Deputy Director for Large-Scale Change
Job Description
Job summary
This is an exciting time to join large-scale change at CUH. We are advancing healthcare, research, and education locally by redesigning pathways with community and primary care partners; regionally through specialised services and new Children's and Cancer hospitals; and nationally through research, innovation, and cross-industry partnerships.
Our large-scale change team delivers major programmes supporting CUH's five-year strategy. In this highly digitised HIMSS EMRAM Level 7 organisation, you will lead multi-year transformation combining digital innovation and care-model redesign to improve patient care, access, productivity, and efficiency across CUH and partner organisations.
Main duties of the job
Lead the multi-professional Large-Scale Change team and a rolling portfolio of complex transformation programmes.Advise executive and clinical leaders on strategy, priorities, investment choices, and major delivery risks.Oversee governance, resources, benefits and performance, resolving barriers and assuring sustainable delivery.Build influential partnerships across CUH, the NHS and external organisations, including supporting major bids and business cases.
If you can turn ambitious strategy into better care, access, and productivity--and inspire people to deliver change at scale--we would love to hear from you.
About us
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 20th October 2026.
Interviews are due to be held on 3rd November.
All appointments with a start date on or after 1 October 2026 will be subject to a 12-week probationary period. This provides a structured and supportive period to help you settle into your role, with regular reviews and feedback.
Right to Work
As there is a 12-week probationary period, successful candidates are expected to have the Right to Work for a period of at least 6 months from the proposed start date. Immigration and Right to Work status will be discussed with successful candidates at conditional offer. CUH will not offer sponsorship to candidates that have applied for a fee waiver.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full-time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full-time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to master's level or able to demonstrate equivalent specialist knowledge and senior leadership experience in transformation, programme management, organisational change or a related field
- oEvidence of Continuous Professional Development
Desirable
- oRelevant professional registration
- oMBA or equivalent management qualification
- oEvidence of managing Successful Programmes/ Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent experience).
- oAccredited lean/improvement qualification
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant senior leadership and planning of multi-year, Trust-wide and system-wide transformation portfolios, including digitally enabled care model redesign and complex interdependencies.
- oExperience of utilising digital systems and technologies, to enable the design of new models of care.
- oManaging strategic and operational change. Including the impact on clinical service delivery, policies and processes, resources and service users.
- oWorking across multiple professional disciplines to deliver significant improvement to models of care or organisational processes.
- oSet-up of governance structures for a complex portfolio of Trust-wide programmes
- oDesigning or leading the use of performance tracking systems, particularly in programme management.
- oProven delivery of benefits realisation with clear KPIs and outcomes; experience of recovering under-performing programmes.
- oSenior experience managing risks/issues/dependencies and leading cross-organisational teams and suppliers under formal governance.
- oWorking at a senior level of management on strategic transformation in a healthcare or similar organisation
- oWorking constructively with internal and external partners to create successful collaboration
- oWorking collaboratively with senior clinicians across multi-disciplinary professions and services
- oReporting to and working at Board/ executive committee level.
- oReporting complex information and data - verbally, in papers and in presentations, in a succinct manner, to a range of audiences from service users through to executives.
- oIdentifying, initiating and maintaining partnership activity with other organisations and maximising relations with relevant parties and services (from inception to completion).
- oManaging large scale complex change programmes at a senior management level using recognised methodology, including use of service improvement and programme management techniques.
- oDeveloping performance indicators, dashboards and scorecards to monitor project and programme delivery, including tracking and realising benefits.
- oManaging programme budgets; knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation
- oEvidence of holding direct delegated accountability for substantial revenue and/or capital budgets, including expenditure approval, financial recovery action and delivery of recurrent productivity or efficiency benefits.
- oSubstantial experience of full line-management responsibility for a multi-tier senior team, including recruitment, appraisal, performance, conduct, workforce planning, talent and succession, alongside leadership of complex matrix teams.
- oExperience crafting compelling strategic narratives and business cases or funding bids for senior stakeholders and external partners/government.
- oExperience of leading ...
