Deputy Director of Digital Delivery

Lead the design, coordination and delivery of transformation activity across the TCC programme, ensuring that strategic objectives are translated into practical implementation approaches and sustainable operational change.

Develop and oversee transformation plans, operating models, adoption strategies and benefits realisation frameworks that support delivery of programme outcomes.

Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders, clinicians, patients, the public, operational teams, regions, suppliers and delivery partners to secure engagement and alignment across the programme.

Identify and manage interdependencies across workstreams, ensuring that transformation activities are coordinated and delivered effectively.

Provide leadership and direction to multidisciplinary teams, creating an environment that supports collaboration, innovation and continuous improvement.

Support programme governance and assurance arrangements, providing clear reporting, analysis and recommendations to enable informed decision-making.

Represent the programme at senior forums and contribute to the successful delivery of TCC objectives through effective transformation leadership, stakeholder engagement and implementation support.

This is an opportunity to help transform the future of the NHS is ideally suited to highly experienced delivery professions, who can demonstrate their ability to turn strategic plans into delivery and lead large scale organisational change.

NHS England's purpose is to create the conditions for an ambitious and high quality NHS. We empower our people and partners to solve problems, provide outstanding care for every patient and improve the nation's health.

Our 7 regional teams work directly with systems and NHS providers across the country. Each region acts as the interface between national strategy and local delivery, overseeing performance, supporting improvement and enabling transformation at scale.

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.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Qualifications

Essential: - Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.

Skills

Experience