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Job summary

Main area
DDaT
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
193-7570152COR
Employer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Berkshire Hospital
Town
Reading
Salary
Dependant on experience
Closing
18/11/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust logo

Associate Director of Development

NHS AfC: Band 8d

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”

Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements.  The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.  

We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions

We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate

We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live

We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice

At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.

Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us.  We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.  

Job overview

The Associate Director of Digital Development is a key senior member of
the Digital Data & Technology (DDaT) team, adding value for our patients
through improving and developing digital services across the Trust and
wider health and care system.

Main duties of the job

Ensure their teams are an effective component of the Trust’s Digital Data & Technology (DDaT) target operating model, working alongside others,
delivering continuous overall improvement.
Take a leading role in how key aspects of DDaT operates, supporting the
organisation (and the ICS), and enabling innovation and supporting delivery of local, regional and national strategy.
Use expert skills in communications work with external agencies including
BOBICS/NHSE to align the Trust with ICS and National initiatives and
maximise opportunities. The postholder will gain the support of the
DCDIO/CTO and others, to achieve successful collaboration between
DDaT and clinical and operational teams.
Using highly developed project and programme planning skills and
budgeting experience to ensure that DDaT developments deliver within the overall Trust’s vision.
Provide leadership for direct reports and others across DDaT services.
Ensure that essential systems, applications, infrastructure and information are enabled and managed with consistent, expert and professional teams, with appropriate governance, structures, stakeholder buy-in, and supporting technology.

Working for our organisation

Diversity makes us interesting… Inclusion is what will make us outstanding.

Inequality exists and the journey to eliminate it is not easy. Every step we take will be a purposeful step forward to deliver a truly inclusive culture where all our people are enabled to deliver outstanding care, where background is no barrier, and where everyone can be their authentic self and we truly represent our patient community.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where possible. All applicants who have a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the post can opt for a guaranteed interview.

If you need additional help with your application please get in touch by calling the recruitment team on 0118 322 6997 or 0118 322 5342.

Our primary method of communication will be via email. However, if you would prefer to be contacted through a different method, please inform the recruitment team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Oversee team development across the department, with a particular focus on ensuring that members of DDaT are skilled in interpreting and convert vague ideas and desires from clinical area teams into tightly defined and actionable digital changes.
Improve the Trust’s policies and approach to digital QA and testing, better understanding client needs, user behaviour and intended patient outcomes, to deliver a more rigorous testing and QA service resulting in more effective and reliable implementation of digital solutions.
Ensure that DDaT teams balance the needs of the Trust with the opportunities presented by suppliers, with a focus on being responsive to user and care group needs.
Overall responsibility for ensuring effective integration of healthcare data across Trust systems, and the wider health economy, with interface priorities understood and aligned to deliver Trust strategies.
Overall responsibility to ensure that DDaT Development minimises understands and is responsive to future IT demands of the Trust.
Overall responsibility for DDaT Development teams to define and execute management processes for digital development, to control and deliver quality improved IT Services reliably, efficiently and effectively.

Further details in the job description.

Person specification

Education, Qualifications & Training

Essential criteria
  • Masters degree in a relevant discipline with significant experience in a senior managerial and leadership role.
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner or similar project management qualification, with experience of leading large complex projects.
Desirable criteria
  • Managing Successful Programmes or similar programme management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Successful track record of successful delivery of major NHS digital healthcare projects.
  • Managing highly complex competing priorities and delivering on time with restricted resources
  • Effective communication (verbal and written) at Board level and in the wider Health economy to influence & inform.
Desirable criteria
  • Senior digital role in a healthcare setting

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Comprehensive understanding of NHS strategic objectives and drivers.
  • Comprehensive understanding of the NHS structure, organisations & management
  • In depth knowledge of healthcare workflows & underlying business requirements across all components of an acute NHS Trust and wider health sectors
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) Integrated Care System or similar

Other

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates the Trust values
  • Advanced interpersonal skills, with the ability to identify & overcome resistance to change.
  • Highly collaborative with strong & inspirational senior leadership capability

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Florence Nightingale FoundationNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark 2024

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Stuart Cooney
Job title
Chief Technology Officer
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01183225111
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