Job vacancy: Delivery Manager/Scrum Master, Public Health Wales NHS Trust, Cardiff

Job summary

Main area: Delivery Manager/Scrum Master
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 028-AC136-0625-A

Employer: Public Health Wales NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Capital Quarter 2
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/07/2025 23:59
Interview date: 31/07/2025

Delivery Manager/Scrum Master

Band 7

Welcome to Public Health Wales, the national public health organisation for Wales

Our vision is Working to achieve a healthier future for Wales

To find out more visit Public Health Wales and watch this video about our Strategic Plan

Working together, with trust and respect, to make a difference

Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English. To support our all Wales service, we particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This is a unique opportunity to shape how agile delivery is embedded across Public Health Wales. As a Delivery Manager / Scrum Master, you’ll be at the forefront of our digital and data transformation—guiding teams, influencing culture, and ensuring that delivery is both strategic and sustainable.

You’ll wear two hats:
As a Delivery Manager, you’ll take ownership of delivery planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagement—ensuring that projects stay on track and deliver real value.

As a Scrum Master, you’ll coach agile teams, facilitate ceremonies, and help teams continuously improve how they work.

This dual role is ideal for someone who thrives in complexity, enjoys working across boundaries, and is passionate about making agile work in the real world.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Driving Agile Maturity: You’ll help teams adopt and adapt agile practices that suit their context—whether that’s Scrum, Kanban, or a hybrid approach. You’ll support product owners in shaping backlogs and help teams stay focused on delivering value.

Leading Delivery: You’ll manage delivery timelines, dependencies, and risks across a portfolio of digital and data initiatives. You’ll ensure that delivery is transparent, well-governed, and aligned with organisational priorities.

Building Relationships: You’ll work closely with senior leaders, service managers, and technical teams—translating between business needs and digital solutions. You’ll be a trusted advisor who brings clarity and confidence to complex programmes.

Championing Change: You’ll support change management efforts, helping teams and stakeholders navigate new ways of working. You’ll promote agile thinking through communities of practice, show-and-tells, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

Coaching and Mentoring: You’ll foster a culture of learning and improvement—coaching individuals and teams to build confidence, autonomy, and resilience. You’ll also line manage staff and contribute to the ongoing development of the business operations team.

Ensuring Accountability: You’ll track progress, manage budgets, and ensure that delivery is underpinned by robust documentation and governance. You’ll help ensure that our digital transformation is not only ambitious—but also safe, inclusive, and sustainable.

This role is ideal for someone who is equally confident facilitating agile teams and navigating complex delivery landscapes—someone who can zoom in to resolve blockers at the team level and zoom out to align delivery with broader organisational goals.

You’ll be joining a supportive Directorate, that values curiosity, collaboration, and impact.

The Job Description and Personal Specification provide full details.

For further details contact:

Name Hilary Parsons

Job title Governance & General Manager

Email address [email protected]

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person specification

Qualification and Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Level 7 qualification / Masters or equivalent demonstrable working experience
• Project Management qualification
• Agile Certified Practitioner
• Certification in Scrum Master or equivalent.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven demonstrable knowledge of digital and data governance practices within a healthcare setting.
• Strong background in leading digital transformation projects using agile methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban, or Lean.
• Significant experience working as a Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, or in a similar agile delivery role within a digital or data-focused environment.
• Extensive experience in managing end-to-end delivery processes, including project initiation, planning, execution, and post-delivery review.
• Experience working with cross-functional, distributed teams and managing projects with varying levels of complexity.
• Experience with project management tools and maintaining project documentation to support project governance.
• Experience in line management, with the ability to coach, mentor, and provide leadership to teams.
• Experience of managing multiple priorities and deadlines, ensuring delivery targets are met without compromising quality.
• Experience of managing budgets including external funding and procurement processes.
• Experience of generating plans, that are multi layered in various formats, including easy read. • Experience of people management
• Full understanding of the Principles of Data Protection, Information Asset management, including completing of DPIA’s and other impact assessments or data sharing agreements.
• Risk Management experience.
• Experience of people management

Skills & Atributes

Essential criteria

• Proven ability to translate complex technical language into clear, non-technical terms for diverse audiences, including senior leaders and business stakeholders.
• Highly developed communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Highly developed coaching skills, with the ability to gain trust, deploy empathy, establish goals and support teams and individuals to achieve them.
• Strong problem-solving abilities and the capacity to navigate ambiguity, ensuring project success in fast-paced and dynamic environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills including presentation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of people from different backgrounds at all levels of seniority.
• Document management using SharePoint
• Proficient in the use of standard Microsoft software, such as Outlook, Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and SharePoint.
• Ability to work under pressure whilst meeting deadlines and adapt to changes in demand and workload.
• Strong problem solving skills.
• Able to work autonomously.

Desirable criteria

• Welsh Language Skills

Other

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the needs of the service

Public Health Wales, reserves the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage early applications.

Priority is given to staff awaiting redeployment. We therefore reserve the right to withdraw this advert at any stage.

If you have a disability and have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application process, please contact [email protected]

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To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert, providing clear evidence and examples to demonstrate how you meet each requirement.

Visa Sponsorship Eligibility

If you require sponsorship under the Skilled Worker or Health and Care Visa routes, please ensure you self‑assess your eligibility for sponsorship for this role before applying.
Check the Skilled Worker visa guidance or Health and Care visa guidance for details on job eligibility, salary, English language, and sponsorship requirements.

If you are successful and short listed for interview you will be contacted by email using the address with which you registered. Please ensure you check your email account regularly.

We are committed to fair, transparent recruitment and believe in equality of opportunity in our workplace and will not tolerate discrimination on grounds of age, disability, gender identity, religion or belief, race or nationality, marriage or civil partnership status, sex, sexual orientation, working pattern, caring responsibilities, trade union activity or political beliefs – or on any other grounds. We welcome applications from individuals seeking flexible working arrangements.

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

The salary scale shown is for a full-time member of staff, with the amount being adjusted pro rata for those working less than 37.5 hours per week.

The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2025/2026 and will be implemented in August 2025 with arrears backdated to 1st April 2025 where applicable.

In general, anyone joining our Trust who has not previously worked in the NHS will, by default, start on the first point of the advertised pay band. Pay progression will then be determined by annual Performance and Development Reviews in accordance with the NHS Wales Pay Progression Policy. An application for Incremental Credit may be considered, but can only be awarded based on evidenced, reckonable service and/or equivalent, relevant experience.