Improvement Facilitator | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 p.a. pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 December 2025 |
| Location: | Cambridge, CB2 0QQ |
| Company: | Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7601072/180-F-CVA243 |
Summary
Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) – incorporating Addenbrooke’s and the Rosie Hospitals – is one of the UK’s leading academic and clinical centres, renowned for excellence in care, research and innovation. Rated Outstanding for care and Good overall by the CQC, we are committed to putting patients at the heart of everything we do.
We are seeking a motivated and skilled Improvement and Transformation Facilitator to join our Improvement and Transformation Team to help drive our Trust-wide improvement movement. You will partner with clinical, operational and corporate teams to design, deliver and embed projects that enhance patient outcomes, staff experience and organisational performance.
You will bring experience in leading change and improvement using recognised methodologies, supported by excellent communication, data analysis and stakeholder engagement skills. Confident working across boundaries, you will coach and support colleagues to deliver measurable, sustainable results and help build a culture of continuous improvement.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible difference in one of the country’s most forward-thinking NHS Trusts, while developing your own leadership and improvement expertise within a supportive, collaborative environment.
The Trust will create an improvement movement throughout the organisation, whereby improvement will become part of the day job for our clinical and non-clinical staff, driving improved patient outcomes, patient and staff experience and value. Successful improvements and projects will contribute to the delivery of the Trust’s strategy. This role is key to supporting the Trust to build and establish a culture of continuous improvement, to enable the required improvements; in doing so, this will achieve quality, performance, workforce and financial savings for the Trust. You will:
• Work with the Director of Improvement and Transformation, clinical director of improvement and transformation, heads of improvement and transformation and senior improvement and transformation manager to develop and embed a culture of continuous improvement, enhancing patient care, staff experience, and CUH’s long-term sustainability.
• Collaborate with staff across the organisation to deliver projects that improve patient journeys, support the Trust’s strategy, and achieve cost improvements.
• Work jointly with colleagues across CUH and the wider Integrated Care System as needed.
• Apply improvement methodologies and facilitation skills to achieve project goals.
• Build improvement capability by designing and delivering training, mentoring, coaching, and supporting individuals in their improvement education
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.
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
• or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
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.
The advert will close at midnight on 26 November 2025.
Interviews are due to be held on 8, 9 and 10 December 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 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.
This advert closes on Wednesday 26 Nov 2025