Deputy Technical Director
| Posting date: | 06 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £76,965.00 to £88,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £76965.00 - £88682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 September 2025 |
| Location: | Leicester, LE3 9QP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9358-25-0514 |
Summary
KEY WORKING RELATIONSHIPS The postholder will be expected to develop excellent working relationships with: Colleagues across the Estates & Facilities directorate, Our Future Hospitals and within the Capital Projects team, Cross-directorate leads, such as Finance, Procurement, IM&T, Clinical Management Groups, Infection Prevention and Health & Safety, Trust senior directors/Project Senior Reporting Officers and Project Board Members External validation bodies, such as Gateway/Healthcheck Reviewers, NHS England/NHS Improvement, DHSC, Construction Contractors at various levels from local SMEs to Tier 1 contractors, Professional Advisors such as Architects, Mechanical and Electrical Designers, Cost Managers and Authorising Engineers, Third Party groups such as local Planning Officers and Building Control, Patient Groups such as healthwatch and PPI leads, KEY RESULT AREAS Programme Management 1. Lead the development feasibility studies and co-ordinate/provide input on sections of the Business Case, 2. Ensure the project scopes are clearly defined, agreed and understood, ensure they are managed within the agreed scope and that unavoidable scope creep is escalated, 3. When escalated, engage with Project Teams to problem-solve and help find best-fit solutions; managing conflicting requirements and negotiating successful outcomes, 4. Direct and assist project teams to deliver the project scopes within agreed time, cost and quality parameters, ensure continual monitoring and robust and accurate reporting against these, 5. Ensure that expectations are managed through design and construction, 6. Setting-up and running communication and reporting structures across the site programme, providing leadership and guidance on administering a range of common construction contracts, monitoring health and safety cross-site and ensuring that all correct procedures are followed, 7. Communicate to Programme Boards and other high-level Trust meetings as required through highlight reports, board papers and verbal updates as required; 8. Continually identify, report, mitigate and monitor risks across the site programme throughout the lifecycle of various projects, 9. Identify resources required to deliver various projects, agree how they will be resourced and effectively managed to deliver required outputs; 10. Ensure that the handover process is effectively managed and acceptance gained from internal stakeholders on behalf of the Trust, engage and negotiate with stakeholders where issues are escalated. 11. Ensure collaboration and good communication across the capital projects team to identify impacts and interdependencies within the programme and wider Trust operations, 12. Manage multi million pound budgets throughout the life of the programme and ensuring adherence to applicable governance and reporting arrangements, 13. Ensure that quality is controlled to a high standard throughout construction and that all facilities are technically commissioned in accordance with applicable legislation and guidance; Technical 1. Possess and maintain a good working knowledge of technical guidance and best-practice, 2. Design and implement systems and processes that ensure technical commissioning of projects is effectively undertaken and that adequate time is allowed, that results are robust, satisfactory and stand-up to scrutiny, 3. Ensure that all necessary independent advisors are consulted and that validations are successfully completed. 4. Experience of delivering building projects with experience of modern methods of construction 5. Experience of sustainable buildings principles to include Zero Carbon and BREEAM, 6. Knowledge of modern design methods and systems such as BIM, Revit and AutoCad 7. Good working knowledge of Microsoft systems, specifically to include Microsoft Project and Microsoft 365, 8. Good working knowledge of other document/project management systems eg: 4-Projects, BIW Conject, Project Vault, Sharepoint Online. Relationship Management 1. Ensure that Project Teams communicate and negotiate effectively with key stakeholders including cross-directorate leads, external approvers and professional advisors to: a. Achieve necessary approvals b. Manage expectations c. Report on progress, risks, issues, processes and procedures d. Responding to both positive and negative feedback, demonstrating consideration of comments 2. Negotiate with stakeholders on escalated matters, further escalate risk and issues where necessary. 3. Manage conflicting requirements in order to deliver a functional solution which meets the project objectives. Leadership 1. Manage and support all accountable members of the site programme team 2. Undertake appraisals to include personal development, advice, mentoring and support to subordinate team members including day-to-day administration of staff, sickness and performance management, grievances and disciplinary issues, 3. Share knowledge, market knowledge and lessons learned with colleagues to help others achieve successful outcomes, 4. Ensure that best-practice corporate governance is implemented across the site programme, 5. Raise the status and the profile of the programme within the organisation and share details with colleagues, 6. Establish project teams to ensure the right membership in delivering a breadth of project requirements, 7. Provide judgment on situations or information when this information may differ from experts. 8. Develop and formulate strategic plans and programmes, both medium and long-term (2-5 years) and adjust plans or strategies and resource requirements accordingly across multi-stranded highly complex capital programme. Communicate effectively the impact of these on the organisation. 9. Allocate tasks and monitor delivery against agreed plans, 10. Report on performance and compliance at a programme level, 11. Manage the links and dependencies within and between workstreams, ensuring that risks and dependencies are managed to a successful outcome; 12. Manage key stakeholders within workstreams to produce outputs to time, budget and quality standards, 13. Manage external professionals and suppliers within workstreams to produce outputs to time, budget and quality standards; 14. Facilitate specialist training to project and workstream team on key aspects of project management as required.