IT Development Manager

IT Development Manager

The closing date is 03 March 2026

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.

• 37 hours 30 minutes/week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.

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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.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The post holder will support the Head of IT Service Delivery, and will:

• Direct and effectively manage system development change as required.
• Be responsible for the leadership, management and performance of two teams of developers.
• Lead on any other IT Services initiatives / activities as directed by the Head of IT Service Delivery.
• Be responsible for the development and delivery of a comprehensive portfolio of work comprising of programmes, projects, technical requests and feasibility studies. This includes managing priorities with clients, tracking and reporting.
• Participate in design and discovery sessions for enterprise solutions and complex projects.
• Be capable of serving as a technical lead for enterprise roll-out solutions.
• Ensure that assigned projects are completed to time and budget constraints.
• Ensure testing and quality requirements are met, and support the development of organisational testing standards.
• Ensure the timely and accurate production of status reports for senior management, the Trust Board, as required by Monitor and the Strategic Health Authority.
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