Senior Project Manager

**Senior Project Manager**

**Location**: East Sussex, Eastbourne, Conquest, Bexhill and other trust occupied premises

**Parking**:Not Specified

**Proposed start date**: ASAP

**Duration**:No end date given at this stage

**Sector**: Healthcare

**Base**:Healthcare based

**Pay Rates**:
£23.40-£26.40 paye per hour

£26.20-£29.60 paye inclusive of holiday pay

£29.80-£33.70 umbrella per hour

Depending on skill, experience and qualifications

**Band**:8A

**Working Days and Hours**:37.5 hours a week

**Remote working option**: Not available

**Travelling for work purposes**:This is a multi site role, travel to individual sites required

**Summary of Role**
- The Capital Projects Department provides a service to the Trust that ranges from
- Estates strategic planning, refurbishments, new builds, estates projects and minor capital works as well as ongoing planning of future capital developments in line with theTrust clinical and estates strategy.
- The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for managing specific capital projects from inception to completion to cost and time:

- The day to day management of the project (including contractors and whole project budgets) and delivery of the project deliverables within agreed constraints.
- Planning, monitoring and controlling all aspects of a project to ensure that the most cost effective, timely and appropriate solutions are developed to fulfil the Trust’s strategic goals.
- Producing project documentation including financial and progress reporting, specific project documentation, highlight and checkpoint progress reports, quality assurance reports, and risk/issue management logs related to their schemes.
- Producing highly complex design and technical specification information from feasibility to detailed design stages where required.
- Taking the formal role of Contract Administrator for the delivery stage of a project.
- Managing the relationship with external suppliers to define and agree business needs, objectives and system requirements and any interfaces with the operational hospital staff, ensuring the scheme delivers the agreed output specification and commissioners/users’requirements.
- Line management of the Trust’s internal capital project management team (interim and substantive)

**Duties**
- To lead on the internal Capital Projects including charity funded projects taking day to day responsibility for successful delivery of the programme work within time, cost and quality
- Planning, organising, recruiting as appropriate, to deliver the programmes within the Trust’s governance structure and its adopted management and operating policies.
- Ensuring that appropriate project management documentation is developed and maintained as the basis for progression of activities and that people, including a range of external contractors are held to account.
- Developing and refining the governance framework for the project as they evolve with robust reporting systems in place to the relevant Project Board and Executive Management Team.
- Developing and maintaining a comprehensive framework for management and reporting of risks and issues
- Coordinating the project with other Trust projects and general operational activity and ensuring that momentum is maintained
- Ensuring that the project is delivered within the cost, time and quality parameters set by the relevant Board Committees.
- For projects involving award of contracts for design, development, equipment supply and / or provision of FM services, to:

- develop a clear and compliant brief which has been endorsed by stakeholders
- formulate robust documentation for bidding purposes
- operate compliant and efficient procurement processes
- lead and coordinate bid appraisal processes
- lead negotiations with potential partners / providers
- oversee and administer contracts with providers / suppliers
- Developing and refining reporting processes which are able to provide a clear presentation of programme, cost and quality status, along with the status of relevant risks and issues for direction / agreement as appropriate.
- Overseeing that robust arrangements are in place for the on-going service delivery whilst any new development of new or refurbishment is underway so that patients and members of the public are protected throughout the development process and the Trust maintainsits service positioning and improves market share.
- The post holder will have delegated responsibility for the delivery of a number of projects to cover all stages as set out in the Capital Investment Manual.
- They will plan, organise and lead on a broad range of complex activities associated with the development of a capital project from feasibility through to post project evaluation and carefully plan the multi stranded elements of each project and inter-relatedprojects.
- The post holder will be responsible for and lead on meetings with the client representative to discuss the objective of the project and to offer professional advice on the development process for capital projects. The meeting will also discuss the clientexpectations with regard to time scale and likely funding source.
- To provide advice on DOH and internal Trust procurement procedures that must be followed and will include the involvement of departmental design guidance, business case procedural guidance as well as local health economy requirements

**Questions**

Do you have previous experience working as a Senior Project Manager within the NHS?

Do you have experience working as a Senior Project Manager within healthcare?

Do you have experience of highly complex design and technical specification information from feasibility to detailed design stages where required?

Do you have experience in day to day management of the project (including contractors and whole project budgets) and delivery of the project deliverables within agreed constraints?

Do you meet the criteria above and available to start immediately?