Senior Digital Solutions Delivery Engineer – Digital Solutions: Sponsorship Available

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Job summary

There is an opportunity to join the Digital Systems Team as a Senior Digital Solutions Delivery Engineer.

This is a key role in providing the overall day to day and operational management of clinical systems that the team support. The role encompasses providing leadership on system interfaces and front end support to ensure systems are operational with minimal interruption. The Senior Digital Solutions Delivery Engineer will ensure that staff members have the appropriate training to enable them to work autonomously. This role will ensure that the interfaces are proactively monitored to provide customer/partner assurance. Extensive experience in the use of clinical system support/staff management/Interface experience is required for this post.

Please note, this job description is pending AfC approval.

Main duties of the job

This role provides technical level leadership and includes a service delivery and operational management skillset in line with ITIL best practices to ensure efficient & effective delivery to our customers.

Developing services aligned with the needs of the business and its customers through proactively managing the relationship with all parties to create and maintain a client focused service across the Mid Mersey Digital Alliance partners.

You will be responsible for high quality output and development of detailed plans ensuring that technical changes are delivered to time and cost budgets.

Working for your organisation

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is the only acute Trust in Cheshire and Merseyside, and one of the few in the entire country, to achieve the title of OUTSTANDING, rated by the Care Quality Commission.

We provide a full range of acute adult services to our local population of circa 600,000 and provide tertiary services across a much wider area in the North West, North Wales and Isle of Man. We are a Major Trauma Unit and the Mersey Regional Burns Unit.

Our ‘5 Star Patient Care’ strategy is at the heart of all that we do; supporting our vision to provide world class services for all our patients by getting it right for every patient, every time.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Post Graduate degree or equivalent experience
  • Integration Qualifications

Desirable

  • Relevant Degree
  • ITIL qualification
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
  • Prince 2 Project Management

Knowledge & Experience

Essential

  • Extensive knowledge and experience of successfully managing and designing large complex Enterprise ICT systems/interfaces and networks
  • Extensive knowledge and experience of managing teams of technical staff in an ICT department or similar
  • Ability to demonstrate success in managing large complex ICT environments
  • Extensive experience of negotiating with suppliers and third parties at all levels

Skills

Essential

  • Strong Communication and Presentation skills
  • Substantial technical ability and knowledge concerning ICT infrastructure and clinical systems
  • Ability to produce clear and comprehensive written reports

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: 23 August 2026

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