Job Description
Job Title
Director of Capital Projects
Band Area
9
Essentia Responsible to Executive Director, Development & Compliance Accountable to Executive Director, Development & Compliance
Job Summary This is a role which will be key to the Trust’s role as leader and influencer in South East London and to achieving Essentia’s strategic ambitions. The role is a crucial post to play a leading role in the delivery of a world class Estate. The role will report to the Executive Director, Development & Compliance and be responsible for leading and the successful delivery of a number of programmes that comprise of complex capital and small works projects including refurbishment, compliance and backlog infrastructure projects across the GSTT estate. The projects in the programmes will range in scale, complexity and value and must be delivered to specification, cost and time. Our estate is highly congested and busy operational hospital environments where quality of clinical experience throughout the works is absolutely critical. The postholder: • Directs and managing the delivery of all projects within the plan between strategy and delivery team/s. • Direct appointing, managing and directing internal and external project teams and consultants (where appropriate); • Develops strategy and practice for the efficient and effective procurement and subsequent management of design team consultancy services and main contractors; • Works collaboratively with the central PMO team to ensure that the established and implemented project controls support consistent and effective means of monitoring and reporting performance, across services supporting the delivery of GSTT’s capital projects programme;
staff and visitors. • Manage processes for establishing realistic project budget estimates, cost plans, cash-flows and regular forecasting across capital projects. • Work with Director, Strategy, Property & Asset Management to the development of strategy for efficient and effective delivery of capital programmes/projects, including consultant and contractor procurement, forms of engagement, management of risk, contingencies, best value and cost planning. • Ensure appropriate performance management of external contractors, consultants and other service providers engaged to deliver capital programme projects. • • Ensure proactive and excellent communications about projects and programmes to the wider GSTT teams, with all stakeholders and liaising with the Essentia Communications Team. • • Lead and manage professional teams, both in house and outsourced, promoting a customer focused, constructively challenging, responsive and adaptable service. Performance Management • Work within a performance management framework, ensuring that clear performance measures are in place across the team, and manage a process of continuous improvement in relation to service delivery, identifying innovative approaches and best practice. • Analyse performance across the Trust’s entire asset base in relation to performance targets and strategic objectives, developing strategies and business plans, providing advice in areas
• Leads key stakeholder engagement and integrating service delivery to ensure excellent. • Delivers exceptional customer service, meeting agreed targets and objectives; • Drives a zero-tolerance safety culture across the team and with all suppliers to secure delivery of a safe, healthy and secure environment for students, staff and visitors. Key Relationships • Essentia colleagues • Trust executives, clinical directors and leadership teams • Senior stakeholders including clients, external partners and suppliers • Trust non-executives • Commercial Partners including landlords and tenants • ICS partner organisation • Senior Stakeholders in London Borough of Lambeth, Southwark, Kensington & Chelsea and Hillingdon.
management, corporate governance and audit controls are in place. • Ensure the Institutional imperative to maintain a high-quality environment and the high Institutional priority of improving the patient and staff experience throughout the programme/ project period are met, adopting appropriate risk mitigation strategies and making transparent the likely trade-offs required; • Ensure full and transparent reporting, inter alia, to meet the requirements of governance / committee procedures, standing financial instructions (SFIs) for consistent project/ programme reporting. • Work closely with the Strategy, Property & Asset Management team to deliver Estates solutions to support the Estates Strategy and effective management of space. • Establish and maintain close working relationships and effective stakeholder management with external partners and internal clinical groups and Departments to ensure that Estates projects are consistent with, local plans and operational requirements. • Ensure a consistent approach to capital project delivery, including support the Head of Commercial with the management of framework consultants and contractors and reporting of supplier performance. • Review and develop the systems and processes to deliver the programme of capital projects in support of achieving business needs. • Drive a zero-tolerance safety culture across the team and with all suppliers to secure delivery of a safe, healthy and secure environment for patients,
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Capital Projects • Lead, manage and coordinate the delivery of major projects or a programme of projects from inception, design, construction, mobilisation and post project reviews to agreed specifications, achieving time, cost, quality parameters and full compliance with health, safety, statutory and environmental obligations and best practice. • Ensure all projects represent best value for money and that appropriate and effective risk
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