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Salary for this role£49,387 – £56,515 a year

Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year

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Role description

Job summary

This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust only.

NHS Band 7 Salary: £49,387 - £56,515 per annum

Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5 hrs

Contract Type: Temporary

Location Base: Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Corporate Hub, Block 4000, Lakeside North Harbour, Western Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3EN & St Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Road, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 5TG

The Digital Transformation & Training Manager is responsible for leading and coordinating the delivery of business change and digital training functions across the organisation, ensuring the successful adoption of digital systems and realisation of programme benefits. The role provides leadership to Business Change Analysts and Digital Trainers, aligning change management, stakeholder engagement, and workforce training activities to support strategic digital programmes and wider clinical systems. The post holder ensures a coherent approach to change, communications, and training, enabling operational teams to effectively adopt new processes and technologies while maintaining service stability and delivering measurable outcomes.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead the development and delivery of the digital transformation, providing strategic oversight of the frameworks, standards and approaches that support effective organisational change, digital adoption and benefits realisation across programmes of work. They will manage and develop a high-performing team to deliver transformation, engagement and training activites that enables the successful implementation of digital products and services, ensuring staff are supported through change and equipped with high-quality training packages, materials and learning interventions. The role will work closely with programme, operational, clinical and corporate stakeholders to embed consistent change practices, improve readiness for digital transformation and support the safe, effective and sustainable adoption of new technologies across the organisation.

About us

Working as a partnership, both Isle of Wight NHS Trust and Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust have a shared vision for excellence in care for our patients and communities; with a set of strategic aims underpinning how we will achieve this.

The single corporate service is delivered across both organisations. You may be based at either IWT or PHU and individuals may be required to undertake business travel between sites. For leaders managing staff across multi-site locations, you will need to be visible and provide in person leadership. The arrangements and frequency will be agreed locally.

Date posted

02 November 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

23 months

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

REF2744B

Job locations

St Mary's Hospital

Parkhurst Road

Newport

Isle of Wight

PO30 5TG

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Line manage and develop Business Change Analysts and Digital Trainers
Provide visible leadership across multi-site teams and ensure consistent delivery of services
Lead the delivery of Digital change and training activities across digital programmes
Ensure effective transition of business change, training delivery, and programme benefits into operational practice
Support workforce capability and digital skills development aligned to Trust strategy
Oversee delivery of change management activities, ensuring alignment to programme objectives
Ensure clear communication of the benefits, risks, and impacts of change
Lead the development and delivery of digital training strategies using blended learning approaches
Ensure training supports system adoption, workforce capability, and NHS standards
Align training delivery with system deployments and upgrades
Build and maintain effective relationships with clinical, operational, and corporate stakeholders

For full job details and person specifications please refer to enclosed job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Degree level qualification or equivalent experience in digital transformation, change management, training, or related field
Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

Formal change management qualification (e.g. Prosci, MSP, PRINCE2)
Teaching/training qualification or equivalent experience
Leadership or management qualification

Experience

Essential

Significant experience of leading business change and/or digital training functions
Experience managing or supervising staff and developing team capability
Experience delivering change within large-scale organisational or digital programmes
Experience of stakeholder engagement across clinical, operational, and corporate teams
Experience developing and delivering training or learning interventions across mixed audiences

Desirable

Experience within NHS or healthcare environment Experience of multi-site service delivery Experience supporting implementation of EPR or clinical system

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of digital transformation and organisational change management, including change impact assessment, stakeholder engagement, readiness and adoption.
Knowledge of business process mapping and redesign, including translating system changes into effective operational practice.
Knowledge of benefits identification, measurement and realisation, including evaluating training effectiveness and sustained digital adoption.
Understanding of project and programme governance, risk management and the interdependencies between technical delivery, business change and training.
Understanding of information governance, confidentiality and clinical safety considerations relevant to digital implementation and training.

Desirable

Knowledge of NHS clinical and operational workflows and the impact of digital change on service delivery.
Knowledge of digital learning platforms, learning management systems and tools for developing training materials.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.