Senior Redevelopment Project Manager

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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.

Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

Working as an integral member of LGT's Estate Redevelopment Team, you will play a critical part in the delivery of a number of capital projects across our hospital and community sites, including the planning and delivery of a programme of improvements to our existing Urgent Emergency Care pathways as well as programmes that will increase the Trust's inpatient bed capacity. You will also be involved on the development and delivery of long-term redevelopment and regeneration plans for the Trust's two hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

This job role requires a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual; with excellent project management and organisational skills to assist and supports the works of Trust's Redevelopment Programme Management Office [PMO] by providing comprehensive management of various capital projects that the Trust wish to deliver.

The post holder will be required to develop and manage the programme workstream and manage the projects with the support of the project officers and administrative support within the PMO. There are three themes in the Estate Redevelopment Programme, one focussed on QEH, another UHL and also the Community estate.

Key requirements for the role include strong communication, presentational and project management skills.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development;
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability;
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability;
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development; and
5. Making equalities mainstream.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working as an integral member of LGT's Estate Redevelopment Team, you will play a critical part in the delivery of a number of capital projects across our hospital and community sites, including the planning and delivery of a programme of improvements to our existing Urgent Emergency Care Department at University Hospital, Lewisham. You will also be involved on the development and delivery of long-term redevelopment and regeneration plans for the Trust's two hospital sites.

As a Senior Project Manager, you will report directly into and working closely with a Redevelopment Project Director. You will be involved in all aspects of a variety of design stage and construction projects with values ranging from £100,000 up to Several Million Pounds, from RIBA Stage 0 through to Stage 7. You will lead internal project teams as well as being responsible for acting as client to external consultants and contractors. You will ideally have practical experience of delivering healthcare projects. Experience of undertaking stakeholder and/or community engagement on redevelopment and construction related projects would be an advantage.

Person specification

Qualifications/ Training

Essential criteria

• Educated to degree/ masters level or equivalent
• Qualification/ Training in construction related subject

Desirable criteria

• Qualification/s and related professional membership such as RICS, CIOB, ARB, RIBA (Desirable)

Experience

Essential criteria

• Proven experience in managing complex construction projects
• Proven experience of developing Business cases, and securing approval
• Experience of working with a diverse contractor market eg. Larger main contractors, local SME's
• Experience of procurement practices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience to lead the development, implementation and delivery of systematic projects.
• Excellent leadership, influencing and motivational skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively and independently without direct supervision
• Proven ability to communicate complex issues
• Negotiating and persuasive skills
• Excellent presentation skills

Desirable criteria

• Previous experience of working in healthcare setting
• Previous experience of working on redevelopment or transformation construction projects

We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

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Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

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• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)