Deputy Director for Large-Scale Change

Cambridge University Hospitals; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 94,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site leisure facilities

Shopping concourse

Day nurseries

Bus travel discounts

Park and Ride facilities

Parking subsidies

Flexible working options

Job summary

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a senior leader to drive large-scale transformation across the organisation. You will lead a multi-professional team, shape strategy with executive and clinical leaders, and oversee governance, benefits delivery, and performance across complex programmes.

The role requires master’s level expertise, CPD evidence, and experience in digitally enabled care models. The post supports flexible working within a national NHS framework.

Qualifications

• Educated to master’s level or able to demonstrate equivalent specialist knowledge and senior leadership experience in transformation, programme management or related field.
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development.
• Experience managing Successful Programmes/Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent).

Responsibilities

• 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 ensuring sustainable delivery.
• Build influential partnerships across CUH, the NHS and external organisations, including supporting major bids and business cases.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Programme management

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Master’s degree or equivalent leadership experience

Evidence of Continuous Professional Development

Prince2 Practitioner or equivalent

Job description

Main area Division Corporate - Transformation Grade Band 8d Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered) Job ref 180-F-CVA1146

Employer Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Addenbrookes Hospital-Division Corporate Town Cambridge Salary £94,356 - £108,814 p.a. pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 22/09/2026 23:59 Interview date 02/10/2026

Job overview

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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

All roles in the Trust include a mandatory 12-week training period. Therefore, 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.

All appointments with a start date on or after 1 October 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.

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

All roles in the Trust include a mandatory 12-week training period. Therefore 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.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 22nd September 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on 2nd October with a stakeholder panel, followed by face to face interviews on 7th October 2026.

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 café, 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

• Educated 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
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
• Evidence of managing Successful Programmes/ Prince2 Practitioner (or equivalent experience).

Experience

• Significant senior leadership and planning of multi-year, Trust-wide and system-wide transformation portfolios, including digitally enabled care model redesign and complex interdependencies.
• Experience of utilising digital systems and technologies, to enable the design of new models of care.
• Managing strategic and operational change. Including the impact on clinical service delivery, policies and processes, resources and service users.
• Working across multiple professional disciplines to deliver significant improvement to models of care or organisational processes.
• Set-up of governance structures for a complex portfolio of Trust-wide programmes
• Designing or leading the use of performance tracking systems, particularly in programme management.
• Proven delivery of benefits realisation with clear KPIs and outcomes