Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) is recruiting a NMGH New Hospital Digital Design & Coordination Lead to support the digital workstream of the North Manchester General Hospital (NMGH) Redevelopment Programme.
This is a senior leadership opportunity within a major healthcare transformation programme, supporting the development of future-ready digital infrastructure, intelligent hospital capabilities and technology-enabled healthcare services in North Manchester.
Job Details
- Job title: NMGH New Hospital Digital Design & Coordination Lead
- Employer: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
- Location: North Manchester General Hospital, Delaunays Road, Crumpsall, Manchester, M8 5RB
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Band: 8c
- Salary: £79,504 to £91,609 per annum, pro rata
- Pay scheme: Agenda for Change
- Reference: 349-COR-8261146-RL4
- Date posted: 22 September 2026
- Closing date: 19 October 2026
- Sponsorship: Skilled Worker sponsorship applicants welcome
About the Role
The successful candidate will play a key role in the NMGH New Hospital Project, specifically within its Digital Workstream.
The role will contribute to the design and implementation of future-ready healthcare infrastructure aligned with national standards and intelligent hospital design principles.
Key areas include:
- Digital systems that empower patients through accessible and interoperable technology
- Smart buildings with embedded digital infrastructure
- Real-time data, automation and predictive maintenance
- Technology that improves clinical efficiency and patient-focused decision-making
- Integrated healthcare across physical and virtual environments
The position will involve working at a senior level across complex programmes, engaging with Executive and Clinical Leaders and helping deliver strategic transformation across the Trust.
Key Responsibilities
The role will involve:
- Leading and coordinating complex digital design and transformation activities
- Supporting delivery of the Digital Workstream for the NMGH New Hospital Project
- Planning and managing complex programmes and projects
- Managing risks, benefits and delivery plans
- Supporting large-scale organisational change
- Engaging and influencing a wide range of stakeholders
- Working collaboratively across organisational and professional boundaries
- Analysing complex information and developing practical options and solutions
- Monitoring project performance and reporting progress
- Supporting strategic decision-making through high-quality analysis and reporting
- Leading and developing teams to deliver successful outcomes
- Working with stakeholders including Executive Directors, senior clinicians and independent contractors
- Holding teams and partners to account for agreed targets and outcomes
- Contributing to the development and implementation of highly complex projects
Requirements / Person Specification
Candidates should demonstrate substantial senior-level programme and project management experience, particularly within healthcare or an equivalent complex environment.
Essential qualifications include:
- Master’s degree and/or equivalent job-related management experience
- Formal project management qualification, such as PRINCE2 and/or Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
Essential experience includes:
- Extensive project or programme management experience, including planning, risk management and benefits realisation
- Senior-level experience within an NHS acute trust or equivalent healthcare environment
- Experience managing large-scale change projects
- Demonstrable success delivering complex organisational change
- Experience engaging with a wide range of stakeholders
- Collaborative and partnership working across organisations
- Strategic thinking and the ability to anticipate and resolve complex problems
- Financial awareness and business acumen
- Experience analysing and presenting complex data
Desirable experience includes:
- Experience working within an acute hospital setting
- Partnership working across organisational boundaries
- Developing complex business cases
Key Skills
Applicants should demonstrate:
- Knowledge of NHS and regional healthcare policy, performance and management systems
- Strong understanding of current NHS issues and NHS values
- Excellent planning and organisational skills across multiple complex projects
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to interpret complex data and adapt plans to changing circumstances
- Creative and flexible approaches to difficult problems
- Highly developed leadership and team-management skills
- Ability to deliver results through teams, including where there is no direct line-management responsibility
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
- Excellent communication skills, including communicating complex information in difficult situations
- Ability to prepare high-quality reports and deliver persuasive presentations to senior stakeholders
- Ability to manage performance and hold others accountable
- Resilience and emotional awareness when dealing with complex and demanding situations
- Commitment to openness, honesty, inclusiveness and high leadership standards
- Advanced IT skills, including Excel, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint and Word
Salary & Benefits
The position is offered at NHS Agenda for Change Band 8c, with a salary of:
£79,504 to £91,609 per annum, pro rata.
MFT also highlights professional development, an inclusive working environment and opportunities to contribute to major Trust-wide transformation programmes.
Working Pattern
This is a permanent, full-time position based at North Manchester General Hospital, Manchester.
Visa / Right-to-Work
Skilled Worker sponsorship is available for eligible applicants.
The NHS Jobs advert specifically states that applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside other applications.
Candidates requiring sponsorship should ensure they meet the relevant UK immigration and role eligibility requirements before applying.
The vacancy also notes that certain Skilled Worker applicants may need to provide criminal record certificates covering countries where they have lived for the required period.
Application / Selection Process
Candidates interested in this senior NHS digital transformation role should review the full Job Description and Person Specification before applying.
MFT advises applicants to use its Inside MFT Your Candidate Place, which provides information about the Trust, benefits, application guidance and recruitment process.
Applications should be submitted through NHS Jobs.
Closing date: 19 October 2026
The Trust warns that vacancies may close early if a high level of interest is received, so early applications are encouraged.
Additional Information
The post is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust states that it is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion and encourages applications from people from a wide range of backgrounds.
Applicants are also asked to ensure that their application reflects their own experience, skills and motivations. The Trust states that AI tools may be used to support spelling, grammar or formatting, but personal statements and responses to role-specific questions should be written by the applicant.
Employer Details
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
North Manchester General Hospital
Delaunays Road
Crumpsall
Manchester
M8 5RB
United Kingdom
Employer website: https://mft.nhs.uk/careers/
Job reference: 349-COR-8261146-RL4
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