# Large Scale Change – Change Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Addenbrooke's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Manager
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 p.a. pro rata
- **Contract type:** 6 months (Fixed Term/Secondment)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, 37.5 hours per week (Full Time or Part Time / Flexible working hours may be considered.)
- **Closing date:** 2026-11-04T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30T12:20:42.468Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Cambridgeshire/Cambridge/Cambridge_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Division_Corporate_Large_Scale_Change/Division_Corporate_Large_Scale_Change-v8405462
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8405462?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.cuh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Change Manager to join the Large-Scale Change Team within Improvement and Transformation. This is an exciting opportunity to support the delivery of major transformation and digital change programmes across the Trust. These roles will focus on the rollout of Ambient Voice Technology across Outpatients Services with approximately 20 specialties.

If you are an organised, proactive and people-focused individual who enjoys working with teams to deliver meaningful change, we would love to hear from you.

### Main duties of the job

Working with clinical, operational, corporate and technical teams, you will help plan, implement and embed changes that improve services, patient outcomes and staff experience.

We are looking for individuals with experience in service improvement, transformation, project delivery or change management. Applications are welcomed from both non-clinical and clinical staff who are interested in developing their skills in large-scale change and transformation. Based on-site at Addenbrooke's Hospital, this is a 6-month fixed-term contract or secondment. For secondment applicants, written agreement from your substantive line manager must be obtained before applying.

Applicants must be able to work on site for 4 days per week and should be immediately available to start.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment or fixed term contract. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position.

This vacancy will close at midnight on 4th November 2026.

Interview dates will be communicated to successful applicants.

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

### Skills

**Essential**

- - Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), able to adapt to a range of audiences, including staff and patients and produce clear, high quality outputs
- - Ability to analyse and interpret complex and sometimes conflicting information, identify options and make sound recommendations.
- - Ability to plan and organise a range of complex, interdependent activities and adjust plans in response to changing circumstances.
- - Highly developed communication, facilitation, influencing and negotiation skills, including the ability to manage resistance and competing priorities.
- - Ability to communicate complex or sensitive information clearly to audiences with differing levels of understanding.
- - Ability to work autonomously, exercise judgement within delegated authority and recognise when escalation is required.
- - Ability to produce concise, accurate and decision-focused reports for senior and governance audiences.
- - Ability to maintain delivery and professional credibility in a complex, pressured and changing environment.
- - Ability to manage multiple priorities across a range of programmes particularly when under pressure.
- - Strong organisation and time management skills, able to manage competing priorities and deliver at pace.
- - Stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills, including ability to work constructively in challenging environments.
- - Confidence presenting to groups and supporting delivery of engagement/training sessions
- - Ability to work effectively in a matrix team, building collaborative relationships and contributing to shared outcomes.
- - A high level of ICT skills including Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Copilot)
- - Meticulous attention to detail
- - Resilience, adaptability and an improvement driven mindset

**Desirable**

- - Experience of using programme/project management tools eg Verto, RAID logs, benefits trackers

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- - Detailed knowledge of structured change-management approaches, implementation planning, stakeholder analysis, change impact assessment, readiness assessment, adoption measurement and benefits realisation.
- - Understanding of project and programme governance, including planning, risk, issue, dependency, assurance and reporting arrangements.
- - Understanding of service improvement, process redesign and user-centred design approaches
- - Specialist knowledge of digital transformation in a healthcare setting, including uthe challenges and enablers of implementing technology-driven changes to clinical and operational workflows.
- - Understanding of the national and local health context
- - Knowledge of good user-centred service design
- - Knowledge of human behaviours in change.

**Desirable**

- - Familiarity with common NHS digital platforms and clinical systems, ideally Epic, and/or digital workflow tools

### Experience

**Essential**

- - Significant experience of leading and independently delivering complex change workstreams or projects within a large and complex organisation or system.
- - Experience of planning and coordinating multiple interdependent activities involving a range of professional and organisational stakeholders.
- - Experience of analysing complex operational, workforce, stakeholder or performance information and developing evidence-based recommendations.
- - Experience of implementing and embedding changes to processes, pathways, systems or ways of working.
- - Experience of working with senior clinical, operational, corporate or technical stakeholders and using influence and negotiation to resolve barriers or competing priorities.
- - Experience of risk, issue, dependency and change-control management.
- - Experience of developing and presenting reports, recommendations and assurance information to senior stakeholders or governance groups.
- - Experience of identifying, baselining, monitoring and evaluating measurable benefits and adoption outcomes
- - Experience of facilitating workshops, readiness reviews, engagement activity or implementation sessions.
- - Experience of delivering digital or technology-enabled change.

**Desirable**

- - Experience of supporting larger change programmes that cross organisational boundaries
- - Experience of delivering change in a clinical environment and/or working directly with clinical services
- - Experience supporting go-live activities including providing at the elbow support to teams adopting new ways of working

### Qualifications

**Essential**

- - Educated to degree level or equivalent demonstrable experience in change management, transformation, service improvement, digital implementation or a related area.
- - Specialist change-management knowledge acquired through relevant post-graduate study, professional training or equivalent substantial practical experience.
- - Evidence of continuing professional development in change management, project delivery, or digital transformation

**Desirable**

- - Qualification in change management such as Prosci, APMG or Lean
- - Project management qualification eg PRINCE2 Foundation or Agile.

### Additional Requirements

**Essential**

- - Ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
- - High level of personal integrity and professionalism

## Documents

- [applicant information pack (docx, 103.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10737296)
- [completing your application - information for applicants (pdf, 222.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10737295)

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