Head of Delivery
NHS England
National, SE1 8UG
Salary
£94,356 to £108,814
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
6 September 2026
6 days left
Job description
Data & Analytics is central to delivering the NHS 10-Year Health Plan, overseeing national programmes with investment exceeding £1.5 billion. This is ...
- You will have the opportunity to lead the delivery of nationally significant products and services that directly improve patient outcomes and support frontline care. You will:o Lead and inspire high-performing multidisciplinary teams to deliver complex national digital services safely, effectively and at pace.
- Shape and drive delivery across multiple workstreams, establishing robust governance, planning, risk management and performance reporting.
- Remove barriers to progress, facilitate informed decision-making and ensure strong alignment across technical, clinical, operational and policy stakeholders.
- Champion agile and continuous improvement approaches, helping teams deliver measurable outcomes, benefits and value for patients, clinicians and the wider health and care system.
- Build delivery capability and influence strategic decisions within one of the UK's largest and most impactful digital transformation programmes.These roles are ideal for experienced delivery professionals with a strong track record of leading complex digital, data or technology programmes within multidisciplinary environments. You will be someone who thrives on collaboration, can confidently navigate ambiguity and complexity, and excels at building relationships across a broad range of stakeholders.Experience/ knowledge of event-based architecture or target data architecture would be highly advantageous, but it is not essential.
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.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to master's level or equivalent qualification/delivery experience.
Knowledge
Essential
- Strong understanding of the variety of disciplines involved in digital delivery e.g. engineering, service design, product management, performance analysis and user research developed through working in a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable
- Strong knowledge of target data architecture, data standards, data models, data flows, interoperability, integration patterns and digital service delivery in complex, regulated environments.
- Strong knowledge of event-based architecture, interoperability, integration patterns, APIs, data flows and digital service delivery in complex, regulated environments.
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of establishing and operating portfolio governance to facilitate delivery, risk management, assurance and stakeholder involvement.
Skills
Essential
- Proven ability and supporting experience of successfully delivering a portfolio of digital products and services within a large complex environment and across organisational boundaries involving multi-disciplinary teams.
Desirable
- Proven ability to align delivery activity across architecture, engineering, product, clinical, operational, policy and commercial stakeholders to ensure event-based services are delivered against agreed outcomes, standards, dependencies and timescales.
How to apply
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Provenance
Source
NHS Jobs
First seen
17 August 2026
Last checked
19 August 2026
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