Job summary
- Main area
- Planning
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri)
- Job ref
- 421-CORP-1984S
- Employer
- Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Harrogate District Hospital
- Town
- Harrogate
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Strategic Planning Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
The Senior Strategic Planning Manager will lead the delivery of assigned Capital projects through the scoping, planning and delivery stages. This will include writing business cases, chairing project meetings, writing project schedules and briefings, reviewing contract documentation and ensuring the brief is delivered to time, scope and budget.
The post holder will lead the process to commission new facilities ensuring they are ready for operational use whilst maintaining reporting to Trust Boards and management groups. They will act as senior customer throughout capital projects representing clinical and operational users to ensure the agreed scheme objectives are delivered.
The post holder will manage the project budget forecasts, approvals and spend, and post project evaluations alongside HDFT Finance.
The Strategic Planning Manager will contribute to the Environment Strategy for the Trust at both the Harrogate District Hospital site and Community properties, shaping the provision of healthcare services for the future.
Main duties of the job
The post holder should have excellent communication and negotiation skills, as well as effective networking, analytical and facilitation skills. The post holder will also have extensive project management and change management experience and be IT literate.
As the Senior Planning Manager within the team, this post holder will be expected to lead a team of Planning Managers and provide mentoring, support and leadership to drive forwards all projects within the department’s programme of works.
Working for our organisation
Harrogate & District NHS FT is a high performing, ambitious organisation with a strong culture based on our KITE values of Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. Our purpose is to put the patient and child first by improving the health and wellbeing of our patients, children and communities. We are committed to delivering the best quality, safest care by supporting every one of our 5,000 colleagues and making HDFT the best place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. If you have any questions regarding the role, please contact Sarah Kiernan, Assistant Planning Manager via [email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to master's degree level or equivalent experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
- Project, programme, change management or quality improvement qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of delivering large scale, complex projects or programmes at pace and to time, cost and quality
- Experience of managing substantial budgets
- Leadership experience, able to demonstrate the ability to set direction, inspire, coach, manage, motivate and develop a high performing team of experienced and new staff
- Experience of building relationships and working in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders
Desirable criteria
- NHS based experience of the essential criteria
- Experience of working in the NHS
- Experience of using improvement methodologies
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of planning processes
- Knowledge of programme and project management methods
- Knowledge of line management processes (eg HR processes, risk management, health & safety, staff engagement)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of capital funding processes and governance
- Knowledge of the RIBA framework for managing construction projects
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- A strong, inspiring, engaging and collaborative leader. Able to demonstrate a variety of leadership styles, in particular coaching leadership. Able to develop a clear vision and strategy for the team, a plan to deliver it.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to build relationships internally and externally, with clinical and non-clinical colleagues, at all levels from Board to frontline. Excellent influencing and negotiating skills on complex and contentious issues
- Strategic thinker, with strong analytical skills and ability to plan ahead to anticipate and resolve problems.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Able to present complex information clearly and to deliver compelling, persuasive arguments and propositions (eg business cases) to audiences from Board to frontline, and from individuals to large groups.
- Strong delivery focus to ensure tasks are followed through to completion and projects are delivered. Strong team and personal organisational and time management skills to manage competing priorities and deadlines, to act proactively under pressure.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to facilitate workshops and improvement events.
Personal Characteristics
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic and committed to delivering for our patients, children and staff
- Self motivated and pro-active with a “can-do” attitude and track record of delivery
- Strong commitment to the Trust’s KITE (kindness, integrity, teamwork, equality) values and behaviours; demonstrates the values and behaviours in how they deliver the role and in how they lead
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Kiernan
- Job title
- Assistant Planning Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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