Project Manager Strategic Development
Estates & Facilities - Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
Full time - 37.5 hours per week - Monday to Friday
Band 7 - 23.52 per hour

Oxford Health NHS Foundation trust provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. The services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and in people's homes, with a focus on delivering care as close to home as possible. Working with Oxford Health you will strive to be caring, safe and excellent.

Could you be part of that team?

We have a vacancy for a Project Manager to be based at our Littlemore site in Oxford.

Key Responsibilities:

The post holder will be a key member of the estates transformation and strategic development team; with responsibility for ensuring that those strategic development projects allocated to them are designed in accordance with statutory requirements, regulations and guidance; and delivered in accordance with the agreed programme.

Compliance

• Ensure that all schemes are designed, tendered and delivered in accordance with all relevant legislation, building control, planning, and Trust Procedures.
• Responsible for designing schemes in accordance with HBN and HTM guidance as appropriate, and presenting reasoned and supported argument should any aspects of these guidance notes compromise the viability/deliverability of the scheme.
• Submit planning and building control applications and liaising with local planners to secure approvals.
• Comply with the Trust's PTW procedures and Control of Contractors Policy
• Coordinate inductions for all contractors employed to deliver estates operational capital schemes
• Undertake regular documented checks of construction sites and external perimeters to ensure safe working practices are followed.

Risk Management

• Maintain a Project Risk Register and Issues Log for each scheme allocated; relating to the Trusts' Strategic Development schemes.
• Provide monthly updates detailing the progress made to mitigate identified risks/manage issues, any new risks identified, and the notification of risks that cannot be managed successfully by the projects.

Policies and Training

• Attend all mandatory training as required.
• Provide monthly progress reports for each Strategic Development Scheme to the Head of Operational Estates.
• Monitor each project against an agreed set of KPI's (as established by the Business Case)
• Ensure that details relating to amendments to the departments asset lists (ie engineering assets, FF&E), record drawings and building manuals are clearly documented and the data updated, reflecting any changes resulting from works.

Quality

• Oversee a robust communication stream to ensure that affected services are aware of works planned, timescale, and responsible manager.

Procurement

• Develop, implement and maintain suitable approved contractor list, working with procurement leads, in order to ensure that value for money is obtained.

Financial Management

• Financial management of relevant budgets.

A full person specification sheet is available for applicants.

Qualifications & Experience

• Post qualification experience as a project manager with design responsibility within an estates and facilities department
• Degree in building surveying, or related subject; and substantial experience as a project manager delivering operational capital schemes
• Excellent knowledge of IT systems, including specialist design systems (ie CAD)
• Experience of managing operational capital projects and programmes
• Ability to travel between sites and to regional meetings

Who are NHS Professionals?

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don't have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 130,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades, and specialities, saving the NHS over 70 million each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS.

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: -

• Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!
• First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England
• Dedicated consultants
• Flexible working options
• Free DBS and free training
• Support when you need it - 24/7 365 days
• Stakeholder pension scheme

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.