Deputy Director for -Scale

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

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

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

This is an exciting time to join large-scale change  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.

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.

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.

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…