Imperial College Health Partners
Change Project Manager (Band 8a)
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Can you bring radical, co-created change to a broken system? If so, join Imperial College Health Partners as a Change Project Manager for a Needs-Profiling Pilot.
We are enabling the co-design and delivery of a digitally-enabled and evaluated needs profiling pilot in two London boroughs through which we aim to radically transform neurodiversity support.
The Change Project Manager role
The Change Project Manager role is pivotal to co-designing and delivering this change.
The problem
In North West London alone, neurodevelopmental assessment waiting lists grow to over 8,000 children and young people each year. Children and families wait months while their needs escalate. The current diagnosis-led system is overwhelmed.
The solution
Our vision with needs profiling is to move away from a diagnosis-led medicalized culture towards a needs-led one that normalizes and addresses neurodevelopmental needs. We aspire to a child-led, digitally enabled conversation between pupil, parent and teacher — where strengths, needs and support are identified together. Early, tailored support comes first, with specialist MDT input wrapped around the child whenever needed, including diagnosis only if helpful.
Similar solutions show promise in pioneering sites like Portsmouth and Cambridgeshire but haven’t yet been fully evaluated or digitally enabled. This work is also completely aligned with and enables the shifts to community delivered and holistic needs based support outlined by both the SEND reforms and the neighbourhood integrated teams. We have the commitment of a coalition of families, schools, borough inclusion and early help teams and community child health teams who are determined to co-design and deliver this.
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Apply before Monday 20 July 2026.
About the role
As Change Project Manager you will bring all your energy, creativity, expertise, and empathy to bear in the development, execution, and management of this complex, co-designed system change. You will be an experienced project manager and programme delivery manager and an enterprising and entrepreneurial problem solver who can think laterally and navigate challenges.
You will have a background in service design and transformation especially in leveraging technology and data solutions to drive change and, ideally, will have worked on delivering solutions in health and social care. Our foundational principle for this change is that we will co-design and deliver it as a community network involving NHS, local authority, schools and families on an equal footing. You will contribute experience of and passion for engaging and facilitating diverse groups of stakeholders to come together and co-design and -deliver sustained change.
As one of a team of committed changemakers you will have the privilege of making a radical change to a broken system and unlocking the possibility of large-scale impact that allows families and the teams that support them to thrive. If, like us, you derive your energy from this work and can communicate your optimism and belief to others to help make difficult changemaking also fun and rewarding then you’ll be in the best place doing your best work.
About ICHP's role
The Imperial College Health Partners (ICHP) team is supporting the system to co-design and deliver this pilot, enabling it with supporting technology, a full evaluation and a sustainable growth. We are doing this as part of our wider Mission to support children and young people’s mental health and neurodevelopmental needs.
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Salary: NHS Agenda for Change Band 8a including Higher Cost Area Supplement
Contract: Six-month fixed-term contract (September 2026 - February 2027 with possibility to extend up to 18-months). Start date September 2026
Hours: Full-time - 37.5 (with opportunity for flexible working)
Location: Hybrid working with 1-2 days at main office, 15 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5JD and spending time in pilot sites in Brent and Ealing
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For more information about the role and details on how to apply please read the job description on our website: https://imperialcollegehealthpartners.com/vacancy/change-proect-manager-needs-profiling-pilot
Applications close Monday 20 July 2026 (we reserve the right to close applications early).
There will be an opportunity to ask questions about this role on Monday 13 July 2026, 4pm-5pm. For details of how to join please read the job description on our website: https://imperialcollegehealthpartners.com/vacancy/change-proect-manager-needs-profiling-pilot
First-round interviews to be held w/c 10 August 2026
Second-round interviews to be held w/c 17 August 2026
Further details about the role is on our website: https://imperialcollegehealthpartners.com/vacancy/change-proect-manager-needs-profiling-pilot
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