IT Development Manager: Sponsorship Available

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Job Summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Education

Essential

  • 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.

Desirable

  • A recognised Project management methodology certification.

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • 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

Desirable

  • Experience of working within the NHS.
  • Understanding of NHS Information requirements.

Skills & Abilities

Essential

  • 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.

Desirable

  • Possess knowledge of HL7
  • Possess knowledge of SharePoint
  • Possess knowledge of CMS systems
  • Possess knowledge of Cloud Hosting
  • Possess knowledge of Cerner Millennium

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 03 March 2026

To apply for this job please visit apps.trac.jobs.