Redevelopment Head of Healthcare Planning

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 14,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

As the Redevelopment Head of Healthcare Planning, you will be pivotal in ensuring that the clinical design and associated service transformation across our redeveloped sites create better hospitals that deliver better health, for life. You will lead the healthcare planning team, manage key aspects of clinical design, and ensure the efficient running of our hospitals. Your responsibilities will include healthcare planning, operating models, commissioning, risk management, and financial and progress reporting. You will engage with external stakeholders to include the New Hospital Programme and regulatory bodies, external contractors and suppliers. You will report to the Clinical Design Director and be responsible for regular reporting to the Trust Executive and Board Committees, providing assurance on the management of risks and compliance.

Future Impact

This role offers the chance to make a lasting difference to standards of patient care and staff wellbeing. By leading the healthcare planning, you will help create state-of-the-art facilities that support modern patient pathways and up-to-date models of care. Your work will contribute to the efficient running of our hospitals and the delivery of high-quality care, education, and research.

Recruitment key dates
• Interview - Stage 1 - informal conversation (early Feb)

-Interview Stage 2 - panel interview with presentation (Mid to end Feb TBC)

Main duties of the job

Responsible for delivering healthcare planning expertise, evidence-based clinical design, and best practices to ensure quality-assured hospitals that support high-quality care, education, and research. Oversee resource management, clinical design documentation, and business case development for investment proposals.

Support the Redevelopment Clinical Design Director in leading the Healthcare Planning team, ensuring alignment with programme objectives and Trust goals. Lead healthcare planning and operational commissioning for projects, ensuring effective user engagement, adherence to standards, and delivery of high-quality infrastructure.

Maintain strong internal and external relationships, assess performance, and integrate new initiatives. Engage external consultants for compliance with Trust policies and redevelopment schemes. Develop relationships with divisional leadership, suppliers, and external bodies to ensure strategic alignment and programme efficiency.

Support recruitment, induction, and ongoing education for the Healthcare Planning team and wider Clinical design team. Conduct research on healthcare design trends and best practices. Represent the Trust in senior meetings, regional/national conferences, and working groups. Manage financial targets, mitigate risks, and ensure cost-effective service delivery. Act as an ambassador for the Trust, contributing to the success of the redevelopment programme.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to master level in relevant area or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience in specialist area
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable criteria

• Relevant first degree
• Relevant postgraduate qualification
• Recognised management qualification at postgraduate level and/or experience
• Completion of project management skills course, e.g. PRINCE2

Experience

Essential criteria

• Senior healthcare planning experience in acute hospitals.
• NHS Senior clinical or management level experience
• Experience of leading complex healthcare planning projects
• Delivery of multi £million healthcare capital projects in live clinical environments
• understanding and implementation of best practice in major projects and programmes

Desirable criteria

• Experience of liaising and working with external design teams and/or government departments
• Experience of using ProCure22 (P22) framework for the development and delivery of NHS Capital schemes.

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to respond to a changing environment, be flexible and have high ambiguity tolerance
• Analytical skills, drawing out key points and analysing complex data
• Ability to conceptualize the end vision while attending to the detail.
• Able to convey complex material/messages simply.
• Able to prepare and present reports on complex issues to a range of audiences

Desirable criteria

• Confident with a positive approach to work

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

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Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 632.5KB)
• Functional requirements (PDF, 232.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)