Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Digital Programme Manager to join the Cambridge Children's Hospital Project team on an 18 month fixed term contract to support its Transformation and Transition programmes.
Cambridge Children's aspires to be more than a hospital. Through a collaboration between Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and the University of Cambridge, we are seeking a visionary new approach to healthcare for children and young people across the east of England. We will treat the whole child or young person with an innovative model of co-located physical and mental healthcare and research.
Working on behalf of both NHS partners, CPFT and CUH, this role will play a key part in regional NHS digital strategy, ensuring the successful integration of physical health, mental health, research, and education into a future-proofed digital hospital and ecosystem.
The position requires a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal skills to manage and develop a diverse set of relationships with all levels of staff involved in the programme.
You will need to possess technical knowledge and experience in operational or programme delivery of digital services.
If you are a professional, positive-thinking individual with demonstrable relevant experience, looking for a rewarding and varied role in which you can use and develop your skills, then we are looking for you to join us.
Main duties of the job
o Working with the senior leadership of project team and partner organisations to lead the Digital programme for the CCH project. Priorities will include EPR implementation planning, digital innovation and building infrastructure.o Ensuring there is the appropriate involvement and support for the project from all relevant stakeholders ensuring delivery of high quality meaningful partnerships that deliver tangible patient benefit. This includes digital leads, clinical and operational staff, patients and the public, finance representatives, external NHS stakeholders, and third party organisations.o Actively maintaining a detailed overview of the CCH Digital programme and coordinate the programme's projects, manage interdependencies and ensure realisation of projected benefits.o In collaboration with stakeholders, developing the necessary digital components for the CCH Business case and design processes.o Reporting directly to the project's strategic and operational boards, influencing senior NHS leadership and ensuring that digital solutions align with national NHS digital strategy and policy directives
The Digital Programme Manager will provide strategic leadership in the development, implementation, and evaluation of a digital transformation and transition programmes to support the Cambridge Children's Hospital (CCH) project.
About us
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.
Job description
Job 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 only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 3rd August 2025.
Interviews are due to be held on 6th August 2025.
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 caf, 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.
This role will be employed via CUH but work on behalf of CUH and CPFT.
Job description
Job 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 only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
For NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough based roles, all applicants from NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough who have identified that they are at risk of redundancy will be prioritised over those not at risk. However, interviews cannot be guaranteed.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 3rd August 2025.
Interviews are due to be held on 6th August 2025.
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 caf, 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.
This role will be employed via CUH but work on behalf of CUH and CPFT.
Person Specification
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in Digital Health, Informatics, Business, or related field, or equivalent senior leadership experience in NHS digital transformation.
- At least ONE of the following or similar: Accredited QSIR Practitioner, PRINCE2(TM) or AMP Practitioner qualification, Agile or other change management methodology e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Extensive strategic and operational project management experience managing multiple complex projects and resources, within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, in a digital and healthcare related environment.
- Proven experience of using project management and research methodologies to deliver programmes of work and scope and test new digital innovations within deadlines and costs.
- Strong track record in developing and implementing NHS-wide digital strategies and policies, including experience of change management where new of different IT/ digital systems are required
- Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement at local, regional and national NHS levels and evidence of working with multi-disciplinary staff across diverse professional organisations to specify solutions to support the successful delivery of projects across boundaries and affecting significant change
- Experience in effective leadership, supervision and resource allocation to deliver complex projects including where you both have and do not have direct line management responsibility e.g. working with operational managers, frontline operational and clinical staff and third party contractors.
- 6.Experience of identifying, initiating and maintaining project and partnership activity with external partners and industry and maximising relations with relevant parties and services.
- Experience of taking a strategic and analytical approach to assess areas of strength, identify competitive advantage and develop propositions that are commercially attractive
- Experience of report development, writing and presentation to governance boards; ensuring the accuracy of information and effective translation for different audiences
- Experience of the identification and management of risks, issues and dependencies.
- Experience of developing and managing budgets and overseeing procurement of major IT systems and consultancies.
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of digital transformation in healthcare including NHS digital strategy/ policies, healthcare IT standards, and data governance
- Advanced knowledge of healthcare IT delivery such as EPRs, hardware infrastructure, interoperability frameworks, AI-driven healthcare, and patient-centred digital innovations.
- Advanced knowledge of delivering large scale complex digital programmes/ projects at a senior management level
- Advanced knowledge of change management with proven negotiating and influencing knowledge both internally and externally and at all levels.
- Advanced knowledge of quantitative and qualitative analytical and research approaches to support build a case for change or demonstrate impact
- Knowledge of business cases processes
- Knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation
- Knowledge of programme governance and benefits realisation
- Advanced knowledge of ICT (including Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and project management tools.
