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The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
IT Development Manager
Accepting applications until: 03-Mar-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 03-Mar-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Regent Point
- Tref
- 317 Regent Point
- Cod post
- NE3 3HD
- Major / Minor Region
- Tyne and Wear
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Oriau
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Cyflog
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (Band 8a)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- 317 IT - Systems Development
- Dyddiad y cyfweliad
- 13/03/2026
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.
With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.
As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
The IT Development Manager role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to a service that is delivering meaningful, positive change for our users and patients. You will lead a multi‑disciplinary team responsible for developing and maintaining digital products and services that enhance and support the Trust’s digital estate.
As the key technical leadership role within the service, you will set the strategic direction for software development, ensuring that team members are well led, professionally supported, and empowered to deliver high‑quality outcomes. You will be accountable for ensuring that all digital solutions are robust, secure, scalable, and aligned to user needs and organisational priorities.
You will work closely with Programme Management, Digital Health, and IT Service Delivery teams to provide strategic technical input, assurance, and guidance helping to shape the future of digital services across the Trust.
- Interview date: 13 March 2026
- 37 hours 30 minutes/week
- You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
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The post holder will be required to act as IT Development Manager and have the following responsibilities.
- Advise developers in design of new applications by providing expertise on systems capabilities and constraints
- Lead technical implementation and development efforts on large, highly complex projects
- Provide expert technical advice and counsel to management and to less experienced developers
- Work outside immediate discipline to coordinate a group of people in troubleshooting a wide-scale problems across several areas or disciplines to solve major system outages with high impact or visibility
- Identify systems integration required to support business application needs.
- Assess change implementation options, benefits and risks, and recommends most appropriate direction
- Develop disaster recovery policies
- Set up the most complex development environments
- Understanding of Operating Systems (Unix and Windows) for multiple critical applications
- Define project scope, objectives, and client requirements
- Create project schedule, cost/financial plan, risk mitigation plan, communications plan, quality plan, change control plan, and resource plan to meet project goals within the project scope, timeline, and budget
- Create a participative, collaborative work environment
- Mentor and coach for development team members
- Balance development of personnel needs with requirements of engagement
- Identify and communicate follow-on opportunities and implications of current work.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:
- Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
- Freeman Hospital
- Newcastle Dental Hospital
- Cramlington Manor Walks
- Urgent treatment centres
- Newcastle Fertility Centre
- Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
- Northern Genetics Service
These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.
We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.
For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
The post holder will support the Head of IT Service Delivery, and will:
- Direct and effectively manage system development change as required.
- Be responsible for the leadership, management and performance of two teams of developers.
- Lead on any other IT Services initiatives / activities as directed by the Head of IT Service Delivery.
- Be responsible for the development and delivery of a comprehensive portfolio of work comprising of programmes, projects, technical requests and feasibility studies. This includes managing priorities with clients, tracking and reporting.
- Participate in design and discovery sessions for enterprise solutions and complex projects.
- Be capable of serving as a technical lead for enterprise roll-out solutions.
- Ensure that assigned projects are completed to time and budget constraints.
- Ensure testing and quality requirements are met, and support the development of organisational testing standards.
- Ensure the timely and accurate production of status reports for senior management, the Trust Board, as required by Monitor and the Strategic Health Authority.
- Work with Trust staff, partners and vendors to deploy production applications.
- Formally document, present and organise necessary design and documentation for complex integration or process change.
- Develop business cases where required to gain financial approval for system infrastructure or process change.
- Maintain a register of development activity risks and issues, including mitigation plans. Ensuring that these are escalated and acted upon effectively.
- Provide advice / guidance on development related processes and controls, building an improved organisational understanding and capability.
- Work with vendor/partner and analysts to design a go live plan for implementation of systems taking into consideration data, timing and current business processes. Address any data issues such as back-loading or converting data as needed.
- Roll out systems with minimal interruption to users and the Trust.
- Provide ongoing troubleshooting, support and maintenance of developed systems, including potential 24/7 on call coverage.
- Deputise for the Head of IT Service Delivery as required.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent level of qualification in a relevant area; or have significant previous experience, some of which must have been at an equivalent management level.
Meini prawf dymunol
- A recognised Project management methodology certification.
Knowledge & Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Extensive experience in taking a lead role in the design and development of enterprise level software solutions.
- Experience of providing support to enterprise level applications
- Experience in translating business requirements into technical specifications.
- Experience in managing technical staff of various levels.
- Experience of managing a varied workload of development projects.
- Possess a wide range of advanced technical knowledge of technology and languages (including .NET (C# and VB.NET), ASP.NET, JavaScript (and libraries such as knockout and JQuery), Microsoft SQL Server, HTML / CSS, Microsoft Access / Excel, IIS)
- Version Control Software, specifically MS TFS
Meini prawf dymunol
- Experience of working within the NHS.
- Understanding of NHS Information requirements.
Skills & Abilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Ability to communicate verbally and in writing both clearly and concisely.
- Ability to analyse and resolve complex IT issues.
- Ability to research and evaluate new technologies and continually learn new skills.
- Ability to train, mentor and supervise development staff.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Possess knowledge of HL7
- Possess knowledge of SharePoint
- Possess knowledge of CMS systems
- Possess knowledge of Cloud Hosting
- Possess knowledge of Cerner Millennium
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Sanjay Basra
- Teitl y swydd
- Head of IT Service Delivery
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 0191 28 24741
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