Estates Capital Project Manager
We are East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), an organisation focused on delivering a high standard of emergency and urgent care to our patients across the region.
The East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EMAS) provides Emergency, Urgent and Non-Emergency pre-hospital care and transport across six counties (Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire & Rutland and Northamptonshire).
Job overview
Please Note: The band 7 job role is still subject to Job Evaluation.
The role is to assist with the delivery of capital Estates and Sustainability projects across the five counties of the EMAS estate.
Main duties of the job
To provide professional project manager advice and skills to manage the scoping and delivery of the Estates and Sustainability teams’ capital works programme, reporting to the Assistant Director of Estates.
This is a key position in the EMAS Estates Team supporting the Assistant Director of Estates to deliver strategic capital ‘built environment’ projects, working on a variety of schemes that enable the Trust to deliver a future proof and fit for purpose estate.
The role is responsible for leading and delivering projects as the ‘Project Manager’ and ‘Contract Administrator’, leading design teams as the client’s representative, managing stakeholders’ interest and expectations, cost management through to completion.
This is a varied role with considerable stakeholder engagement at all levels and the liaison and management of both internal and external teams, contractors and organisations. The Estates Capital Project Manager will be a specialist ‘subject matter expert’ providing advice and leadership ensuring that projects are kept on programme, meet the stakeholder requirements, are on budget, in line with the trust Estate strategy, Green Plan and other specific schemes identified in a fast moving and evolving built environment.
Working for our organisation
Working for us not only provides job satisfaction of knowing that what you do makes a real difference to our patients, but we offer a range of other great benefits too:
- Flexible approach to working patterns, we understand the importance of a work life balance and have a wide selection of rotas for part-time and full-time staff
- Holiday entitlement of 27 days rising to 29 days after 5 years and 33 days after 10 years, plus public bank holiday entitlement (pro rata for part time).
- Pay enhancements for out of hours, shift and overtime working, career and salary progression and annual personal development review.
- Uniform will be provided where this is a requirement of the role
- Expert training and support from our dedicated in-house education team.
- Membership of the NHS Pension Scheme.
- Occupational Health support along with an Employee Assistance Programme
- Supporting wellbeing networks
- NHS Discounts in over 200+ stores including Holidays, Days out, Car insurance, Restaurants and Clothing.
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes and cycle to work.
- An exceptional place to work to provide with high-quality emergency care to save lives and make a difference to people
- A first-class employer, promoting equality, diversity and inclusion of our employees. We are a Rainbow Accredited organisation, and a Veteran Aware and Disability Confident employer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Plan, manage and monitor the delivery of the Estates and Sustainability capital funded projects. Project values can be in the region of £5M yearly, however this value may be exceeded during busy periods.
Work closely with colleagues and key stakeholders including project and programme board members to ensure that capital projects are delivered on time and on budget.
Using PRINCE2/AGILE project management skills, methodology and checkpoints to deliver capital funded ‘built environment’ projects across all areas of the Trust. Projects will be a mixture of building related, engineering and sustainability schemes.Develop and maintain project documentation.This will include Project Implementation Documents (PIDS), plans and programmes, specifications and drawings, risk registers and CDM (2015) compliance information, change management and waypoints/gateways monitoring to completion.
Work with procurement specialists to identify and deliver suitable routes to market to procure works.Provide reporting at key stages of projects to Estates, Sustainability, programme boards and committees as directed and/or as required by specific funding streams.
For each project working with stakeholders, identify, generate and maintain a suitable risk register, ensuring that it is reviewed regularly, shared with stakeholders and mitigations are actioned in a timely manner.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria- Degree educated with post graduate knowledge and experience.
- Experience of successfully managing complex projects
- Working knowledge contracts and statutory standards, including the Construction, Design and Management Regulations (CDM2015), HTM’s, British Standards and Codes of Practice.
- Experience of statutory compliance and how it fits within capital projects
- Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to develop strategies
- Knowledge of working in an Estates and sustainability environment
- Experience or working in an ambulance or similar environment
The East Midlands has a lot to offer:
Excellent Location
Making a Difference
Action Packed Roles
Support and Belonging
Accessibility
If you have any accessibility requirements at any point during the recruitment process, then please contact the recruiting manager.
If you haven’t heard back from us within eight weeks of the closing date please consider your application unsuccessful.
Due to the high volume of applications received we are unable to provide updates on the progress of applications and only successful candidates at shortlisting stage will be contacted, regrettably feedback will not be provided. If you are unsuccessful at this stage please refer back to the job description, person specification and advertised requirements for ways to improve your future applications.
Internal candidates applying for vacancies must have completed their probationary period (stated within your contract) at point of application.
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust is an equal opportunities and Disability Confident employer, committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We actively encourage interest from across our diverse communities. Black and Minority Ethnic staff are currently under-represented within our workforce, and we welcome applications from within these communities.
We are keen to promote a positive work-life balance. We recognise the importance of being able to spend quality time with family and friends and to engage in your own personal interests outside of work, which alongside work helps us to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.We are committed to embedding the NHS People Promise to support colleagues to work flexibly in a way that works for our patients, for us and for you. Many of our staff already work flexibly in many different ways, including job share, part-time or other flexible working patterns.
Please talk openly to us at interview about flexible working opportunities. In addition, if a role is advertised as home based, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations, so please talk to us about the options available to you.
If it works for our service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
At EMAS we believe that our culture should be built upon our core values and that our behaviour should reflect these. Our values – respect, integrity, contribution, teamwork and compassion - underpin everything we do – how we deliver our services and how we work with each other.We believe that it’s our people who make EMAS what it is.
Our Vision - Responding to patient needs in the right way, developing our organisation to become outstanding for patients and staff, and collaborating to improve wider healthcare.
Please note we reserve the right to withdraw this vacancy if an internal member of staff on our redeployment register expresses an interest and is successful for this vacancy, or if a sufficient number of applications is received.
Please be aware if you are applying for a Frontline role, an Enhanced DBS clearance check will be required, and depending on the nature of other non-patient facing roles this check may also be required if offered a position with EMAS (All spent and unspent convictions must declared).
If you are not part of the update service, you will be liable for the payment and this will be deducted from your first months’ salary. The current cost of an enhanced DBS check is £55.38.