# Chief Performance, Improvement and Transformation Officer > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-performance-improvement-and-transformation-officer/3ddcdaa7-976b-45f7-b964-8ab002a1b5eb - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-performance-improvement-and-transformation-officer/3ddcdaa7-976b-45f7-b964-8ab002a1b5eb.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** North View - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Transformation manager - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-12T11:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-30T15:41:03.480Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Preswtich/Greater_Manchester_Mental_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Performance_Improvement_Transformation/Performance_Improvement_Transformation-v8334527 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8334527?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.gmmh.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview At Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, we are determined to deliver on our vision of great places for care and great places to work. This is an important time for our Trust. We are focused on improving quality, strengthening performance, delivering sustainable transformation and ensuring that people who use our services receive consistently safe, effective and compassionate care. We are seeking an exceptional leader to join our Executive Team as our new Chief Performance, Improvement and Transformation Officer. This is a newly created Board-level role with responsibility for bringing together performance, improvement and transformation into a single, integrated portfolio. The successful candidate will help create a clear line of sight from strategy to delivery, ensuring that improvement becomes the Trust’s operating model and that priorities translate into measurable outcomes for patients, carers, colleagues and our communities. Reporting directly to the Chief Executive and serving as a member of the unitary Board, you will lead the Trust's approach to performance management, improvement methodology, transformation delivery, programme management and organisational productivity. You will provide leadership across clinical, operational and corporate services, strengthening accountability, supporting delivery and helping the organisation improve at pace. ### Main duties of the job We are looking for a values-led executive leader with significant experience of leading performance, improvement, and transformation within large, complex organisation. Ideally, you will bring experience of leading performance, or improvement, or transformation within mental health services, enabling you to quickly understand the operational, clinical and regulatory context and make an early impact. If you are motivated by making a difference at scale and believe that improvement, performance and transformation should be inseparable, we would be delighted to hear from you. For an informal conversation about the role, please contact Chris Oliver, Chief Executive Officer. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities See attached job description and person specification for detailed information........................................................................................................................... ### Applicant requirements This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Master’s degree or equivalent senior-level knowledge and experience. Evidence of continuing professional and leadership development. **Desirable** - Relevant qualification in improvement science, programme or project management, coaching, organisational development, analytics or change leadership. ### Skills & Abilities **Essential** - Ability to synthesise complex qualitative and quantitative evidence, exercise sound judgement and communicate a clear course of action. Strategic and political awareness; able to operate effectively in ambiguity and under scrutiny. - Exceptional written, verbal, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills. Able to provide constructive challenge and explain complex issues clearly to Boards, staff, partners and communities. **Desirable** - Knowledge of population health, inequalities, demand and capacity modelling, or comparative analytics. - Experience of media, public or formal stakeholder engagement. ### Experience & Knowledge **Essential** - Substantial senior leadership experience in a large, complex and multi-professional organisation. Experience of leading across organisational boundaries and contributing to corporate governance and strategic decision-making. - Significant experience of designing or leading organisational performance frameworks; interpreting complex intelligence; identifying risk and variation; and securing corrective action and sustained improvement. - Demonstrable leadership of complex improvement and transformation programmes with measurable outcomes. Strong knowledge of improvement methods, change leadership, measurement and implementation - Experience of prioritising and governing a complex portfolio, managing dependencies and resources, and assuring milestones, risks, benefits and sustainability. - Experience of improving productivity and value while protecting or improving quality, outcomes and experience. Ability to connect operational, workforce, financial and clinical perspectives. - Track record of building credible partnerships and influencing senior stakeholders across organisational and professional boundaries. - Values-led, inclusive and compassionate leader with high integrity, resilience, curiosity and learning orientation. Creates accountability and psychological safety, develops others and works effectively as part of a unitary Board. **Desirable** - Executive or Board-level experience within the NHS or wider public sector. - Experience of Board-level performance reporting and regulatory assurance. - Experience of enterprise-wide improvement operating models, Lean approaches, quality management systems or large-scale system change. - Programme or portfolio management accreditation. - Experience of leading recurrent efficiency or benefits realisation programmes. - Experience of place-based, provider collaborative or integrated care system transformation. - Coaching qualification or substantial coaching practice. ## Documents - [important candidate information (pdf, 2.5mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=931) - [job description / person specification (pdf, 192.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10657932) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.