Job summary
- Main area
- Construction
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Hybrid working - 3 days on-site with potential for flexibility based on project stage)
- Job ref
- 176-C-6526204-A
- Employer
- North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Huntingdon
- Town
- Huntingdon
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/04/2025
Employer heading
Design and Construction Workstream Lead
Band 8c
Job overview
Lead the Future of Healthcare Design & Construction
Delivering Excellence at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced design and construction professional looking for a career-defining opportunity? North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust (NWAFT) is seeking a dynamic Design and Construction Workstream Lead (Main Build) to drive the redevelopment of Hinchingbrooke Hospital - a transformational project at the heart of the New Hospital Programme.
Why Join Us?
- Hybrid Working: 3 days on-site with potential for flexibility based on project stage.
- Scale & Impact: Oversee the design and construction aspects of the £500m - £1bn redevelopment of Hinchingbrooke Hospital, shaping a state-of-the-art, sustainable healthcare facility.
- End-to-End Leadership: From design conception to construction delivery, ensuring alignment with NHS sustainability and Net Zero goals.
- Career Growth: A rare opportunity to lead a once-in-a-generation project, working with high-profile stakeholders in healthcare design, architecture, and construction.
What We’re Looking For
- Strong design background - you’ll ensure architectural excellence, user-focused solutions and alignment with NHS Hospital 2.0 standards.
- Proven experience in delivering large-scale construction programmes, ideally in the healthcare sector.
- Strategic and commercial leadership, with expertise in procurement, governance and risk management.
- Ability to engage, influence and collaborate with internal teams, contractors, and external agencies.
Main duties of the job
- Lead the design and construction elements of the Hinchingbrooke Hospital Redevelopment Programme (HHRP).
- Drive procurement strategies, ensuring best value for money.
- Oversee the integration of cutting-edge digital and sustainable design.
- Build and manage project teams, ensuring alignment with NHS and government regulations.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in our workforce and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, with a special focus on welcoming individuals from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, as well as those from our local area.Ìý In line with our dedication to employee support, we offer a variety of benefits. For more information, please see the attached staff benefits leaflet.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is more than just a job—it’s an opportunity to shape the future of healthcare infrastructure. Join us in delivering a hospital that will serve generations to come.
Please refer to the job description for full information or get in touch:Ìý[email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional knowledge acquired through degree, leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience
- PRINCE 2 Practitioner Level
- HM Treasury Better Business case training
Desirable criteria
- Construction qualification
- Membership of relevant professional body or chartered status.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience within the Healthcare sector at senior manager level including responsibility for strategic projects and programmes of change
- Experience of leading and managing programmes, with considerable experience managing large capital schemes in the healthcare sector
- Experience of business case development for large or complex capital projects and of the work streams including Clinical Strategy, Workforce, IT and Estates
Desirable criteria
- Considerable project management experience of large capital schemes in the healthcare sector
- General working knowledge of NHS business case process and approvals.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Insight Executives
- Job title
- Insight Executives
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Talk To Our Team
This campaign is being exclusively managed by Insight Executive Group. To speak with either of our project leads, Robert Parker or James Herron at Insight Executive Group by emailing our dedicated campaign emailÌý[email protected] Ìý
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