Assistant Manager (Deployment), Cyber and Digital Health

Overview

In this role you lead deployment workstreams to turn digital health designs into live frontline use. You’ll mobilise readiness, plan deployments, and coordinate across clinical, operational, and digital teams to implement EPR, AVT, virtual care, and analytics. You’ll manage risks, governance, and adoption from readiness to stabilisation, delivering measurable benefits. This is a hands-on, cross-functional role that shapes digital health change in NHS and public sector settings.

Pay / Benefits

• flexible working
• travel requirements
• opportunity to work with NHS bodies

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment workstreams from design to go-live in frontline settings
• Coordinate mobilisation, readiness assessment, deployment planning, implementation and adoption activities across clinical, operational, digital, data, technical, information governance, cyber and supplier teams
• Support deployment of EPR, AVT, virtual care, remote monitoring, analytics and other digital health technologies, including cutover planning and go-live support
• Translate deployment plans into frontline actions, remove blockers and maintain momentum across stakeholder environments
• Monitor programme risks, issues, readiness, milestones and benefits metrics
• Lead programme governance, reporting and assurance to ensure delivery confidence and adoption
• Support transition from deployment into stabilisation, optimisation and benefits realisation
• Apply structured implementation, change, adoption and programme management methodologies to complex healthcare environments
• Support business development and proposition development activities linked to digital health deployment and transformation

Key requirements

• Large-scale healthcare technology deployment experience in complex clinical or operational settings
• Hands-on EPR deployment experience: readiness, cutover, command centre, go-live, stabilisation and adoption
• Experience with AVT, virtual care, remote monitoring, analytics, automation or AI-enabled solutions
• Tenacity in delivery: unblock issues, manage ambiguity, sustain momentum across stakeholders
• Knowledge of programme, project, change, adoption and implementation methodologies
• Experience managing deployment plans, readiness trackers, RAID logs, risks, dependencies and governance
• Strong understanding of healthcare operational processes and clinical workflows
• Knowledge of major EPR platforms and associated digital health technologies and suppliers
• Ability to communicate with frontline teams and translate objectives into practical actions
• Strong PowerPoint and Excel skills for senior stakeholder reporting
• Experience applying GenAI/agentic AI tools to improve delivery and knowledge management
• NHS Trusts / Integrated Care Systems experience advantageous

• Stakeholder management
• Clear communication
• Problem-solving and resilience
• EPR deployments
• Ambient Voice Technology (AVT)
• Virtual care

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