Senior Project Manager

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a skilled project manager to oversee complex capital projects across multiple campuses. You will provide high-quality management from project inception through to commissioning, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget. Your role will include preparing service user briefs, providing expert advice on feasibility studies, and managing project teams. This position offers the opportunity to contribute to a diverse workforce committed to delivering excellent patient care across the South West of England.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing complex capital projects within healthcare.
• Ability to prepare service user briefs and compliance with healthcare specific standards.
• Leadership experience in managing teams and contractors.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality project management for capital projects from inception to handover.
• Assess service user requirements and compile project initiation documents.
• Lead on producing feasibility reports and business case reports.

Job description

You will provide high quality project management for complex capital projects over a wide range of values from inception to commissioning and handover to the Maintenance Manager and /or the clinical service manager – and significantly contribute to the management of the Trust's multi-campus, multi-building estate and property portfolio.

You will work to design, specify and cost to an approved brief and to deliver a completed signed off scheme to agreed programmes on time, within budget, and to specification.

Main Duties Of The Role Will Include

• Assess and prepare service user briefs, identifying the service requirements, objectives to be achieved and Healthcare specific standards (HTMs and HBNs) to be met. Compile and obtain approval to a Project Initiation Document/brief.
• Responsible for new works and delegated capital schemes. Involving both direct labour trade staff and contractors.
• Assess feasibility of potential projects both spatially (space planning in accordance with legislative and best practice guidance), forming budget estimates for clients within an agreed timeframe (Estates Service Level Agreement) and utilising the skills of in-house Building and Engineering Estates Officers and other external professionals, as and when required.
• Lead on and provide professional expert advice on approach to producing feasibility reports and business case reports for consideration by the users, Divisional Managers, and the Trust’s Executive groups.
• To deputise for the General Manager of Projects as and when required inclusive of undertaking line management duties. To line manage the Project Managers/ Assistant Project Managers and supporting Administrators on a day-to-day basis.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.

As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lara Summers Job title: Recruitment and Retention Manager Email address: [e-mail]