Principal Consultant – Healthcare Operational & Financial Improvement

• 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.
• This role can be based in our London Victoria or Manchester locations 

Become part of the team 

Shape system-wide improvement across UK healthcare 

We are looking for an experienced Principal Consultant to join our Healthcare Operations & Improvement team. Someone who combines deep NHS operational expertise with consulting delivery experience and is motivated to deliver tangible, system-wide impact. 

In this role, you will lead complex, high-impact engagements across NHS Trusts, Integrated Care Systems and national bodies, helping clients address some of their most pressing challenges in productivity, workforce, financial sustainability and service transformation. 

This is an opportunity to move beyond advisory work and play a hands-on role in delivering measurable operational and financial improvements that directly impact patient outcomes.

What you will do 

As a Principal Consultant, you will: 

• Lead delivery of large-scale NHS transformation programmes 
• Operational and financial productivity improvement 
• Cost Improvement Programmes (CIPs) and efficiency portfolios 
• System-wide transformation across ICSs and provider collaboratives 
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior NHS stakeholders 
• Engage at Board / Executive level within Trusts and systems 
• Navigate complex stakeholder environments and competing priorities 
• Drive delivery of measurable outcomes 
• Translate analysis into actionable change 
• Ensure benefits realisation and sustainability of improvements 
• Lead and develop project teams 
• Provide direction, coaching and quality assurance