Head of Capital Projects

3 months ago


Reading, United Kingdom NHS Professionals Full time

**Head of Capital Projects**

**Royal Berkshire Hospital - Reading RG1 5AN.**

**Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust**

**Band 8c - £41.50 per hour - 37.5 hpw - Monday to Friday 08.00-16.00**

**Involves travelling between various sites across the Trust.**

Are you a highly experienced in the field of Capital Projects and can demonstrate years of overseeing successful deliverance of high-budget and high-profile projects? Do you have experience in healthcare or similar public sector bodies and are looking to bring your talents to your local NHS services to make a real difference in the services offered on site, as well as directly impacting the longevity of the building that our NHS teams will use for years to come?

**If so, then Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust would love to hear from you.**

**Overview of role**:

- This is an important role within the Estates & Facilities Directorate where the successful applicant will take lead responsibility and overview for delivery of the RBFT Capital Programmes, as directed, on all RBFT major capital projects, ensuring the most cost and resource effective planning, development and financial management of all services/resources provided by the Estates Development Team.
- Provide complex reports to board on financial monitoring/forecasting, programme management and risk management. To take technical and professional lead on identified issues/risks related to the management of Capital Project and to provide accurate up to date advice/reports to the Deputy Director of Estates & Facilities.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Acting as Project Director; reporting to the SRO on all major capital projects. Full professional and managerial accountability for all estates capital construction matters. Taking responsibility for the management and execution of the Trust estates capital programme. Professionally and managerially accountable for all major capital estates construction and engineering projects, ensuring health & safety compliance and appropriate management of risk for all patients, staff and visitors in respect to estates capital project works.
- Developing, planning and monitoring of the major capital elements of the RBFT Capital programme, including medium-to-long term strategic reviews and general lifecycle replacement programmes focusing on GSL Soft Landings.
- Oversee the construction works, minimising disruption to the hospital operations, and ensuring delivery of the redevelopment proposals in terms of programme, cost and overall delivery plan. Oversee the building and clinical commissioning of the facilities in alignment with the phasing and decant programme.
- Full financial management and accountability of all major projects at all stages of the project. Conduct budget concept and full cost feasibilities of business cases for clinical expansion and estates development and improvement. Ensure there is a co-ordinated process in place to take all design drawings to the agreed programme contractual status and manage any change of scope or clinical variations, ensuring that they are essential, and costs are affordable, within budget and achieve value for money.
- Oversee and manage the external appointment of consultants and contractors and supply-chain specialists as required. Enter High-level negotiations with supply-chain contractors, construction consultant teams, local authority officers and other external bodies. Take the lead on all procurement and contract aspects of Capital Investment.
- To hold position over appointed external supply chains, design team consultants and associated contracts as required, e.g., NEC, P22, JCT etc.
- Work with the design team to develop and implement a sustainable development management plan. Work with the Trust estates leads to ensure soft and hard FM services are fully integrated within the design development, commissioning and delivery of capital projects. Oversee the town planning approvals, building regulations and legal process related to capital projects. Provide all necessary design and development inputs to the trusts Business Case process.
- Provide expert specialist and construction project advice to Senior Trust Management stakeholders. Provide and receive high complex information including Trust policy matters, HTM’s/HBN’s and technical information to internal and external stakeholders.
- To participate in the production of the Divisional Business Plans and in the business planning process for the Estates Department, ensuring active involvement of all professional staff planning and service development. To develop and produce performance targets/KPI’s and co-ordinate the monitoring of these through an agreed set of performance indicators to track spend and scheme delivery.

**Skill Requirements**:

- Project Director/Senior Project Manager experience of similar sized capital programmes from early stages through to the delivery of commissioned facilities to enable the delivery of world leading healthcare



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