Head of Construction for Enabling Projects

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for the strategic delivery of the construction and commercial elements of the Tomorrow's NUH Enabling Works Programme ensuring best practice, standards, tools and techniques are in place.
• To be have expert specialist knowledge of Trust, Local, Regional and National Capital and Commercial Strategies and ensure that key requirements are fully embedded within the enabling projects.
• To provide specialist advice and support to the Tomorrow's NUH Programme Board in relation to construction and commercial matters.
• To ensure that a system of monitoring and reporting of the key milestones for the Enabling Works Programme and subsequent business cases is in place. This will include reports for the TNUH Estates and Technical workstream, Programme Delivery Group, Programme Boards, Trust Board, the NHP, NHSEI and the DH and HM Treasury.
• Build strong influential relationships with staff at all levels providing the leadership link with each large capital project and NUH procurement, estates and digital teams. Facilitate the resolution of key issues and barriers to progress, escalating as appropriate.
• Build effective alliances to ensure programme priorities are understood and reflect the needs of the organisation and key stakeholders in order to have significant impact on safety, quality, performance, patient and staff experience and staff effectiveness.
• Act as a leader for change ensuring that all activities and plans are effective and fresh, and in line with the latest Trust, ICS, NHSEI, NHP and National Strategies.
• To lead on the procurement of professional services to complete the design and build of the enabling works programme within agreed timescales. This includes: Identification of procurement frameworks for each stage of the commercial and construction phase; Lead the tender process for the PSCP or Main Contractor in accordance with the agreed procurement framework ensuring the best value contract is gained; Maximise the opportunity to save capital money on materials through the procurement stages; Liaising with the New Hospital Programme Team and complying with relevant strategies and guidance.

Person specification

Trainig and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Professional knowledge acquired through degree, supplemented by specialist training to doctorate or equivalent level, leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience.
• Extensive knowledge of the NHS in the acute sector.

Desirable criteria

• Construction qualification.
• Membership of relevant professional body or chartered status.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience within the Healthcare sector at a very senior manager level including responsibility for strategic projects and programmes of change.
• Proven track record of delivering to challenging targets.
• Experience of leading and managing programmes, with considerable experience delivering large capital schemes in the healthcare sector.
• Experience of business case development for large or complex capital projects including proven experience in writing business cases and of the work streams including Clinical Strategy, Workforce, IT and Estates.
• Considerable project management experience of delivering large capital schemes in the healthcare sector
• Experience of negotiating with private companies.
• Knowledge of the New Hospital Programme

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge and applied understanding of the context and challenges of leaders in health and health care settings.
• Experience of working in the construction industry.

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent communications skills, written and oral.
• Ability to build successful teams.
• Able to work collaboratively with partner organisations and regulatory authorities.
• Ability to influence and motivate staff at all levels to deliver challenging targets.
• Able to influence the direction and decisions of work streams, programme and project boards, services, contractors, the Trust Board and, as required, external stakeholders.
• Ability to understand and present complex data in a simple understandable manner.
• Proven negotiating skills and ability to communicate in challenging situations.
• Ability to manage conflict.
• Accountable for outputs and management of a significant capital budget.
• Manage own workload and use initiative to drive the project forwards.
• Highly developed motivational, influencing and negotiating skills, with proven experience of success at the most senior levels of organisations and stakeholders.
• Effective communication skills and proven experience in being able to communicate in a clear and articulate manner using tact and diplomacy in managing difficult people and situations.
• Ability to deal calmly and effectively in situations where there is resistance to messages being delivered and when the organisation that is being negotiated with is hostile.
• Able to effectively use highly contentious information during commercial negotiations and in situations of major change.
• Able to lead and gain buy in for changes to existing processes and deal proactively and effectively with change resistance.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to understand and convey complex messages to a diverse audience at varying levels, including senior management, both within the Trust and in external organisations.

Analytical and Judgment Skills

Essential criteria

• Strategic thinking
• Excellent problem solving skills using team when appropriate
• Critically analyse highly complex financial, activity and other datasets and able to make appropriate judgements and decisions.
• Business focused
• Sensitive to clinical and political demands
• Innovative thinker with the ability to cut through barriers to change.
• Evidence of working with numerical data and ability to critically analyse, interpret and present complex, multi-stranded data in appropriate forms.
• Ability to think laterally, identify and evaluate options and present workable solutions
• Presents plans supported by reasoned argument and evidence.
• Ability to understand complex legal contracts and trade off competing factors (e.g. risk and size of contracts) to determine the best approach to a situation
• Ability to make judgements involving highly complex commercial information and using analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options
• Ability to understand the risk to the Trust and use judgement to know when to escalate legal and contractual issues to get advice from external commercial advisers and/or lawyers
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• As a lead specialist within a programme of work, be able to apply analytical and critical reasoning skills to analyse highly complex facts including financial and clinical data and situations requiring interpretation and comparison of a range of options
• Ability to constructively challenge the status quo to ensure the best outcome for patients and the organisation
• Excellent problem solving skills
• Focused on quality, productivity and prevention of issues

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent organisation skills
• Ability to sustain high workload through times of service and organisational pressure
• Ability to chair and/or participate actively in meetings, seminars and conferences
• Performance management skills and techniques to enable accurate real-time progress reporting.
• Ability to diagnose and take remedial action where programmes are slipping from their targets.
• Able to work independently and on own initiative.
• Develop business plans and strategies for developing commercial opportunities and exploiting opportunities with external partners.
• Ability to work on own initiative/self starter, but integrate within the team.
• Ability to understand and work within the relevant policy constraints and establish the way that they should be interpreted and applied.
• Ability to work under significant pressure, to short deadlines and manage conflicting priorities whilst continuing to deliver high quality work.
• Work independently but know when to escalate issues to senior management/Board and when to brief them to keep them appropriately updated.
• Ability to understand and work within the relevant policy constraints, keeping abreast of developments and changes in policy that may impact on construction or commercial activities.
• Proven record of pro-active performance management.

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria

• Highest standards of personal integrity matched with openness to new ideas, concepts and ways of working.
• Evidence of self-awareness and ability/desire to enhance own and others
• The ability to act autonomously to develop solutions to complex multifaceted challenges whilst ensuring that any corporate operating models are followed and applied.

Physical Skills

Essential criteria

• Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information.
• Able to concentrate for prolonged periods on complex legal and commercial papers and during discussions and complex negotiations.
• Able to deal with interruptions that require immediate response.
• Ability to know when to challenge the conventional thinking in the Trust and be able to deal with it proactively and sensitively.

Other requirements specific to the role (e.g. be able to work shifts/on call)

Essential criteria

• Commitment to quality and continuous improvement.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

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Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

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• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month's pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
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Documents to download

• Head of Construction for Enabling Projects_JD (PDF, 848.3KB)
• Head of Construction for Enabling Projects_PS (PDF, 336.6KB)
• Mindful Employer (PDF, 242.5KB)
• Equality and Diversity (PDF, 122.3KB)
• Equal Opportunities (PDF, 57.4KB)
• Disability Confidence Scheme (PDF, 51.0KB)
• Rehabilitation of Ex Offenders (PDF, 106.0KB)