Senior Change Delivery & Transformation Lead

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust; Dorchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Change Delivery Manager to join our Transformation Team, guiding priority recovery and improvement programmes across Dorset HealthCare and partners. You will lead complex programmes from mobilisation to handover, embedding sustainable benefits and delivering change at pace within clinical, operational and corporate settings.

You will provide expert support and assurance to programme teams, facilitate stakeholder engagement,

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex change, improvement, recovery or transformation programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder management, analytical and influencing skills.
• Experience delivering through influence rather than direct authority.
• Ability to translate strategy into practical implementation.

Responsibilities

• Lead allocated programmes/workstreams from mobilisation through implementation and BAU handover with clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, benefits and escalation.
• Apply structured transformation and improvement methodologies proportionate to programme complexity, risk and urgency, supporting services to define problems, design future-state models and implement effective solutions.
• Translate strategic priorities and agreed programme objectives into clear delivery plans, implementation plans and practical actions with defined ownership, milestones, dependencies and benefits.
• Provide senior quality assurance of supported transformation and improvement activity, including problem definition, scope, readiness, current-state analysis, future-state design, implementation plans, benefits logic, adoption approach, and delivery confidence.
• Build and maintain effective relationships with clinical, operational, corporate and system stakeholders to support collaborative delivery and change adoption across organisational and within professional boundaries.
• Work closely with Strategy, Insight and Evaluation, TMO and governance colleagues to ensure robust programme oversight, effective reporting, early identification of risks and dependencies, and alignment with agreed governance processes and delivery standards.

Job description

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Change Delivery Manager to join our Transformation Team, guiding priority recovery and improvement programmes across Dorset HealthCare and partners. You will lead complex programmes from mobilisation to handover, embedding sustainable benefits and delivering change at pace within clinical, operational and corporate settings.

You will provide expert support and assurance to programme teams, facilitate stakeholder engagement,