Healthcare Operational and Financial Improvement Consultant

PA Consulting; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking talented individuals for healthcare operational improvement roles in Manchester. This position requires experience in financial and operational improvement, with responsibilities including facilitating workshops and managing complex stakeholder relationships. Strong leadership and interpersonal skills are essential. The role offers a hybrid working arrangement and various benefits, including a generous pension scheme and performance-based bonus.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave plus extra days

Generous company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Qualifications

• Experience delivering improvement in healthcare operational environments.
• Past experience in large-scale cost improvement projects.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders within an organization.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate workshops and manage complex stakeholder relationships.
• Provide evidence-based insights to clients.
• Work directly with clients to solve operational challenges.

Skills

Experience in healthcare financial improvement

Project management skills

Stakeholder management

Operational risk management

Digital technology deployment

Leadership skills

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Overview

Company Description: We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists with deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands. PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Responsibilities

• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
• Roles can be based in our London or Manchester office.
• Apply ASAP.
• Facilitating workshops, providing compelling, evidence-based insights and helping to manage complex and senior stakeholders. We pride ourselves on partnering with clients, providing a service that delivers real and long-lasting value.
• Our Operations and Improvement consultants are expected to be hands-on, working together with our clients to bring energy, direction and expertise in helping to solve the most difficult operational and supply chain challenges.

Qualifications

• We are seeking talented individuals with experience across healthcare financial and operational improvement with a range of clinical and non-clinical backgrounds.
• We are looking for candidates with skills and experience in the following areas:
• Core experience of delivering improvement in healthcare operational environments from patient facing role to corporate and commercial roles.
• Previous experience in delivering large scale Cost improvement / Productivity using project management principles.
• Core experience of working and delivering within the Healthcare sector.
• A track record of realising business benefits and improved outcomes in healthcare setting.
• Experience deploying advanced techniques such as digital technologies, cost improvement, change management, operational risk management and supply chain management.
• The ability to demonstrate leadership skills in large and diverse project teams.
• Experience working in partnership with clinical and operational teams to deliver improved performance.
• Confidence to work across multiple levels of an organisation, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and navigate challenging discussions.
• An aptitude for delivering creative and ingenious solutions.
• Experience working/delivering in one of the following sub-sectors: Healthcare in public and private sectors (DHSC, NHS Trusts, healthcare delivery providers).
• Independent working capability with strong stakeholder relationships and commitment to high customer service and business standards.
• Excellent interpersonal and team-working skills; able to navigate system finance, care model design, governance, capacity and workforce modelling, clinical and operational excellence as part of wider teams.
• A drive for personal and professional progression.

Benefits

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work. Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We are focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Life at PA. We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits. We’re committed to advancing equality and welcome applications from underrepresented groups. If you need adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, please contact us.