to deliver recruitment to Medical, Dental, Pharmacy and Healthcare Science training programmes across the UK.
The current service supports the digital tools and associated processes connected to the recruitment onto training programmes of several professions. This is recognised as a critical service due to its role in supporting the future NHS workforce.
The team have recently completed a Discovery and Alpha as they prepare to deliver a new national recruitment service over the next two to three years.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Main duties of the job
This role will support the delivery of the live service ensuring continuous service provision in national recruitment including ‘business as usual’ activity as well as implementation of business critical changes associated with the introduction of new policy.
In addition to this, the post-holder will support the transition to a new service and will contribute to the next phase of this work including procurement activity and progressing to Beta stage and beyond.
The post-holder will work with the product / service team, stakeholders, users and other third parties to plan and manage delivery in line with good practice, internal compliance and governance, and the Service Standard.
We are aligning our job roles to the DDAT capability framework - https://ddat-capability-framework.service.gov.uk/role/delivery-manager
Working for our organisation
Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.
Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
We lead the NHS in England by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money
Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.
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 recruitment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As the Oriel Delivery Manager, you will drive the delivery and development of the service;
- You will build, motivate and support the product team ensuring that they are focused, responsive and delivering value
- You will have a clear understanding of delivery methods and practices
- You will use a range of agile methodologies to deliver products and services in an iterative way removing obstacles and blockers which hinder delivery progress
- You will be confident in working with end-users to identify business needs in the form of user stories and, in turn, work with the development team to iteratively achieve high quality outcomes that are user-centred
- You will use your knowledge of user-centred design and the GDS Service Standard to drive transformation and improve products and services.
- You will work closely with stakeholders, breaking down barriers and planning at a high level, and at a detailed level where necessary
- You will work across product teams and functions, as well as with third party organisations, especially when managing shared dependencies and goals
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is due to covering for a vacancy.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
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
- Educated to post graduate level or equivalent level of knowledge of working at a similar level in specialist area
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of continued professional development (i.e. Agile)
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive knowledge of project / delivery principles
- Evidence of clear understanding of digital service lifecycle management i.e. discovery to live, GDS Service Standard etc.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of agile project or delivery management
- Experience of successfully planning, managing and delivering projects (ideally digital) including scheduling phases, managing milestones and monitoring risk
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alice Gagg
- Job title
- Oriel Senior Product Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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