Senior Improvement and Transformation Manager

Job overview

This senior role is key to supporting the Trust to build and establish a culture of continuous improvement and is part of the Improvement and Transformation team.

The role combines responsibility for leading and delivering improvement and transformation projects and programmes alongside supporting the development and delivery of the Trust's Improvement Capability Building programme. A significant focus of the portfolio is productivity and efficiency improvement - supporting the Trust to deliver more effective, sustainable services through redesigned pathways, reduced unwarranted variation, and better use of available capacity.

The role requires fostering excellent working relationships with organisational leaders, clinical services and corporate leadership teams, and ensuring measurement systems are in place to track both the implementation of improvement and transformative solutions and the maturity of continuous improvement across the organisation.

The role requires a blend of improvement approach, project management and delivery, training, coaching and facilitation at all levels of the organisation.

Main duties of the job

• Lead and manage a portfolio of improvement and transformation projects, ensuring delivery of the Trust’s strategic, productivity and efficiency objectives.
• Apply robust programme management, governance and reporting processes to ensure projects are well planned, tracked and deliver measurable benefits.
• Work in partnership with clinical and operational teams to redesign pathways, reduce variation and improve performance, capacity and patient outcomes.
• Support the development and delivery of the Trust’s improvement framework, including capability building, training and coaching.
• Act as a trusted improvement partner to a clinical division, providing expert advice, shaping improvement initiatives and supporting delivery.
• Use data and measurement for improvement to identify opportunities, track progress and demonstrate impact, including financial and operational benefits.
• Engage and influence stakeholders across the organisation, building a culture of continuous improvement and supporting the spread of best practice.
• Collaborate with Digital, Analytics and other corporate teams to align improvement initiatives with wider system developments and priorities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

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

The advert will close at midnight on 24 May 2026.

Interviews are due to be held on 8 June and 10 June 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.