Project Manager - Making Every Contact Count | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich, Colchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare foundation trust in Ipswich is seeking a Project Manager to lead the Making Every Contact Count (MECC) initiative. The role involves promoting MECC practices, engaging clinicians, and monitoring project outcomes. Candidates should have experience in project management and ideally in healthcare. The position offers generous benefits, including NHS discounts and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in leading projects in a healthcare setting.
• Ability to engage with clinicians and stakeholders effectively.
• Knowledge of health inequalities and quality improvement principles.

Responsibilities

• Develop and establish the MECC approach across the Trust.
• Engage and enable colleagues to undertake MECC conversations.
• Monitor and improve progress of the MECC project outputs.

Skills

Engagement skills

Project management

Communication

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Project Manager to support with Making Every Contact Count (MECC) across ESNEFT. This post is Fixed Term/Secondment until 31st March 2027.

You will promote MECC across the Trust sites, working closely with clinicians and partners to continue the delivery and promotion of the project. You will work with colleagues and delivery partners across the Integrated Care System (ICS) to promote MECC conversations and place patient well-being at the heart of your approach.

Key responsibilities include:

• To develop and establish the MECC approach across the Trust and community settings, in collaboration with our ICB and community partners.
• To engage and enable colleagues to undertake MECC conversations.
• To support, facilitate, promote, monitor and improve progress of the MECC project outputs and outcomes.
• To promote the MECC and Quality improvement (QI) approaches by supporting developing Health Inequality and Trust projects to adopt MECC principles.

ESNEFT Employees will be offered on a secondment basis. You will work with the Clinical Leads, partner organisations and other key stakeholders to drive forward the delivery of MECC.

As an engagement specialist, the MECC Project Manager will actively encourage, train and support clinical teams to have MECC conversations with patients across clinical settings. You will network and liaise with health professionals and others within the Trust, providing specialist knowledge and expertise around MECC.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. We pride ourselves on supporting our staff, offering a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Our benefits include a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

This advert closes on Thursday 9 Oct 2025