Job summary
- Main area
- Digital
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8d
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 241-428CD-26
- Employer
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Bolton
- Salary
- £94,356 - £108,814 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Deputy Director of Digital
NHS AfC: Band 8d
Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Deputy Director of Digital to support the delivery of our ambitious digital transformation programme.
Working closely with the Director of Digital, you will provide senior leadership across digital services, ensuring the Trust continues to modernise its technology, optimise digital systems, and embed innovation across clinical and operational services.
This is a pivotal leadership role, contributing to both Trust-wide transformation and Greater Manchester digital collaboration.
Main duties of the job
Working as a key member of the senior leadership team, you will support the Director of Digital in driving organisational change, improving service delivery, and ensuring that digital, data, and technology capabilities enable better outcomes for stakeholders.
This role requires a collaborative and ambitious leader who can operate at both strategic and operational levels, build strong partnerships across the organisation, and champion innovation while ensuring robust governance, security, and value for money.
The post holder will support the development and delivery of Bolton FT’s Digital Strategy, aligned with NHS England and Greater Manchester ICS priorities
Working for our organisation
We have a long and proud history of caring for generations of local people and can trace our roots all the way back to 1814 with the first hospital in Bolton – the Bolton Dispensary in the town centre.
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was formed in 2008 and, in 2011, we became an integrated provider with community health services joining the trust. Covering a catchment area that also incorporates parts of Bury, Wigan and Salford, we deliver hospital and community based services from the Royal Bolton Hospital in Farnworth and from 20 health centres across Bolton, to a catchment population of 310,000+ people.
The Royal Bolton Hospital is a major hub within Greater Manchester for women’s and children’s services and is the busiest single ambulance-receiving site in Greater Manchester. We’re structured in four clinical divisions – Community Services, Families and Diagnostics, Medicine, and Surgery and are led by a Board of Directors. As an NHS Foundation Trust we’re accountable to our members and have a Council of Governors to represent the views of patients, public, staff and partners.
Buildings, names and models of care have changed over the centuries, but one thing has remained constant and is prevalent among our 6,718 staff members: the enduring commitment to providing the best health and care for the people of Bolton.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information and detailed Job description and person specification please see attached documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Prince II project management practitioner
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive senior experience in IM&T / Informatics
- Experience of managing large scale informatics programmes.
- Experience in deploying / supporting: EPR/ clinical Applications and patient administration systems
- Understanding of risk management and mitigation
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working at or very close to Board level
- Experience managing NHS informatics programmes
- Knowledge of NHS informatics and business requirements
Skills
Essential criteria
- Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups.
- Negotiate on difficult and very complex and detailed issues
- Able to form judgements and make autonomous decisions guided by policies and procedures
- Strong leadership qualities and effective management skills
- The ability to communicate contentious information to an audience that may not be receptive
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive knowledge of specialist informatics areas,
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health, the GMHSCP and individual provider and commissioning organisations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Brett Walmsley
- Job title
- Director of Digital
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- (01204) 390390
- Additional information
Contact telephone number 01204 390 390 (internal ext.147658)
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