Change Delivery Lead: Transformation & Improvement

Transformation Unit; Dorchester; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Change Delivery Manager to join the Transformation and Improvement Team at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. The role focuses on driving priority transformation, recovery and improvement programmes, partnering with clinical, operational and corporate teams to redesign pathways and deliver measurable benefits.

You will lead projects, facilitate workshops, manage risks, and ensure evidence-based delivery across a complex system.

Qualifications

• Broad understanding of the NHS, including operational, clinical, quality, workforce and financial pressures.
• Structured project management, change management, quality improvement or service redesign methodologies with evidence of applying these approaches.
• Understanding of implementation, adoption and benefits realisation principles, including defining measures and tracking delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead change delivery programmes from mobilisation to implementation and handover to BAU, managing risks, issues, dependencies and benefits.
• Ensure timely delivery of transformation programmes at pace with governance and safe implementation.
• Support service redesign with analytical, financial, clinical and operational colleagues to base work on current state analysis.
• Translate priorities into programme plans with milestones and defined ownership, dependencies and benefits.
• Lead and facilitate workshops, design sessions and stakeholder meetings to support programme objectives.
• Collaborate across Dorset HealthCare, Dorset County Hospital and system partners for cross-organisational delivery.

Skills

Project management

Change management

Benefits realization

Data-informed delivery

Job description

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Change Delivery Manager to join the Transformation and Improvement Team at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. The role focuses on driving priority transformation, recovery and improvement programmes, partnering with clinical, operational and corporate teams to redesign pathways and deliver measurable benefits.

You will lead projects, facilitate workshops, manage risks, and ensure evidence-based delivery across a complex system.