Job summary
- Main area
- Project Management Office
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Home or remote working
- Job ref
- 338-7244255-25
- Employer
- Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust HQ
- Town
- Willerby
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Efficiency & Productivity Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8c
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019
Job overview
We are looking for an Efficiency and Productivity Manager to join the Trust.
This is a critical role in driving operational excellence and maximising resource utilisation within the Trust.
The post holder will drive service excellence by leading initiatives that integrate productivity, quality improvement, and transformational change across services, ensuring patient-centred, efficient, and sustainable care delivery.
Main duties of the job
The post holder’s primary focus will be on identifying areas for improvement and implementing best practices to achieve cost efficiencies without compromising the quality of patient care. The post holder will collaborate closely with senior leadership, service leads, and stakeholders to develop and execute comprehensive action plans that address financial, operational, and cultural challenges.
The post holder will lead the PMO/QI in identifying areas of potential cost reduction, analysing existing processes, and implementing sustainable solutions that improve operational efficiency and financial outcomes whilst monitoring progress.
Working for our organisation
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Lead the design and delivery of quality improvement initiatives and transformational change programs that enhance patient outcomes, streamline processes, and support the continuous development of services.
• Identify opportunities, develop and implement strategies to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and optimise operational efficiency across the organisation
• Collaborate with divisional and directorate leads to identify opportunities for productivity improvement, performance and operational efficiencies across all areas of the Trust. This will include supporting colleagues to refine existing transformation and change plans to consolidate opportunities into robust plans, establishing and/or translating metrics and improvement analytics to add value and link with Trust established performance monitoring systems.
• Implement performance improvement initiatives, using QI methodologies and process re-engineering, to streamline operations, support quality indicators and reduce costs.
• Support Directors, General Managers, Clinical Leads and other colleagues with the development and implementation of initiatives that relate/contribute to productivity, efficiency and cost reduction.
• Collaborate with divisional leadership teams, directorate leads, clinicians, and other stakeholders to identify areas of inefficiency and waste and develop plans to deliver improvement opportunities.
• Provide regular updates and reports to the Executive Team on the progress of the service change, productivity and efficiency plans, highlighting achievements, challenges, and recommended adjustments as needed.
• Key to the role will be supporting the Service Planning and Transformation group and the Performance and Productivity Group to align and integrate their agendas now that both groups have clear priorities and focus
Person specification
Qualifications, Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent experience
- Highly analytical and numerate
- Project Management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Member of a professional accountancy body e.g. ACA, CIMA, ACCA
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Project Management experience
Desirable criteria
- Completion of a recognised QI programme
- Knowledge of Monday.com
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Jenkinson
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Operating Officer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07789864266
- Additional information
Lynn Parkinson
Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer
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