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Engineering Senior Project Manager
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
196-ESS1550-Y
Employer
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
All sites
Town
London
Salary
£70,387 - £80,465 per annum incl HCA (pro rata)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
18/05/2025 23:59
Interview date
29/05/2025

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Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust logo

Engineering Senior Project Manager

NHS AfC: Band 8b

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions. 

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.



Job overview

Are you ready to make an impact in a dynamic, high-performing team dedicated to engineering project management? Do you have a background and experience working as a engineering project management professional?  Do you want to join a team who are passionate about maintaining high standards for our patients, visitors and staff? If so, we would like to hear from you as we are looking for 4 Senior Engineering Project Managers to join our team.

Main duties of the job

The post-holder is responsible for the successful implementation of a portfolio of diverse projects that may including multimillion-pound major engineering related projects. The post holder will act as the GSTT client and deliver first class projects, forming the necessary links between all involved parties. The post holder will ensure effective and efficient 
programme management from inception to completion, meeting or exceeding briefs, budget control and delivery of quality products. The post may involve leading an internal team supported by a multi-disciplinary external team whose primary responsibility is to manage 
the overall process of project delivery ensuring compliance with governance processes, ensuring appropriate arrangements are in place with teams to achieve safety, time, cost and quality parameters.
The postholder:
• Provide a high-quality Project Management of engineering and backlog 
maintenance projects.
• Leads and manages a project delivery team comprising internal and external professionals.
• Delivers projects to time, budget and delivering outcomes as articulated in governance. Being accountable for and managing the project programme delivery processes through all RIBA stages.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

 

We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

The NHS Pension Scheme - one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK. When you start working for the NHS you automatically become a member and you will get an excellent package of pension benefits.

Interest free Season Ticket Loan 
Long Term Service Awards 
Subsidised on-site nurseries and childcare vouchers
A comprehensive staff health and well-being programme, '5 ways to a healthier YOU'
Ride to work scheme
Employee assistance programme
Free stop smoking service

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Qualifications/ Education

Essential criteria
  • A degree level education in a engineering / building fabric discipline or relevant experience.
  • Formal qualification in an engineering/construction/ project management discipline.
  • Post graduate management qualification

Professionals/ Statutory Registration

Desirable criteria
  • Formal qualification in an engineering/construction/ project management discipline.

Previous experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant successful experience in engineering project delivery for procuring and managing engineering and backlog maintenance projects in live, physically congested, high public footfall urban environments
  • Strong knowledge and significant experience of contract management and procurement, cost management, budgeting and supply chain management
  • Relevant experience working in a senior position for a large organisation
  • Business management demonstrating sound commercial awareness
  • A track record of delivering high quality customer service rack record of working on projects of a technically complex nature, ideally in the research / healthcare / science sectors.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Relevant technical knowledge to provide comprehensive leadership to any engineering or backlog projects

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alan Ponder
Job title
Assistant Director, Capital Projects
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07887501528
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