Senior Consultant - Healthcare Planning

Job Description

Mott MacDonald

We’re a global engineering, management, and development consultancy.
Our purpose is to improve society by considering social outcomes in everything we do, relentlessly focusing on excellence and digital innovation, transforming our clients’ businesses, our communities and employee opportunities.

A fundamental part of this is respecting each person’s differences and striving to meet their needs.

We are proud to be a one of Glassdoor’s top employers to work for in the UK, as well as being recognised as a Top Inclusive Company in the UK.

Our values: Progress, Respect, Integrity, Drive, Excellence.

About the role and the team:

Appointed by the Global Health Portfolio Leader and reporting to the Healthcare Planning Lead, the Senior Consultant will be responsible for delivery excellence, ensuring that the project is delivered successfully to time and budget and to the standards required by the Client and for Mott MacDonald.

The Senior Consultant Healthcare Planning position would be suitable to a candidate who has consultancy experience or held a role in the NHS, a CCG or local authority (PHE) with experience in healthcare, healthcare planning or information analysis. The role may require some travelling in the UK and possibly internationally.

Our specialist health team is embedded in the delivery of health and healthcare programmes covering 3 key strands:

• ODA (official development assistance) public health work
• Healthcare system design and reconfiguration including healthcare infrastructure delivery
• Embedding health considerations across the work that other business sectors in Mott MacDonald work in.

This team comprises a wide range of health-related professionals including clinicians, healthcare management consultants and programme and project managers. This team works closely across the 3 strands and with other teams across Mott MacDonald’s technical and engineering disciplines. Our healthcare system design and reconfiguration strand cover service redesign and reconfiguration, strategic healthcare planning, evaluation, productivity improvements, impact assessments, change management (including digital interventions) and information analysis and modelling.

Key accountabilities:

• Provide quantitative and qualitative analyses and modelling
• Ability to work as part of a dynamic consultancy team and collaborate with interdisciplinary business and health sector subject matter experts
• Undertake analysis of populational needs and demographics to inform demand models
• Provide data analysis and insights including development of dashboards (for internal and external stakeholders)
• Undertake demand modelling and capacity modelling including statistical analysis
• Lead or contribute to the development of reports, proposals, and the presentation of outputs to different audiences
• Successfully maintain client relationships
• Provide consultancy advice to assist clients with delivery of the technical healthcare planning components of healthcare system and hospital redesign such as implementing new models of care, process mapping and re-design

The successful candidate must be able to possess and demonstrate the following skills and personal attributes:

• Degree / Masters level or equivalent
• Demonstrate a positive, proactive, flexible and organised approach to work
• Track record in supporting the delivery of complex projects in healthcare on time and on budget
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to simplify complex and sensitive information to varying stakeholders
• Problem-solving skills to achieve delivery of a solution or outcome
• Undertake research, analyse data and present findings verbally, in writing or graphically
• Comfortable co-facilitating workshops
• Excellent communication skills
• Commercially astute, recognising opportunities and constraints in relation to the delivery of consultancy services
• Excellent IT skills including Excel and Word and ideally, a passion for innovation
• A good understanding of the NHS environment and ‘ecosystem’
• Experience of supporting business development opportunities, for example, developing new client relationships and writing proposals

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

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Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Agile working

Happy to talk Flexible Working and how we can support your responsibilities beyond the workplace.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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