Implementation Consultant — Behavioural Change / Healthcare Productivity Associate (Contractor) — UK-wide

Overview

• Join Meridian to deliver high-impact healthcare implementation projects across the UK, providing better value for the healthcare provider.
• This is not a leadership or IT role. You’ll be embedded in clinical environments, helping teams adopt new clinical practices and improve productivity and outcomes through direct engagement and coaching.
• The ideal candidate will have NHS experience and/or strong implementation experience with a similar productivity based consultancy delivering measurable improvements.
• Projects start: September/October 2025. Contractors must be available for on-site work and adaptable to changing priorities.

What you will contribute:

• Be an agile team member delivering implementation programmes that embed behavioural change across clinical and operational teams.
• Work shoulder to shoulder to support and influence clinicians and managers to redesign workflows, reduce waste and improve patient pathways using GIRFT and other evidence-based approaches.
• Coach, run workshops and engage frontline staff so new practices stick.
• Set and monitor outcome and value metrics (clinical outcomes, waiting times, resource utilisation) and report impact.
• Build strong relationships with senior clinical and operational stakeholders and act as a practical, trusted advisor.
• Produce roadmaps that combine programme delivery with explicit change-management and benefit-realisation plans.

Who we’re looking for

• Proven experience in designing and executing improvement plans as well as implementing change that demonstrably improved clinical outcomes and delivered value for a healthcare provider.
• Thorough understanding of GIRFT or equivalent quality-improvement frameworks and how to apply them in practice.
• Experience in the NHS is ideal — but candidates with equivalent implementation experience in healthcare or related sectors will be considered.
• Strong analytical skills (data to insight), facilitation and influencing skills, and experience presenting to stakeholders at all levels
• Comfortable travelling extensively and able to stay away from home during the working week when required.

We aim to review every application; however, because of high volumes we can only contact shortlisted candidates.