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Job summary

Main area
Project Management
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 24 months (B7 subject to JE)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
335-A-1993
Employer
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Horizon Place/hybrid
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 pa
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
03/05/2026 23:59

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East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust logo

Estates Capital Project Manager

NHS AfC: Band 7

We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.

The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).


 

Job overview

Please Note: The band 7 job role is still subject to Job Evaluation.

The role is to assist with the delivery of capital Estates and Sustainability projects across the five counties of the EMAS estate. 

 

Main duties of the job

To provide professional project manager advice and skills to manage the scoping and delivery of the Estates and Sustainability teams’ capital works programme, reporting to the Assistant Director of Estates.

This is a key position in the EMAS Estates Team supporting the Assistant Director of Estates to deliver strategic capital ‘built environment’ projects, working on a variety of schemes that enable the Trust to deliver a future proof and fit for purpose estate.

The role is responsible for leading and delivering projects as the ‘Project Manager’ and ‘Contract Administrator’, leading design teams as the client’s representative, managing stakeholders’ interest and expectations, cost management through to completion.

This is a varied role with considerable stakeholder engagement at all levels and the liaison and management of both internal and external teams, contractors and organisations. The Estates Capital Project Manager will be a specialist ‘subject matter expert’ providing advice and leadership ensuring that projects are kept on programme, meet the stakeholder requirements, are on budget, in line with the trust Estate strategy, Green Plan and other specific schemes identified in a fast moving and evolving built environment.

Working for our organisation

Working for us not only provides job satisfaction of knowing that what you do makes a real difference to our patients, but we offer a range of other great benefits too:

  • Flexible approach to working patterns, we understand the importance of a work life balance and have a wide selection of rotas for part-time and full-time staff
  • Holiday entitlement of 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus public bank holiday entitlement (pro rata for part time).
  • Pay enhancements for out of hours, shift and overtime working, career and salary progression and annual personal development review.
  • Uniform will be provided where this is a requirement of the role
  • Expert training and support from our dedicated in-house education team.
  • Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme.
  • Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme
  • Supporting wellbeing networks
  • NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.
  • Salary Sacrifice Schemes and cycle to work.
  • An exceptional place to work to provide with high-quality emergency care to save lives and make a difference to people
  • A first-class employer, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion of our employees. We are a Rainbow Accredited organisation, and a Veteran Aware and Disability Confident employer.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Plan, manage and monitor the delivery of the Estates and Sustainability capital funded projects. Project values can be in the region of £5M yearly, however this value may be exceeded during busy periods.

Work closely with colleagues and key stakeholders including project and programme board members to ensure that capital projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Using PRINCE2/AGILE project management skills, methodology and checkpoints to deliver capital funded ‘built environment’ projects across all areas of the Trust. Projects will be a mixture of building related, engineering and sustainability schemes.Develop and maintain project documentation. This will include Project Implementation Documents (PIDS), plans and programmes, specifications and drawings, risk registers and CDM (2015) compliance information, change management and waypoints/gateways monitoring to completion.

Work with procurement specialists to identify and deliver suitable routes to market to procure works.Provide reporting at key stages of projects to Estates, Sustainability, programme boards and committees as directed and/or as required by specific funding streams.

For each project working with stakeholders, identify, generate and maintain a suitable risk register, ensuring that it is reviewed regularly, shared with stakeholders and mitigations are actioned in a timely manner.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria
  • Degree educated with post graduate knowledge and experience.
  • Experience of successfully managing complex projects
  • Working knowledge contracts and statutory standards, including the Construction, Design and Management Regulations (CDM2015), HTM’s, British Standards and Codes of Practice.
  • Experience of statutory compliance and how it fits within capital projects
  • Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to develop strategies
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of working in an Estates and sustainability environment
  • Experience or working in an ambulance or similar environment

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Veteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDyslexia Award Logo

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Andy Start
Job title
Assistant Director, Estates
Email address
[email protected]
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