Senior Capital Project Manage

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Job overview

This post forms an essential component of the Capital Project Team delivering UHL's complex £multi-million Capital Programme consisting of New Build and Refurbishment projects, delivering priority projects linked to Trust strategy and addressing estates capital backlog including statutory compliance.

The postholder will contribute to management of a team of project managers supported by clinical colleagues and teams of in-house and externally appointed specialist advisors, design teams and construction partners.

We are looking for applicants ideally from an architectural, surveying, construction, engineering, building or project management background with a proven track record in the Estates field delivering:

• construction and civil engineering projects
• mechanical and electrical infrastructure projects

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be an experienced professional, highly motivated with excellent communication skills, strong leadership and project management experience.

Successful delivery of UHL Capital projects within agreed time, cost and quality parameters, continually monitoring and ensuring accurate reporting against financial and programme management.

As a senior leader in the Capital Projects Team, the post holder will also be asked to share directorate-wide responsibilities and lead workstreams relating to other aspects of the Reconfiguration and Capital Programme.

Working for our organisation

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).

We have four primary goals:

• high-quality care for all,
• being a great place to work,
• partnerships for impact, and
• research and education excellence

And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.

Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:

• we are compassionate,
• we are proud,
• we are inclusive, and
• we are one team

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacanc...

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Programme Management

1. Ensure project scopes are clearly defined and agreed. Work with wider project team to deliver the project scope within agreed time, cost and quality parameters, continually monitor and ensure robust and accurate reporting against these,
2. Develop options appraisals from highly complex facts and information
3. Lead multi-discipline teams to deliver best-fit solutions and manage conflicting requirements to negotiate successful outcomes,
4. Ensure that expectations are managed through design and construction,
5. Communication and reporting within projects, administering a range of common construction contracts, monitoring health and safety cross-site and ensuring that all correct procedures are followed,

Technical

1. Possess and maintain a good working knowledge of technical guidance and best-practice, including understanding of common forms of construction Contracts (Eg JCT, NEC)
2. Oversee technical commissioning of the project, ensuring that adequate time is allowed, that results are robust, satisfactory and stand-up to scrutiny,
3. Ensure that all necessary independent advisors are consulted and that validations are successfully completed.

Relationship Management

1. Communicate and negotiate effectively with key stakeholders including cross-directorate leads, external approvers and professional advisors to:
   1. Achieve necessary approvals,
   2. Manage expectations,
   3. Report on progress, risks, issues, processes and procedures,
   4. Responding to both positive and negative feedback, demonstrating consideration of comments.
2. Manage appointed project teams consisting of internal project management resource and external specialist advisors
3. Ensure engagement of all stakeholders, including authorising engineers and operational estates colleagues,
4. Manage conflicting requirements in order to deliver a functional solution which meets the project objectives,

Leadership

1. Manage and support all accountable members of the project team
2. Establish project teams to ensure the right membership in delivering a breadth of project requirements,
3. Undertake appraisals to include personal development, advice, mentoring and support to subordinate team members including day-to-day administration of staff, sickness and performance management, grievances and disciplinary issues,
4. Share knowledge, market knowledge and lessons learned with colleagues to help others achieve successful outcomes;

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Relevant professional building or engineering qualification (MCIOB, RICS, APM, RIBA, CIBSE, IHEEM, MIMechE, MIEE) or appropriate Masters level or relevant working experience equivalent to the above.
• In depth knowledge of the Capital processes and documentation.

Desirable criteria

• Project Management Qualification (e.g. PRINCE2)

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working experience of a senior project manager role for at least 5 years.
• Experience of successfully managing and delivering multi-faceted, complex major capital projects
• In-depth understanding of Statutory Legislation and NHS Standards and understanding of common forms of Construction Contract (e.g JCT, NEC3).
• Possess an understanding of clinical services, health service design guidance, health service procurement guidance as well as private sector guidance and regulatory standards.
• Budgetary management of projects and programmes of capital investment including forecasting and financial management of multi-million pound contracts.

Desirable criteria

• NHS Capital Construction Management experience in an acute setting.

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to provide and receive highly complex information at all levels within the Trust and with external stakeholders.
• Ability to adapt to unpredictable work patterns. Ability to communicate effectively in writing, including formal report writing.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to analyse, interpret highly complex facts, situations and events including confidential financial and commercial data.
• As an expert in the field be able to provide judgment on situations or information when this information may differ from experts.

Planning & Organising Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to manage and deliver complex competing demands and deadlines in a pressured environment.
• Ability to develop and formulate strategic plans and programmes and resource requirements, and communicate effectively the impact of these on the organisation.
• Ability to motivate and organise others.

Additional Information

Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.

UHL is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds who match our job criteria.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

UHL is committed to helping colleagues balance the demands of both their work and personal needs through flexible working arrangements wherever reasonably practicable and subject to service needs.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.

The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be deducted from your salary over a three month period commencing on your first month's payment.

The current price of a check is £38 for an enhanced and £18 for a standard check.

COVID 19 Risk Assessment

Due to the current Covid pandemic we have introduced a staff risk assessment into our pre-employment process. This now forms part of the mandatory pre-employment checks that will be carried out if you receive a conditional offer.

The risk assessment is intended to ensure you are able to safely perform your duties in any of our work areas, and if you have been identified as being particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. Our main aim is to reduce risk and to ensure the safety of all new starters to the Trust as well as current staff, patients and visitors.

If it is identified that you are within a vulnerable category, we will endeavor to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate this through discussions with both Occupational Health and your recruiting manager.

Covid Vaccination Status

Covid-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We therefore continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion at the heart of everything it does and all that it stands for. We are committed to developing a workforce that is representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from the diverse community of Leicester, Leicester and Rutland, to help deliver healthcare services that meets the needs of our diverse communities.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

Documents to download

• Job Description (PDF, 624.5KB)
• Understanding your right to work in the UK (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Employee Benefits (PDF, 578.5KB)