Job summary
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
o 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.
About us
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. .
Job description
Job 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.
Job description
Job 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
- oEducated to master level in relevant area or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience in specialist area
- oEvidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- oRelevant first degree
- oRelevant postgraduate qualification
- oRecognised management qualification at postgraduate level and/or experience
- oCompletion of project management skills course, e.g. PRINCE2
Experience
Essential
- oSenior healthcare planning experience in acute hospitals.
- oNHS Senior clinical or management level experience
- oExperience of leading complex healthcare planning projects
- oDelivery of multi £million healthcare capital projects in live clinical environments
- ounderstanding and implementation of best practice in major projects and programmes
Desirable
- oExperience of liaising and working with external design teams and/or government departments
- oExperience of using ProCure22 (P22) framework for the development and delivery of NHS Capital schemes.
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- oAbility to respond to a changing environment, be flexible and have high ambiguity tolerance
- oAnalytical skills, drawing out key points and analysing complex data
- oAbility to conceptualize the end vision while attending to the detail.
- oAble to convey complex material/messages simply.
- oAble to prepare and present reports on complex issues to a range of audiences
Desirable
- Confident with a positive approach to work
Person Specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential
- oEducated to master level in relevant area or equivalent level of qualification or significant equivalent previous proven experience in specialist area
- oEvidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- oRelevant first degree
- oRelevant postgraduate qualification
- oRecognised management qualification at postgraduate level and/or experience
- oCompletion of project management skills course, e.g. PRINCE2
Experience
Essential
- oSenior healthcare planning experience in acute hospitals.
- oNHS Senior clinical or management level experience
- oExperience of leading complex healthcare planning projects
- oDelivery of multi £million healthcare capital projects in live clinical environments
- ounderstanding and implementation of best practice in major projects and programmes
Desirable
- oExperience of liaising and working with external design teams and/or government departments
- oExperience of using ProCure22 (P22) framework for the development and delivery of NHS Capital schemes.
Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
Essential
- oAbility to respond to a changing environment, be flexible and have high ambiguity tolerance
- oAnalytical skills, drawing out key points and analysing complex data
- oAbility to conceptualize the end vision while attending to the detail.
- oAble to convey complex material/messages simply.
- oAble to prepare and present reports on complex issues to a range of audiences
Desirable
- Confident with a positive approach to work
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
