Job summary
North Bristol NHS Trust is seeking to recruit an experienced client facing Senior Project Manager (construction) to work within its Capital Project Team. The successful applicant will take a leading role in the delivery of NBT's annual capital works plan. The position provides exposure to a diverse range of projects within a healthcare setting, including new build and refurbishment projects ranging from £100K - £10M+ in value. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate a track record of client-side delivery, covering all RIBA stages on major schemes. The Estates Department has an exciting and ambitious Estates Strategy and this senior role is pivotal to its successful delivery.
The Successful Estates Senior Project Manager will be part of a busy team delivering a variety of projects within the built environment. Reporting to the Head of Capital Projects you will take responsibility for ensuring your allocated projects are delivered safely on time/cost/quality. You will be required to liaise with Clinical Staff and Managers across the trust building strong relationships and managing stakeholder expectations.
Contract and Contractor management skills are essential to ensure that whilst undertaking works in a live hospital environment that we mitigate and control work activities so that they have as little impact on service delivery as possible.
Main duties of the job
Please read the attached Personal Specifications document before applying for this post
Work Pattern: Monday - Friday
The remit of the postholder includes but is not limited to the following duties:
System Design and Governance
- Systematise all aspects of departmental activities where appropriate.
- Formulate policy in relation to team functions including establishing consistent policies and protocols for delivering best practice.
Business Planning, Financial Management and Strategic Development
- Support and input into the development of corporate capital policies that inform the process for procuring large scale work programmes
- Responsible for financial management of capital budgets ranging from £10k to £5m generally and potentially up to £15m for complex large scale programmes
Programme and Project Management
- Identify accurate and reliable evidence relevant to the project from the large amount of complex information available from relevant.
- Work with members of the project team to investigate the causes of any variance from target/plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions
About us
This advert may close early if we have received a sufficient amount of applications, you are advised to apply as soon as possible.
North Bristol NHS Trustis an ambitious teaching and research organisation, and a specialist regional centre for Major Trauma, Neurosciences, Plastics and Burns, Orthopaedics and Renal services.
The Trust has a turnover of over £600m and over 8,000 staff which are predominately based in our state-of-the-art building on the Southmead Hospital site. The Trust is proud that our clinical teams have built a strong reputation for exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Financial and Physical Resources
- Support the management of contracts, specifications for tenders and awarding of new contracts.
- Ensure that project plans are underpinned by detailed and robust financial plans through budget planning and negotiation of appropriate budgets.
Leadership, Communication and Personal Development
- Deputise for the Head of Capital Projects as required.
- Effectively line-manage Project Managers in the team covering diverse functions to support their wellbeing and create a high performing team who deliver against their objectives.
- Directly manage external professional advisors and project managers where assigned to the project or programme.
Research and Development
- Draw from experience and expertise in other fields and industries to ensure that the Trust benefits from relevant innovations and takes account of best practice in its developments.
- Highlight, promote and report innovative approaches to solving issues and to deliver projects most effectively and efficiently.
Key Working Relationships
- Work and engage constructively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of complex issues.
- Be expected to understand the enabler requirements for the programme, this would include consideration of IT as well as others such as workforce issues.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Financial and Physical Resources
- Support the management of contracts, specifications for tenders and awarding of new contracts.
- Ensure that project plans are underpinned by detailed and robust financial plans through budget planning and negotiation of appropriate budgets.
Leadership, Communication and Personal Development
- Deputise for the Head of Capital Projects as required.
- Effectively line-manage Project Managers in the team covering diverse functions to support their wellbeing and create a high performing team who deliver against their objectives.
- Directly manage external professional advisors and project managers where assigned to the project or programme.
Research and Development
- Draw from experience and expertise in other fields and industries to ensure that the Trust benefits from relevant innovations and takes account of best practice in its developments.
- Highlight, promote and report innovative approaches to solving issues and to deliver projects most effectively and efficiently.
Key Working Relationships
- Work and engage constructively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on a range of complex issues.
- Be expected to understand the enabler requirements for the programme, this would include consideration of IT as well as others such as workforce issues.
Person Specification
Education/Training/Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified engineering or construction professional (RICS/CIOB/RIBA/CIBSE or similar)
Desirable
- Project and Programme management qualifications or equivalent training/experience to post graduate level. Use of recognised project management tools. PRINCE 2 Practitioner, Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner (MSP)
Work Experience
Essential
- Evidenced experience of developing and implementing programme and project management systems and processes through effective system redesign and change management. This includes procurement and project delivery systems.
- Experienced in the selection, appointment and subsequent management of numerous consultants on Capital Projects.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Strong skills in budget management. While the post does not require a financial qualification, the postholder must be confident and experienced in understanding and using financial information
- A significant and successful track record in highly complex project management and change management on large complex projects
Person Specification
Education/Training/Qualifications
Essential
- Qualified engineering or construction professional (RICS/CIOB/RIBA/CIBSE or similar)
Desirable
- Project and Programme management qualifications or equivalent training/experience to post graduate level. Use of recognised project management tools. PRINCE 2 Practitioner, Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner (MSP)
Work Experience
Essential
- Evidenced experience of developing and implementing programme and project management systems and processes through effective system redesign and change management. This includes procurement and project delivery systems.
- Experienced in the selection, appointment and subsequent management of numerous consultants on Capital Projects.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
Essential
- Strong skills in budget management. While the post does not require a financial qualification, the postholder must be confident and experienced in understanding and using financial information
- A significant and successful track record in highly complex project management and change management on large complex projects
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).
