Principal Technical Specialist | NHS England
| Company: | NHS England |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £66,582 - £77,368 per annum (exclusive of London Weighting) |
| Hours: | Part-time |
| Location: | Nationally, LS1 4AP |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 28 Jul 2026 |
| Closing date: | 27 Aug 2026 |
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.
• Manages the relationship between NHS.net Connect Teams and internal/external Stakeholders.
• Actively contributes to the strategy and vision for the future of the NHSmail and O365 for the NHS using specialist knowledge.
• Managing the support for the NHS.net Connect service and O365 suite sitting on technical design authority and governing new technology in regard to central tenant enablement
• 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.
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025,the Government announcedthat NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.
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.
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Aug 2026