Redevelopment Programme Director - Sustainability & Infrastructure

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.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be 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.

To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here

Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.

Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.

LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.

We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.

Job overview

This job role requires a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual; with excellent programme management and organisational skills to assist and supports the works of Trust's Redevelopment & Capital Project Programme Management Office [PMO] by providing comprehensive management of key sustainability and infrastructure projects.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to 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 key projects within the programme and main objective of the role is to manage the program to ensure successful implementation of the Trust Strategy. This includes:
• Lead and develop the Redevelopment Programme Plan to:
o Deliver the sustainability objectives of the estate blueprints including;
• delivery of the Public Sector Decarbonisation Funding project
• high voltage/ low voltage ring upgrade at UHL project
• and PV installation project.
• Working autonomously to manage the Steering Groups and Programme Boards.
• Ensuring managers requested to attend the Programme Board meetings are prepared and supported.
• Ensuring actions resulting from the Programme Board and Steering Groups are tracked and implemented.
• Develop business cases to deliver the projects including commercial expertise to develop the right delivery solutions for construction
• Strategically leading on the phased approach to infrastructure upgrades at the UHL site and implementing sustainable methodology to construction projects and management
• Post holder is advisor to the Board and will therefore work autonomously.

Key requirements for the role include strong communication, presentational and programme management skills.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Work force
• This post is responsible for line management of the Programme Team Office.
• Line manage and performance appraisal in adherence to the Trust Appraisal process

Financial
• Responsible for capital planning and expenditure in the programme (potential programme value exceeding £50m)
• Contractual management of Trust external advisors
• Lead key procurement activities, providing advice to the Programme Board on VFM

Partnerships
• Support relationship development with Local Authority and other statutory and voluntary organisations
• Manage relationship with external funders (Salix and NHSE)

Communications and Relationships
• (Effectively and proactively lead a personal portfolio of concurrent, complex design and planning development projects
• Use a high level of concentration and apply expertise to analyse large volumes of complex and conflicting data. This includes ensuring appropriate capture of data through surveys and audit, presenting information obtained to a wide range of audiences in a way that they would understand and be able to take action.
• Support the work stream leads to achieve project objectives within agreed and specific timescales, liaising with staff of all levels and professions to achieve this.
• Utilise IT programmes to organise and interrogate data to produce evaluation and monitoring reports on projects and programmes.
• Appraise the quality of information, undertake audits where required and make judgements regarding the action taken in light of the information, which may be limited.
• Ensure detailed design of new service models including design of new policies, processes, roles, relationships, protocols etc.
• Employ excellent change management, facilitation and negotiation skills to encourage full participation of project team members
• Influence the roles of individuals in change management, service improvement and service delivery.
• Provide drive and challenge to achieve change objectives as rapidly as possible.
• Act as an ambassador for the Trust both internally and externally
• Develop and deploy communication strategies appropriate to the level and complexity of change within projects
• Employ expert negotiation and diplomacy skills with all key working relationships in order to communicate highly complex and frequently sensitive or contentious information necessary to achieve the programme goals

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in senior management
• Proven experience of developing Business cases, and securing approval
• Experience in developing and delivering strategic and service change at scale
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience to lead 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 healthcare setting
• Previous experience of working on redevelopment or transformation programmes
• Previous experience of delivering sustainability projects

Qualifications/ Training

Essential criteria

• Educated to masters degree level or equivalent
• Built environment related professional qualifications (engineering, design, planning, construction management)
• LEAN training or equivalent range of SI methodology skills / training
• Project management qualification Prince 2 or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

• Engineering qualification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

• Understanding of the NHS Plan and National, local and strategic agenda
• Ability to thrive in a highly complex and changing environment while maintaining purpose and direction
• Inspirational leader who demonstrates the ability to lead and manage change
• Committed to the continuous development of staff and self and able to demonstrate the learning that has occurred
• Commitment to developing culture of openness and partnership
• Commitment to improving quality of patient care
• Evidence of self-awareness
• Evidence of integrity, objectivity and fairness
• Comfortable with ambiguity Energy, resilience, flexibility

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 the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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 as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Documents to download

• JD (PDF, 346.6KB)
• Working at LGT (PDF, 4.2MB)
• Visa and Certificate of Sponsorship Information for Applicants (PDF, 3.8MB)
• Candidates Guidance on Applying (PDF, 175.2KB)
• Candidate Guidance on the use of AI (PDF, 3.8MB)