Senior Healthcare Management Consultant in England

At Attain, we are recruiting for a Senior Healthcare Management Consultant role which offers a great opportunity to apply your significant consultancy expertise, strategic thinking, and leadership skills to drive meaningful change within the NHS. We empower passionate, values-driven professionals to make a real difference in healthcare delivery and outcomes.

The opportunity involves collaborating with NHS customers and healthcare organisations to design and deliver impactful change and operational improvements aligned to the NHS 10-year plan. This role will have an initial focus on clinical reconfiguration and delivery of large scale, fast-paced acute sector programmes, as well as the opportunity to lead programmes across cost improvement, service transformation, digital and tech-enabled change.

You will apply your consultancy and leadership skills to deliver complex projects and programmes that achieve sustainable transformation and enhanced outcomes for patients, communities, and teams, including delivery of cost efficiencies, process, and quality improvement.

We are looking for professionals who excel at working in complex systems, identifying challenges, developing meaningful solutions, and leading diverse teams through multifaceted projects and programmes. Your ability to think strategically while executing operationally will be key to success, along with the ability to work with executive clients, senior clinicians, and front-line teams to design and deliver solutions.

Working for us, Attain is defined by our people. We are a collaborative, values-driven team committed to delivering lasting improvements in healthcare.

What your days may look like:

• Design and deliver solutions that improve outcomes, processes, and deliver large scale efficiency including clinical reconfiguration.
• Work with colleagues who are passionate about improving health and care for local communities.
• Lead teams to deliver complex programmes in different systems across the country.
• Travel to different parts of the country, working with clients on site to deliver impactful change.
• Focus on national and local policy development and share your knowledge and expertise.
• Deliver internal work, which helps develop Attain's solutions and drive business development.
• Focus on personal development and career planning to support you to achieve your own personal goals.
• Lead values-driven teams to deliver large scale programmes and achieve associated outcomes.

Type of work:

As a Senior Healthcare Management Consultant at Attain, you will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of projects applying your consultancy experience, for example:

• Clinical re-configuration.
• Cost improvement programmes.
• Service transformation and redesign.
• Digital and technology enabled change including process reviews.
• Consulting projects including strategy development.
• Working across regions, systems, places, and at neighbourhood level.

About you:

We're seeking candidates with:

• Significant experience delivering strategic and operational projects and programmes in healthcare.
• Extensive consulting experience with a track record of successful delivery of client requirements.
• A track record of working with senior stakeholders to influence decision-making and drive change.
• Expertise in leading and managing complex programmes or projects, from inception to delivery.
• Strong programme management skills, including familiarity with relevant tools and methodologies.
• Ability to lead teams, fostering collaboration and accountability.
• Operational or clinical experience, with exposure to provider environments.
• Proficiency in data interpretation and analytics to inform decision-making.
• Microsoft Office expertise, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.

The benefits include:

• Competitive salary.
• Performance/profit-based annual bonus.
• 27 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays on top.
• 6% employer contribution pension scheme.
• Company-paid subscription to a professional body.
• Flexible working opportunities.
• A suite of learning tools to support continuing professional development.
• Experience a rich variety of delivery projects across different care areas.

Looking for future opportunities? We understand that now may not be the right time for everyone to make a career move. However, we would be happy to have a conversation with individuals who are considering future opportunities. At Attain, we're always keen to connect with talented people who share our values.

At Attain, our culture and company values promote a supportive and inclusive environment where our employees' differences are nurtured to enable everyone to reach their full potential. We are committed to a culture where respect and understanding is fostered, and the diversity of people's backgrounds and circumstances are positively valued as they enable Attain to continually bring creativity and innovation to our clients' work and internally. Our recruitment process reflects this commitment, focusing on skills, capabilities, and experience to ensure fairness and equity at every step.