Senior Performance Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 06/08/2026
- Closes
- 02/09/2026
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Role summary
This is a key leadership role within the Corporate Performance Team, focusing on developing and implementing the Trust's performance management framework. The Senior Performance Manager will ensure delivery of regulatory, contractual, and organisational priorities, working with various stakeholders to strengthen assurance and support high-quality, patient-centred services. The role involves providing expert analysis, identifying risks and trends, and contributing to strategic decision-making to improve performance and service quality.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level (or significant experience coupled with achievement that indicates degree-level ability) in a performance management role
- Knowledge Required
- Experience of working in or with a complex organisation at a senior level in a performance management role
- Track record of achievement in a senior performance role
- Experience in a staff management role
- Knowledge/ Skills/experience
- Specialist knowledge and demonstrable practical experience of performance frameworks and performance management processes in a large complex organisation
- Highly developed analytical skills in the interpretation, manipulation and analysis of complex data in order to identify trends, exceptions and variance to facilitate evidence based decision making/action planning on performance issues.
- Excellent IT/keyboard skills, particularly in relation to creating, formatting and manipulating databases and spreadsheets and preparing complex analysis
- Excellent numeric skills with an understanding of basic statistical concepts such as correlation.
- Ability to interpret and communicate highly complex or highly sensitive information where other leading opinions may conflict or there may be barriers to understanding.
- Ability to make judgements which require analysis, interpretation and comparison across a range of options.
- Ability to make judgements on whether performance appears reasonable to determine whether further action or intervention is required to achieve targets
- Excellent verbal communication skills including the ability to present performance information and delivery training on performance management to a wide range of staff.
- Excellent written skills with the ability to deliver clear, logically constructed and factual based focused reports.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines for own work and those of direct reports
- Ability to influence, negotiate and motivate staff within the team and the wider organisation in terms of the performance agenda
- Experience of gathering and documenting data requirements and the translation of technical specifications to clinical processes and how these align.
Desirable criteria
- In depth knowledge of performance frameworks and performance management processes within the NHS
- Knowledge of regulatory bodies and their requirements, e.g. Care Quality Commission and NHS England.
- Awareness of the environment in which a Foundation Trust operates
- Able to use speciality performance management software
- Understanding of complex statistical concepts such as regression analysis, confidence intervals, statistical significance
- Experience of performance improvement work
- Experience of managing a successful performance management team
- Experience of planning and organising performance management arrangements across organisations
- Personal Attributes
- Able to work within and model the Trust's values/behaviours and compact
- Self awareness and a commitment to undertake development to maximise own performance and impact
- Demonstrating personal responsibility and sound personal organisation, able to prioritise and collaborate at appropriate times
- Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to maintain good relationships
- Motivation and enthusiasm for the role
- Reliable and Flexible
- Able to face varying demands - frequently requiring intense concentration and effort to deliver multiple objectives / conflicting priorities
- Able to challenge poor performance in a constructive way - to act as a critical friend.
- Able to work independently with minimal direction and supervision, within a set framework / boundaries
- Innovative, with a desire to maximise opportunities for developing the efficiency and effectiveness of the individual, the team, the directorate, and the Trust
- Able to think strategically and balance "big picture" requirements against more urgent and detailed operational detail
- Evidence of commitment to self-development
- Qualifications Required
- Educated to degree level (or significant experience coupled with achievement that indicates degree-level ability) in a performance management role
- Knowledge Required
- Experience of working in or with a complex organisation at a senior level in a performance management role
- Track record of achievement in a senior performance role
- Experience in a staff management role
- Knowledge/ Skills/experience
- Specialist knowledge and demonstrable practical experience of performance frameworks and performance management processes in a large complex organisation
- Highly developed analytical skills in the interpretation, manipulation and analysis of complex data in order to identify trends, exceptions and variance to facilitate evidence based decision making/action planning on performance issues.
- Excellent IT/keyboard skills, particularly in relation to creating, formatting and manipulating databases and spreadsheets and preparing complex analysis
- Excellent numeric skills with an understanding of basic statistical concepts such as correlation.
- Ability to interpret and communicate highly complex or highly sensitive information where other leading opinions may conflict or there may be barriers to understanding.
- Ability to make judgements which require analysis, interpretation and comparison across a range of options.
- Ability to make judgements on whether performance appears reasonable to determine whether further action or intervention is required to achieve targets
- Excellent verbal communication skills including the ability to present performance information and delivery training on performance management to a wide range of staff.
- Excellent written skills with the ability to deliver clear, logically constructed and factual based focused reports.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and meet deadlines for own work and those of direct reports
- Ability to influence, negotiate and motivate staff within the team and the wider organisation in terms of the performance agenda
- Experience of gathering and documenting data requirements and the translation of technical specifications to clinical processes and how these alig
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Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Performance Manager
The closing date is 02 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Performance Manager (Band 7) to join our Corporate Performance Team within the Strategy & Transformation Directorate at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a key leadership role at a pivotal time for the Trust as we embed our Integrated Performance Approach and deliver Our Journey to Change. You will play a central role in shaping and driving the Trust's performance management framework, ensuring delivery of regulatory, contractual and organisational priorities.
Working closely with the Head of Performance and Associate Director of Performance, you will collaborate with colleagues across clinical, corporate and partner organisations to strengthen assurance and support the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred services.
This is an exciting opportunity to take on a senior role within a forward-thinking team, where you will lead and influence the performance agenda, contribute to strategic decision-making, work with a wide range of partners and make a direct impact on patient outcomes.
If you are passionate about using data, insight and collaboration to drive improvement, we would love to hear from you.
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