Senior Technical Specialist | NHS England
| Posting date: | 12 November 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £55,690 - £62,682 Per annum (exclusive of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | National, LS1 4AP |
| Company: | NHS England |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7566073/990-TD-IT-18257-E |
Summary
Collaboration Services
We deliver secure, user-focused digital platforms that enable collaboration and communication across health and social care. This includes a national communications platform with 1.7 million active users, ensuring the NHS workforce maximises technology to boost productivity. We simplify and enhance our external digital presence through a reliable, secure CMS-driven website experience, and provide NHS Futures – a secure collaboration environment for national and international partners to share resources, manage programmes, and build communities beyond IT restrictions.
Provides technical consultancy and support to define and produce appropriate NHS.net and collaboration tool deliverables.
Manages the relationship between NHS.net Teams and internal/external Stakeholders.
Actively contributes to the Technical Roadmap and strategy
Managing the support for the NHS.net service advising on technical design about the central tenant
Maintaining individual and team development to support new and upcoming technologies with full understanding of key developments in relevant professional spheres.
Manages and maintains own professional knowledge and development in their technical specialism and embraces development opportunities to support new technologies, frameworks and services including the move to AI and the Microsoft Roadmap
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Please note that this is a fixed term contract as this is a short-term vacancy.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
This advert closes on Wednesday 26 Nov 2025