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Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
To achieve our vision of being exceptional in the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities, we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone.
Job overview
Working as an integral member of LGT's Estate Redevelopment Team, you will play a critical part in the delivery of a number of capital projects across our hospital and community sites, including the planning and delivery of improvements to our existing Urgent Emergency Care pathways as well as programmes that will increase the Trust's inpatient bed capacity. You will also be involved in the development and delivery of long-term redevelopment and regeneration plans for the Trust's two hospital sites.
Main duties of the job
This role requires a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual with excellent project management and organisational skills to assist and support the works of Trust's Redevelopment Programme Management Office (PMO) by providing comprehensive management of various capital projects that the Trust wishes to deliver.
The post holder will develop and manage the programme workstream and manage the projects with the support of the project officers and administrative support within the PMO. There are three themes in the Estate Redevelopment Programme: one focused on QEH, another on UHL, and also the Community estate.
Key requirements for the role include strong communication, presentational, and project management skills.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As a Senior Project Manager, you will report directly to and work closely with a Redevelopment Project Director. You will be involved in all aspects of a variety of design stage and construction projects with values ranging from £100,000 up to several million pounds, from RIBA Stage 0 through to Stage 7. You will lead internal project teams as well as being responsible for acting as the client to external consultants and contractors. Practical experience of delivering healthcare projects and experience of undertaking stakeholder and/or community engagement on redevelopment and construction-related projects would be an advantage.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential criteria
* Educated to degree/masters level or equivalent
* Qualification/Training in a construction-related subject
Desirable criteria
* Qualification/s and related professional membership such as RICS, CIOB, ARB, RIBA
Experience
Essential criteria
* Proven experience in managing complex construction projects
* Proven experience of developing business cases and securing approval
* Experience of working with a diverse contractor market
* Experience of procurement practices
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Experience leading the development, implementation, and delivery of systematic projects
* Excellent leadership, influencing, and motivational skills
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Ability to work effectively and independently without direct supervision
* Proven ability to communicate complex issues
* Negotiating and persuasive skills
* Excellent presentation skills
Desirable criteria
* Previous experience of working in a healthcare setting
* Previous experience of working on redevelopment or transformation construction projects
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution, we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from a diverse range of candidates. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply, including those who are Black, Asian, or from other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not), or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks to celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.
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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 will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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