Deputy Director of Digital DeliveryNHS
Job summary
Data and Analytics is central to delivering the NHS 10 Year Health Plan, leading national programmes worth £1.5 billion. This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of the NHS and help drive improvements in health and care services for millions of people.
As Deputy Director of Delivery, you will lead transformation activity across the Transforming and Connecting Care (TCC) programme, working with architects, engineers, clinicians, product teams and policy colleagues to address complex technology and data challenges.
TCC aims to improve the sharing of health and care information through the development of a Single Patient Record, enabling secure access to patient records across organisational boundaries. The programme will support faster, safer and more integrated care for patients and clinicians.
Reporting to the Programme Director, you will translate strategic objectives into delivery plans, operating models, adoption approaches and measurable outcomes. You will provide leadership across a complex portfolio, ensuring alignment between policy, operational, clinical, digital and delivery workstreams.
Working with national, regional and local stakeholders, you will drive organisational change, implementation and benefits realisation, ensuring transformation activity delivers sustainable improvements across the health and care system. This role requires an experienced leader able to operate effectively in a complex, high-profile and politically sensitive environment.
Main duties of the job
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.
Job description
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, and person specification in the attached Job Description . Please ensure your supporting statement includes demonstratable evidence and specific examples on how you meet the criteria for each of the key skills specified. This will be used in both the shortlisting and interview processes.
About us
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.