We have an exciting opportunity for a talented, motivated and compassionate leader to join the Clinical and Scientific Service (CSS) Care Group within Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT). This is a great opportunity to join a supportive and inclusive team that provides a diverse range of clinical services, including Anaesthetics, Critical Care, Imaging, Laboratory Medicine, Pharmacy and Allied Health Professionals, across each of MFT's ten hospitals.

Deputy Director of Performance and Operations

Reporting to the CSS Director of Performance and Operations, this role forms a key part of the senior management team and works closely with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues across the Trust, and beyond. As Deputy Director of Performance and Operations you will bring expertise of leading with purpose, a successful track record of managing performance and improvement and the ability to build strong and collaborative relationships with a range of stakeholders.

If you have the right skills, experience, values and attitude to meet the needs of this role, we would love to hear from you. Thankyou for your interest in this position.

Key Responsibilities

• leading all aspects of performance management and service delivery.
• working to ensure the delivery of ambitious targets.
• developing and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• working with colleagues to ensure that quality, performance, value. for patients and budgetary targets are monitored and delivered.
• leading delivery of a range of strategic plans and objectives.
• making a positive contribution to the provision of health services across the Clinical Group, the Trust and the local health and social economy.

Working with the Director of Performance and Operations, the Deputy Director is responsible for the direct delivery of all patient services across the CSS Clinical Group. This involves leading all aspects of performance management and service delivery, working to ensure the delivery of ambitious targets, developing and embedding a culture of continuous improvement and innovation, working with colleagues to ensure that quality, performance, value. for patients and budgetary targets are monitored and delivered, leading delivery of a range of strategic plans and objectives, and making a positive contribution to the provision of health services across the Clinical Group, the Trust and the local health and social economy.

About Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you! This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Oct 2025.