Job vacancy: Digital Smart Building Architect - New Hospital Programme, NHS England, National

Job summary

Main area: Digital
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 8d
Contract: 9 months (Secondment only for current NHS employees)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 990-NHP-6824044-E

Employer: NHS England
Employer type: NHS
Site: Any NHSE office
Town: National
Salary: £88,168 - £101,677 per annum (Exclusive of London Weighting)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59

Digital Smart Building Architect - New Hospital Programme

NHS AfC: Band 8d

Our Organisation

The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.

As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.

As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details on this role's main responsibilities, please see attached job description.

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Secondments:

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Masters level or equivalent level or equivalent experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
• Experience of project and programme management techniques and tools such as Prince 2 or Managing Successful Projects

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive experience and knowledge of digital smart buildings, smart asset management, BIM, IoT, sensors, facilities management technology, data analytics, and strategic real estate planning.
• Extensive knowledge of the NHS estates ecosystem and supply chain, including challenges relating to interoperability, data ownership and data quality.
• Experience working on large complex digital agendas within large infrastructure programmes
• Significant experience at senior level in the NHS or other public healthcare related industry
• Strong understanding of organisational, business, and technical change management including gap analysis and roadmap development

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

Essential criteria

• Technical Expertise - Extensive knowledge of smart buildings, BIM, IoT, digital twins, sensors, data interoperability, etc.
• Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required
• Strong external communications skills in a politically sensitive environment with knowledge of and experience in handling media relations
• Able to foster collaboration across teams, organisations, and sectors through shared goals and cocreation. Skilled at driving partnerships with trusts, communities, and stakeholders to embed participation in initiatives.
• Demonstrable leadership, vision, strategic thinking and planning with highly developed political skills

Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

• Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public
• Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do
• Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others
• Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness
• Demonstrates honesty and integrity and promotes organisational values

Our commitments to you

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes. We strive to ensure our people feel trusted, valued and empowered. We’re passionate about nurturing and developing people. When you join us, we want you to grow and excel, and we offer many opportunities for you to do that. We welcome your talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro-divergent.

We welcome applications from disabled candidates. If you meet all the essential criteria, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK under the Skilled Worker route are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

If applying for this role on a secondment basis, please make sure you have obtained prior agreement from your current line manager to apply for this position.

Please note that we currently do not accept applications via recruitment agencies.

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