Health and Social Care Improvement Consultant

PA Consulting Group; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

25 days annual leave

Company pension

Annual bonus

Tax efficient benefits

Job summary

PA Consulting Group is recruiting Health and Social Care Improvement Consultants to drive complex transformation across Ireland and Northern Ireland. You will work with health organisations, analyse data, and lead improvements with hands-on delivery and stakeholder engagement.

Roles focus on governance, benefits tracking, and sustainable change while collaborating with PA and client teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Hybrid work and client-site engagements are common.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering improvement or transformation in health and social care or another complex public service.
• Experience supporting large-scale financial improvement, productivity, service redesign or transformation programmes.
• Understanding of the HSC Northern Ireland and/or HSE environment, with NHS or wider UK public sector experience welcomed.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret financial, workforce, operational and service data.
• Experience working with clinical, operational and corporate teams to deliver improved performance and measurable benefits.
• Ability to work confidently across different levels of an organisation and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong project and programme delivery skills with PMO, implementation, benefits realisation or change delivery.
• A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience; postgraduate qualifications desirable.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose challenges and implement improvements with clinical, operational, financial, corporate, and public service teams.
• Analyse financial, workforce, activity and performance data to produce practical recommendations.
• Support design and delivery of improvement, recovery and transformation programmes, including governance and benefits tracking.
• Facilitate workshops and present evidence-based insights to inform senior decisions.
• Improve processes, patient flows, capacity, workforce deployment, procurement or enabling services.
• Create compelling analysis and recommendations and present to senior leaders and boards.
• Track outcomes and benefits, manage delivery risks and embed capability for sustainability.
• Build strong client relationships as part of PA and client teams to deliver outcomes.

Skills

Healthcare improvement

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Problem solving

PMO

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

PMO

Job description

Health and Social Care Improvement Consultant

IDA Business Park, Southern Cross Road, Irishtown, Bray, A98Y6W0, Co. Dublin, Ireland, Bray A98Y6W0, IE

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. And we have 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.

• 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 Belfast or Dublin (Bray) office

Become part of the team

We are recruiting Consultants and Senior Consultants to support our growing health and social care work across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. You will work on complex improvement and transformation programmes, using analysis, practical problem-solving and hands‑on delivery to create measurable and lasting value for clients.

Across Ireland and the UK, we work extensively with Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSC), the Health Service Executive (HSE) in the Republic of Ireland, NHS organisations and wider public services. All our local roles sit within Northern Ireland and Ireland Government & Public Sector, so you will also have the adaptability to contribute to adjacent public service projects where your skills can add value.

You should understand, or be motivated to develop a strong understanding of, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland health, social care and wider public service markets.

Our areas of focus

In the Republic of Ireland and UK, we work directly with individual health and social care organisations including provider trusts, health regions and systems, and departments of health and arm’s length bodies. Our primary areas of focus are:

• Financial and operational improvement and transformation
• Workforce productivity and transformation
• Health and social care analytics
• Procurement and supply chain
• Service and clinical pathway redesign
• Organisational and PMO design and deployment
• Transformation delivery and implementation support

What you will do

• Work collaboratively with clinical, operational, financial, corporate and public service teams to diagnose challenges and implement improvements.
• Analyse financial, workforce, activity and performance information and turn it into clear, practical recommendations.
• Support the design and delivery of improvement, recovery and transformation programmes, including programme governance, benefits tracking and implementation.
• Facilitate workshops, produce compelling evidence‑based insights and support senior stakeholders through complex decisions.
• Improve processes, patient flows, capacity, workforce deployment, procurement or enabling services.
• Create compelling analysis and recommendations and present them confidently to senior leaders and boards.
• Track outcomes and benefits, manage delivery risks and embed capability so improvements are sustained.
• Build strong client relationships and work as part of diverse PA and client teams to deliver sustainable outcomes.

Qualifications

We are looking for people with experience in healthcare, health and social care, management consulting or wider public services, from clinical, operational, analytical, financial, commercial or corporate backgrounds.

• Experience delivering improvement or transformation in health and social care, healthcare or another complex public service environment.
• Experience supporting large‑scale financial improvement, productivity, service redesign or transformation programmes.
• Understanding of the HSC Northern Ireland and/or HSE environment, with relevant NHS or wider UK public sector experience also welcomed.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to interpret financial, workforce, operational and service data.
• Experience working with clinical, operational and corporate teams to deliver improved performance and measurable benefits.
• Ability to work confidently across different levels of an organisation and influence senior stakeholders.
• Strong project and programme delivery skills, with experience of PMO, implementation, benefits realisation or change delivery.
• A relevant degree or equivalent professional experience; relevant postgraduate or professional qualifications are desirable but not essential.

The ideal candidate will also bring experience in one or more of the following

• Financial controls, recovery and sustainability
• Workforce productivity, planning and optimisation
• Operational improvement and service redesign
• Health and social care analytics and modelling
• Procurement, commercial improvement and supply chain
• Urgent and emergency care, outpatients or elective services
• Corporate services, estates or facilities management
• Wider public service transformation and delivery

Our consultants are expected to be hands‑on, working alongside clients to bring energy, structure and expertise to difficult operational and transformation challenges. We are committed to supporting the personal and professional development of our people through meaningful delivery experience, coaching and progression opportunities.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard or equivalent however, some roles, if they involve working in the UK, may a require higher levels of Security Vetting.

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're 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.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well‑being of our people. Check out some of our extensive 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
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [e-mail]