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The Systems Change Manager will play a key hands-on role in supporting the successful adoption of digital change across Cygnet’s healthcare services. Sitting within the Project Management Office (PMO) in the Digital Services team, this role will focus on practical change delivery across multiple concurrent programmes, working in fast-paced, evolving and often ambiguous environments.
This role is ideally suited to someone with experience in clinical, healthcare, or similarly regulated settings, who is comfortable operating within governance, safety and compliance constraints while still enabling progress and momentum. The postholder will work across clinical, operational and corporate systems and will be expected to pick up projects quickly and operate with minimal supervision, applying established change management methodologies in practice.
The Systems Change Manager will work closely with Project Managers, Business Analysts, Digital Services, Learning & Development (L&D), and frontline stakeholders to ensure that system implementations are supported by effective stakeholder engagement, change impact assessment, communications, training support and post-go-live reinforcement.
This is a delivery-focused role and forms a key part of the PMO change capability, supporting both clinical and non-clinical transformation initiatives.
Scope of Systems
The role will support change across a broad portfolio, including:
- Clinical systems (e.g. electronic patient records, prescribing systems)
- Operational systems (e.g. audit platforms, workforce management, governance tools)
- Business and corporate systems (e.g. HR, recruitment, learning, finance, collaboration tools)
Key Responsibilities
Change Delivery & Adoption Support
Independently deliver core change management activities across multiple projects, including:
- Stakeholder analysis and engagement planning
- Change impact assessments
- Communications planning and delivery
- Readiness and adoption assessments
- Apply change management methodologies pragmatically, adapting approach to suit project maturity, risk and pace.
- Operate confidently in environments with evolving scope, incomplete information and competing priorities.
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
- Build effective working relationships with clinical, operational, and corporate stakeholders at all levels.
- Support Project Managers and Business Analysts to embed change thinking into project plans and delivery.
- Work with clinical and operational teams to validate “real-world” workflows and identify adoption risks early.
- Act as a trusted delivery partner, balancing challenge with pragmatism in regulated settings.
Training Support & PMO–L&D Interface
- Support the coordination and delivery of training activity for system implementations, working alongside L&D and project teams.
- Bridge the gap between project-led change and business-as-usual learning, helping ensure training approaches are realistic, role-appropriate and sustainable.
- Where required, contribute directly to training delivery (e.g. facilitating sessions, supporting hands-on learning), even where this has not been the primary focus of previous roles.
Super Users (Project-Specific)
- Support the identification and engagement of project-specific Super Users or local experts, where required by individual programmes.
- Help clarify expectations, responsibilities and escalation routes for Super Users during delivery and go-live.
- Ensure Super User input informs change planning, communications and training approaches.
Post-Go-Live Support & Continuous Improvement
- Support post-go-live stabilisation activities, including targeted reinforcement, follow-up engagement and issue triage.
- Capture lessons learned and feed practical insights back into PMO ways of working.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of change tools, templates and approaches across the portfolio.
Health, Safety and Security:
All employees have a duty to report any accidents, complaints, defects in equipment, near misses and untoward incidents, following company procedures.
To ensure that Health and Safety legislation is complied with at all times, including COSHH, Workplace Risk Assessment and Control of Infection.
Company Values
Responsible for embodying, and encouraging in others, the Company Values, using the behaviours identified for each value as a basis for decision making and your behaviour.
Equal Opportunities
It is the responsibility of every person to act in ways that support equality and diversity. Equality and diversity is related to the actions and responsibilities of everyone. You are required to carry out your duties in line with the companies policies and procedures, including relevant legislation, to deliver and promote inclusion and equity in treatment of colleagues and those within our care and access to opportunity at work at all times.
Mandatory Training
Be aware of and undertake mandatory and other training requirements necessary for the successful and safe performance of your job, including relevant updates.
Any other duties necessary for the successful performance of the role.
Key Skills & Experience
Essential / Strongly Desired Experience
- Experience working in change management or transformation roles, ideally within digital or systems-led programmes.
- Experience working in clinical, healthcare, or similarly regulated environments, with an understanding of governance, safety and compliance constraints.
- Experience working across multiple projects simultaneously in fast-paced or agile environments.
- Demonstrable experience delivering core change activities independently (stakeholder analysis, CIA, comms planning).
- Exposure to PMO or transformation environments is highly desirable.
Skills & Attributes
- Strong critical thinking skills and the ability to quickly make sense of complex or incomplete information.
- Comfortable working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with evolving priorities.
- Strong organisational and multi-tasking capability.
- Practical, delivery-focused mindset with the confidence to work autonomously.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, particularly with clinical and operational audiences.
- Ability to balance pace with assurance in safety-critical settings.
Qualifications / Desirable
- Change Management qualification (e.g. APMG Change Management, Prosci) desirable.
- Background in clinical practice, healthcare operations, quality, governance, or regulated services highly desirable.
- Experience contributing to or supporting training delivery is advantageous.
What We Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package (aligned to experience).
- Opportunity to play a key delivery role within a major, multi-year digital transformation programme.
- Exposure to a wide range of clinical and non-clinical systems and stakeholders.
- A collaborative PMO environment with scope to grow change capability and experience.
Please note: successful candidates will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.
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