Job overview
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace environment where all our people thrive through having a positive experience at work and in the services that they deliver and can maximise their potential and develop successful careers. This will support staff retention and promote the delivery of high-quality care to our patients and service users.
You will play a lead role in enabling and embedding a workplace environment where each person has a voice, feels heard and valued, and feels that they belong.
You will be a strong advocate of inclusive values and behaviours with a demonstrable track record of leading workplace cultural change and improvement and tackling all forms of hatred and racism.
As a senior member of the Culture and Leadership Team you will lead on the implementation of the workforce EDI Agenda across the Trust towards delivering an inclusive culture for all our people, in collaboration with NHS partners, other stakeholders and communities of practice.
You will provide leadership, knowledge and expertise in the design and delivery of workforce EDI interventions that will help to deliver sustainable organisational performance, ensuring that workforce EDI activities are evidence led.
You will be accountable to the Director of Culture and Leadership and link with the Workforce Senior Management Team for the delivery of workforce EDI projects, initiatives and approaches which are aligned to the workforce programmes and the Trust strategies.
Main duties of the job
Take the lead in articulating the outcomes expected from the workforce EDI portfolio and the resources required to deliver these outcomes.
Take a lead role in the design and delivery of the programme management and monitoring arrangements to be applied to the workforce EDI portfolio of work.
Work with the Director of Culture and Leadership to ensure that workforce EDI interventions are closely aligned with business needs and are in line with Trust strategy and workforce commitments.
Ensure that our workforce EDI agenda is aligned with the national NHS people plan, the NHS people promise, system and regional people strategies. Benchmark CUH practices with national and regional healthcare partners / sector organisations and good practice more broadly.
Support the development of an overarching delivery plan for the workforce EDI portfolio inclusive of lessons learnt from the annual NHS Staff Survey and national and regional benchmarking outcomes.
Prepare workforce EDI investment cases and business cases as required in partnership with CLL Head of Business Operations.
Working for our organisation
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.
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
- 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.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 9th November 2025
Interviews are provisionally due to be held on 21st November 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Relevant graduate or post graduate degree e.g. in Organizational Behavior, Occupational Psychology, Organisational Change or Organisation Development or related social science e.g. Sociology; Anthropology with relevant applied experience of translating theory into practice.
Evidence of relevant continuous professional development.
Desirable criteria
Postgraduate or CPD in Systems Thinking, Design Thinking or Complexity Science.
Experience
Essential criteria
Significant experience of delivering inclusive behavioral and cultural change in a complex, mature organisation.
Significant experience of designing, developing, contributing to and implementing workforce EDI strategies at senior levels of a complex organisation.
Experience and examples of how workforce EDI interventions have impacted on organisational success.
Strong track record of successfully working across boundaries at all levels to contribute to organisational success.
Experience of managing and developing teams, setting standards for service delivery, managing performance and supporting professional development and personal wellbeing.
Desirable criteria
Significant experience of designing and implementing workforce EDI interventions to improve strategic outcomes at all levels of the public sector.
Experience of incorporating digital solutions into work programmes.
Evidence of using data analytics to deliver evidence led interventions.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
Expert knowledge of evidence led workforce EDI OD interventions.
Knowledge of leading and designing change programmes of behaviour and culture change.
A strong understanding of the contribution that EDI can make to the performance outcomes of an organisation.
Desirable criteria
Knowledge and understanding of current EDI developments within the NHS.
Skills
Essential criteria
Strong influencing and communications skills across diverse stakeholder communities and recognised as a trusted expert by leaders, employees and colleagues alike.
A strong team player with a flexible approach and the ability to network effectively. Excellent project management skills, and ability to self-manage and deliver within timescale.
Excellent project management skills, and ability to self-manage and deliver within timescale.
Strong facilitation, training and coaching skills.
Good analytical skills i.e. able to design and interpret business KPI’s into measures for EDI interventions.
Strong investigative skills and ability to articulate options and recommendations for consideration.
Ability to work cross-boundary.
Proven consulting, coaching, training and facilitation skills.
Desirable criteria
Evidence of digital transformation capability.
Design Skills – job design, service design or organisation design.
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues, according to the Trust values of safe, kind, excellent.
Actively promotes equality, diversity and inclusion and expects the same of others, leading by example.
Passionate about quality of patient care and service and the people who provide it.
Motivated by continuous improvement and demonstrates evidence of service improvement.
Desirable criteria
Evidence of continuous learning and curiosity about EDI.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Further details / informal visits contact
Name
Susan Nwanze
Job title
Interim Director - Culture, Leadership & Learning
Email address
susan.nwanze2@nhs.net
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