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Job summary

Main area
Capital Projects
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
412-CAP-0044
Employer
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust - Leighton Hospital
Town
Crewe
Salary
拢53,755 - 拢60,504 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/03/2025 23:59
Interview date
24/03/2025

Employer heading

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Senior Capital Project Manager (MEP)

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

SENIOR CAPITAL PROJECTS MANAGER - (MEP)

Are you an experienced capital project manager looking for an exciting and challenging new role?听 At Leighton Hospital, we are working on building a modern healthcare campus - a once in a generation opportunity to transform health care in mid Cheshire for the future.听 The new 拢multimillion hospital will be a state of the art digitally enabled building providing the best care possible in a modern patient friendly environment.听

We are seeking a Senior Capital Project Manager to join our Team, to deliver this complex and fast-paced project. For full details of this fantastic opportunity please refer to the job description and person spec.

The friendly and collaborative Healthier Futures Programme Management team are based in their own offices on site at Leighton Hospital, Crewe. The Trust supports flexible working and is located in a great area 鈥 in a beautiful countryside setting with excellent rail and road links to Chester, Manchester and Liverpool.

This role provides an amazing opportunity to be involved in a major civil engineering project which aims to transform the welfare of the people of Cheshire well into the future. 听

Applications are welcome from both public and private sectors.

Main duties of the job

听听听听听听 To deputise for the Building Lead or MEP Lead as the situation requires. To support the HF Construction Director, Building Lead and MEP Lead in the effective and efficient management of the total resources of the HF team. To provide support in leadership responsibility for the New Hospital Programme Construction Team ensuring the most effective planning, development and management of all services provided.

听听听听听听 To assist the HF Construction Team on this major project and associated enabling or supporting projects, taking lead responsibility for defined workstreams or packages as directed.

听听听听听听 To comment upon building and engineering designs in accordance with NHS Health Technical Memorandum (HTMs) and Health Building Notes (HBNs), British Standards and all current legislation.

听听听听听听 To take technical lead for defined workstreams or packages related to the management of the HF Programme works and providing accurate up-to-date advice as required.

听听听听听听 To provide a safe environment for patients, staff and visitors.

听听听听听听 To develop and maintain close and effective working relationships with the internal and external stakeholders to achieve an effective and integrated design and construction solution.

听听听听听听 To commission and project manage defined workstreams or packages, act as lead and manage staff/consultants as required.

听听听听听听 Budgetary responsibility within approved scheme limits.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital and community services for people across East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester boroughs (population 357K).

The Trust provides high quality planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care as well as child health, maternity services, and intermediate care across our sites at Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.

The Trust provides 500 beds and employs over 5,100 members of staff.听

An extensive range of community services is provided across 26 medical centres and schools by our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance.

We have played, and continue to play, a proactive role in the development of Integrated Care plans across Cheshire & Merseyside and our local Cheshire East and Cheshire West Place-based systems. We believe, and it is the cornerstone of our five-year Trust Strategy, there is the opportunity to progress innovative, responsive and effective care in the best setting for the patient, be it in the hospital or out in the community.

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To manage and fulfil the full range of duties in the implementation of building and engineering works as part of the Trust鈥檚 New Hospital Programme.听

Please refer to the job description and person specification.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Degree or equivalent experience in general or project/programme management roles
  • Evidence of continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Master鈥檚 qualification or post graduate study in a relevant subject
  • Formal project management or change management qualification
  • Other formal qualifications relating to leadership, programme or project management.
  • Membership of an appropriate professional body (RICS, IStructE, ICE, IEE, IMechE, RIBA, etc)

Knowledge & Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Previous knowledge and or experience of managing large complex construction projects and/or programmes
  • Experience of managing project budgets
  • Knowledge of RIBA Stages of work, NHS Health Technical Memorandum (HTMs) and Health Building Notes (HBNs), British Standards
  • Experience of leading teams of professional (NHS and contract/external) staff within a performance/contract management culture
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of NHS business case processes including HM Treasury 5 case model and HM Treasury The Green Book- Central Government Guidance on Appraisal and Evaluation
  • Experience in preparing business cases.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to analyse and balance complex service, commercial and political decisions and draw appropriate conclusions
  • Ability to influence and create change where significant barriers to acceptance exist
  • Ability to plan and organise resources to ensure strategic objectives and deadlines are met
  • The post holder will be expected to work autonomously and have the ability to navigate complex processes within tight timeframes
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of effective working relationships both inside and outside the organisation.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardVeteran AwareNHS Rainbow badgePrince's Trust - Proud to support the Prince's trust - Youth can do itNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality Mark

Documents to download

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Marshall
Job title
Project Coordinator
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01270 904404

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Recruitment Team
Leighton Hospital
Middlewich Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 4QJ
Telephone
01270 904488