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Partnership Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Experience managing discharge, patient flow, or complex healthcare service programmes
  • Strong operational leadership and stakeholder management skills
  • Commercially capable with experience in business development, contract management, and pricing
  • Confident engaging with senior stakeholders across NHS Trusts, ICBs, and Local Authorities

Responsibilities

  • Develop and manage partnerships with NHS Trusts, ICBs, and Local Authorities
  • Lead the mobilisation and delivery of discharge and patient flow programmes
  • Identify and secure new opportunities through strategic business development
  • Manage contracts, service performance, and stakeholder relationships

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Strategic Thinking

About the company

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SKU Recruitment

  • Staffing & Recruiting
  • TPE
  • 2–10
SKU Recruitment is a specialist recruitment business focused exclusively on operational and commercial leadership hiring for CQC and Ofsted-regulated care providers across the UK. The roles we work on: Registered Managers, Operations Managers, Business Development Managers, Commercial Directors, and Heads of BD - across Complex Care, Domiciliary, Residential, Supported Living, Children's Residential, and Mental Health services. These are the hires that sit vacant longest, carry the most operational risk when unfilled, and are consistently underserved by generalist agencies and job boards. We work with providers when a role is niche, confidential, or business-critical and where getting it wrong isn't an option. Our background includes placing recruiters into healthcare recruitment agencies, so if your business has transitioned from agency into care provision, we understand both sides of that world. Based in London. Working with providers nationwide. 📧 Syed@skurecruitment.co.uk ☎️ +44 2081566595

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Job description

Partnership Manager – Discharge & Patient Flow Services
Remote (London office available – Liverpool Street) Salary up to £60,000 DOE + Bonus (Negotiable)   A growing healthcare consultancy and managed service provider is seeking an experienced Partnership Manager to support the expansion of its discharge and patient flow services across the NHS. This is a senior operational and commercial role focused on building strategic partnerships while delivering scalable service solutions across acute and community settings.  With an established infrastructure already in place including access to a national network of discharge clinicians and support from an in-house homecare team, this role offers the opportunity to lead meaningful service expansion without needing to build delivery capabilities from scratch.   Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and manage partnerships with NHS Trusts, ICBs, and Local Authorities
  • Lead the mobilisation and delivery of discharge and patient flow programmes
  • Identify and secure new opportunities through strategic business development
  • Manage contracts, service performance, and stakeholder relationships
  • Support the design and implementation of scalable service models
  • Work closely with clinical and operational teams to ensure seamless service delivery
  • Provide regular reporting, insights, and commercial planning to support growth
  Requirements
  • Experience managing discharge, patient flow, or complex healthcare service programmes
  • Strong operational leadership and stakeholder management skills
  • Commercially capable with experience in business development, contract management, and pricing
  • Confident engaging with senior stakeholders across NHS Trusts, ICBs, and Local Authorities
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to manage projects from mobilisation through to delivery
  • Clinical background beneficial but not essential
  What’s on Offer
  • Salary up to £60,000 DOE (flexible for exceptional candidates)
  • Fully remote working available
  • Optional London office (Liverpool Street) for those who prefer office attendance
  • Bonus/commission structure open to discussion
  • Opportunity to build and lead a growing service line within a fast-scaling consultancy
  This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced healthcare professional to play a key role in improving patient flow and discharge pathways while contributing to the growth of an innovative consultancy service.

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