Skills
Essential
- Exceptional leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly motivated and resourceful with ability to work autonomously and take accountability for own work
- Ability to report to governance boards and represent the programme at local, regional and national forums
- Has realistic knowledge of and reflective approach to personal strengths and areas for development
- Ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive information with exceptional verbal and written communication skills to a wide range of audiences with a meticulous attention to detail
- Expert negotiation and diplomacy skills and understands the principle of confidentiality.
- Expert ability to think clearly, solve or pre-empt problems, reach decisions, prioritise and recommend appropriate action through the assessment and presentation of relevant and complex information in an accessible form.
- Expert ability to translate strategic direction into deliverable, measurable outcomes and engage others in strategy and planning.
- Ability to adapt during periods of change and learn from mistakes.
- Ability to assignment and line manage and define the responsibilities and workload for a team
- Ability to build positive relationships, influence senior colleagues and other stakeholders, including on highly sensitive and complex matters.
- Ability to build positive relationships, influence senior colleagues and other stakeholders, including on highly sensitive and complex matters.
- Demonstrates empathy and concerns for others
- Ability to manage a multifaceted, complex project / programme to time.
- Able to prioritise workload, manage competing demands and produce high quality work to tight deadlines.
Person Specification
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Masters level in Digital Health, Informatics, Business, or related field, or equivalent senior leadership experience in NHS digital transformation.
- At least ONE of the following or similar: Accredited QSIR Practitioner, PRINCE2(TM) or AMP Practitioner qualification, Agile or other change management methodology e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Lean qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable
- Extensive strategic and operational project management experience managing multiple complex projects and resources, within the NHS or a comparable large organisation, in a digital and healthcare related environment.
- Proven experience of using project management and research methodologies to deliver programmes of work and scope and test new digital innovations within deadlines and costs.
- Strong track record in developing and implementing NHS-wide digital strategies and policies, including experience of change management where new of different IT/ digital systems are required
- Extensive experience in stakeholder engagement at local, regional and national NHS levels and evidence of working with multi-disciplinary staff across diverse professional organisations to specify solutions to support the successful delivery of projects across boundaries and affecting significant change
- Experience in effective leadership, supervision and resource allocation to deliver complex projects including where you both have and do not have direct line management responsibility e.g. working with operational managers, frontline operational and clinical staff and third party contractors.
- 6.Experience of identifying, initiating and maintaining project and partnership activity with external partners and industry and maximising relations with relevant parties and services.
- Experience of taking a strategic and analytical approach to assess areas of strength, identify competitive advantage and develop propositions that are commercially attractive
- Experience of report development, writing and presentation to governance boards; ensuring the accuracy of information and effective translation for different audiences
- Experience of the identification and management of risks, issues and dependencies.
- Experience of developing and managing budgets and overseeing procurement of major IT systems and consultancies.
Knowledge
Essential
- Advanced knowledge of digital transformation in healthcare including NHS digital strategy/ policies, healthcare IT standards, and data governance
- Advanced knowledge of healthcare IT delivery such as EPRs, hardware infrastructure, interoperability frameworks, AI-driven healthcare, and patient-centred digital innovations.
- Advanced knowledge of delivering large scale complex digital programmes/ projects at a senior management level
- Advanced knowledge of change management with proven negotiating and influencing knowledge both internally and externally and at all levels.
- Advanced knowledge of quantitative and qualitative analytical and research approaches to support build a case for change or demonstrate impact
- Knowledge of business cases processes
- Knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation
- Knowledge of programme governance and benefits realisation
- Advanced knowledge of ICT (including Word, PowerPoint and Excel) and project management tools.
Skills
Essential
- Exceptional leadership, interpersonal and communication skills
- Highly motivated and resourceful with ability to work autonomously and take accountability for own work
- Ability to report to governance boards and represent the programme at local, regional and national forums
- Has realistic knowledge of and reflective approach to personal strengths and areas for development
- Ability to communicate highly complex and sensitive information with exceptional verbal and written communication skills to a wide range of audiences with a meticulous attention to detail
- Expert negotiation and diplomacy skills and understands the principle of confidentiality.
- Expert ability to think clearly, solve or pre-empt problems, reach decisions, prioritise and recommend appropriate action through the assessment and presentation of relevant and complex information in an accessible form.
- Expert ability to translate strategic direction into deliverable, measurable outcomes and engage others in strategy and planning.
- Ability to adapt during periods of change and learn from mistakes.
- Ability to assignment and line manage and define the responsibilities and workload for a team
- Ability to build positive relationships, influence senior colleagues and other stakeholders, including on highly sensitive and complex matters.
- Ability to build positive relationships, influence senior colleagues and other stakeholders, including on highly sensitive and complex matters.
- Demonstrates empathy and concerns for others
- Ability to manage a multifaceted, complex project / programme to time.
- Able to prioritise workload, manage competing demands and produce high quality work to tight deadlines.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Addenbrookes Hospital-Division Corporate
Hills Road
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
Employer's website
https://www.cuh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)