Space Planning Project Manager | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum/pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 November 2025 |
| Location: | Brighton, BN2 3EW |
| Company: | Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7522010/150-GM2152-COR |
Summary
We are currently looking for a space planning project manager to join Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust’s Health Planning and Project Management team. This position is critical to ensuring that we meet the continually changing accommodation needs of a large and complex community Trust delivering healthcare across East and West Sussex and Brighton and Hove. This is an exciting time for the Trust as we look to modernise the way we plan and allocate accommodation for our clinical and support teams, implementing smarter working practices and activity-based space planning to enable productivity improvements that will allow us to invest in improving our estate. This is a challenging and rewarding role and no two days will be the same. One day you may be managing an office move, the next you might be re-planning the entire community health infrastructure across a town or neighbourhood. You will be part of a busy, yet supportive team and we will support your continuing professional development as youplay your part in our team’s continuous improvement journey. If you have a background in project management, space planning or architecture and want to play your part in transforming healthcare service delivery in Sussex this role could be for you.
The post holder will provide expertise, leadership and capacity in managing and delivering a portfolio of space requests and space planning/ change projects working alongside designated Senior Responsible Officers and Project Sponsors. As programme and project management experts with experience in facilitating working across corporate and clinical and operational teams, and across sectors they will deliver to time, quality and budget. They will understand how to create and drive ownership and accountability and use information to identify problems, create solutions and monitor delivery across multiple projects, managing project design and delivery issues and risks with energy and passion.
To assist in leading and managing the project delivery team and external consultants (architects, engineers, designers etc) and users as required for the project work in hand.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
The post holder will be responsible for:
• Delivery of delegated projects from initial inception through to completion, including briefing, design, business cases, agreeing standards and ensuring they are met, overseeing commissioning, and acceptance of works. It should be noted that the capital projects delivery team will be responsible for the management of tenders, contracts, and delivery of works.
• Receiving space requests, managing the accommodation request process, identifying need, and developing options to meet need for new and changed space.
• Communicating effectively with a wide range of colleagues, clients, and agencies, through presentations, reports, chairing meetings and provide technical advice as required.
• Producing MS Project Programme and cash flow forecasts for all schemes and reporting any issues to the Head of Space Planning and Project Management.
• Undertake specific feasibility studies, including preparing options appraisals, AutoCAD drawings, budget estimates and producing high level project programmes.
• Assist in the preparation of Business Cases for service schemes and undertake feasibility studies on options as required.
• Develop, review, and implement heath planning procurement procedures and ensure the projects team adhere to the procedures.
• Manage the commissioning of newly delivered projects and support relocation of teams.
This advert closes on Monday 20 Oct 2025