Job vacancy: Senior Implementation & Adoption Manager, Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield

Job summary

Main area: NOE CPC - CMSP
Grade: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 173-01526-COR

Employer: Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Don Valley House
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £55,690 - £62,682 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/01/2026 23:59
Interview date: 11/02/2026

Senior Implementation & Adoption Manager

Band 8a

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will manage the day to day activities of the I&A Team and provide support and advice to the team where necessary on development of projects and thereby savings and improvement opportunities. You will manage the day to day activities related to the National Healthcare Uniform project as a priority, providing reporting data when needed on activities and reporting to management meetings on uptake.

You will provide a source of both commercial product knowledge and implementation support activity to the NHS Trusts, with focus on engaging the new ICS organisations whilst capturing customer insights for feedback to the internal teams to align policy objectives and prioritise service development initiatives. You will be key to identifying and developing new initiatives for the wider team to pursue.

You will be a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual, with a passion to make a positive difference within our NHS. You will function as part of a wider team but will be comfortable working alone without direct supervision.

You should be able to demonstrate strong personal skills, a sound understanding of public procurement, together with both experience and enthusiasm for developing functioning relationships across a wide customer base. Whilst being a good communicator, you will have a strong customer focused ethos and broad commercial acumen.

The role requires you to provide a source of customer interaction and engagement, to develop commercial product knowledge, contractual understanding and implementation support activity to the NHS Trusts whilst managing the day to day activities of our team of Implementation and Adoption Specialists and providing category support to our Procurement Colleagues. You will be expected to provide both product knowledge to our customer base and customer insight and feedback to support our team colleagues; to support the aligning of policy objectives and prioritising service development initiatives. Identifying and evaluating opportunities to progress procurement productivity and deliver on the overall NHS efficiency plans to the NHS Customer base on behalf of the NOE CPC as part of the NHS Supply Chain Operating Model within the function.

Reporting to the Head of Implementation and Adoption and working as part of the wider team covering England, you will:-

· Be responsible for engagement with a range of NHS Trusts from which you will identify potential opportunities to expand the existing market share of our framework agreements and deliver best value options to the trusts. This will require ongoing engagement and interaction with customers ensuring timely responses and appropriate advice is given.

· Provide a source of product expertise to our customers, delivering on sales, developing initiatives and implementation of individual category projects.

· Identify and evaluate opportunities to progress procurement productivity and efficiency plans on a national basis and manage activity with the wider team.

· Be responsible for managing existing customer needs and developing new customer requirements across the NHS Trusts supporting existing users and developing new business opportunities across the wider sustainable groups.

· Provide additional support to the Head of Implementation & Adoption managing the deliverables from the wider team and developing category initiatives with the procurement team whilst working with the Suppliers to deliver projects.

· Provide support for liaison with colleagues at SCCL ensuring all deliverables are met in a timely manner and engage when necessary with the Head Office team.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Degree level education or related experience in a similar field
Business management qualifications (or working towards) or demonstrable knowledge and experience in a related area.

Skills

Essential criteria

Procurement understanding and the ability to benchmark and manage data is essential.
Ability to manage data, producing charts and benchmarking is essential.

Experience

Essential criteria

Previously working in a customer facing, commercial environment, working with Suppliers and NHS trusts.
Sales and customer relationship experience with the ability to credibly communicate and negotiate at all levels including very senior management and to engage at board level with support.
Proven experience of bringing a project to fruition, delivering service improvements and cost benefits with evidenced savings.

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of the NHS, its structures and workforce would be advantageous and also some knowledge of Procurement, its structures and regulations.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.

The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work. Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.

All new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorize Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.