IT Development Manager

Qualifications & Education

Essential criteria

Band 8a

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With a strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, we’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under‑represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle (Shine) and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus.

Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

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.

• Interview date: 13 March 2026
• 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.

• 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 recommend 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…