Environmental Sustainability Project Manager | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Environmental Sustainability Project Manager | Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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Company: Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Sustainability Project Manager to lead the delivery of the Green Plan (2025-2028) across Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

The post holder will play a key role in driving forward carbon reduction initiatives, improving resource efficiency, and embedding sustainable practices across clinical and non-clinical services.

The role requires strong project management skills, stakeholder engagement, and a solid understanding of sustainability within a healthcare setting.

Applicants should have demonstrable experience delivering complex projects, ideally within the NHS or a similarly regulated environment, with a focus on environmental sustainability and organisational change.

The successful applicant will join a collaborative and forward-thinking team, working closely with estates, procurement, clinical services, and corporate departments to deliver measurable environmental improvements.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a leading specialist NHS Trust, supporting innovation, education, and research while advancing sustainability across hospital and community settings.

Moorfields is committed to delivering high-quality patient care alongside its environmental responsibilities, and this role will be instrumental in shaping and implementing sustainable healthcare practices across the organisation.

To lead the delivery of sustainability projects across the Trust, ensuring alignment with the Moorfields Green Plan and wider NHS Net Zero targets.

Toidentify, develop and implement initiatives that reduce carbon emissions, improve resource efficiency, and embed environmentally sustainable practices across clinical and non-clinical services.

To support the development and monitoring of sustainability programmes, including data collection, analysis, and reporting on environmental performance.

To ensure robust governance of projects, including risk management, financial oversight, and delivery against agreed timelines and outcomes.

To provide expert advice and guidance on sustainability to colleagues across theorganisation, promoting best practice and supportingbehaviourchange initiatives.

To contribute to staff engagement, educationand training to embed a culture of sustainability throughout the Trust.

Torepresentthe Trust in regional and national sustainability networks, contributing to the development of NHS-wide initiatives and sharing learning and innovation.

To support the Trust's reputation as a leader in sustainable healthcare through collaboration, research, and continuous improvement.

Join Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At Moorfields, people's sight matters-and so do the people who make it possible.

For over 200 years, Moorfields has been at the forefront of ophthalmic care, research, and education.

With more than 2,300 dedicated team members and over700,000 patientsseen annually across our City Road site and 22 networked sites, we are proud to be a global centre of excellence.

We'realso a vibrant community where kindness, equityand excellence shape every aspect of our work.

Whetherit'spioneering research through our partnership with UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre or training the next generation of global eye care leaders, we'reunited by one mission-delivering world-class eye health, sustainably and at scale.

From 2027, we'llmove to our brand-new Oriel site in St Pancras, Camden-a state-of-the-artcentre that will unite eye care, research, and education under one roof.

This groundbreaking facility, developed in partnership with UCL Institute of Ophthalmology and Moorfields Eye Charity, will enable transformative innovation and collaboration like never before.

Could you be part of this future? Make us more.

• PROJECT DELIVERY
• Identify, initiateand co-ordinateappropriate projectproposals to improve environmentalsustainability..
• Ensure that projectobjectives, scope, deliverables, critical successfactorsand risks are clearly documented and agreed prior to project start.
• Establish a project team withappropriate operational, clinicaland corporate team membership.

Co-ordinate the input of stakeholders and service users to ensure thatappropriate optionsare appraised and delivered.

• Perform benefits analysis and baseline current system performance before each project starts and ensure there is a plan in place for handover to the operational and clinical leads.
• Ensure all project documentation and reports are prepared and delivered as specified in the project communications plan and in line with agreed reporting schedules.
• Set-up and lead project team meetings, involving stakeholders and project team members.

Responsible for controlling, directing, planningandallocatingwork and motivating service users to get directly, or indirectly involved with the project and its development.

• Manage the implementation costs and resourcesallocatedto the project.
• Co-ordinate the activity of project team members and contributors ensuring that tasks and work packages are completed satisfactorily and on schedule.
• Regularly report on progress, monitoringprogress against plan, delivery of the projectobjectives, and post project review including updating the lessons learned and decision logs.
• Undertake anyadditionalduties appropriate to the post, as may be required by the service and as delegated by the Director for Service Improvement.
• COMMUNICATIONS
• Provide advice and guidance to staff and managers across the Trust in relation to sustainability, act as an advocate and champion for sustainability.
• Develop andmaintainstrong working relationships witha number ofoperational, clinicaland corporate management teams including developing good knowledge of the overall programme aims, objectivesand initiativesso as toprovidemeaningful expert advice.
• Provide advice and guidance to staff and managers across the Trust in relation to sustainability.
• Represent the Trust to contractors, suppliersand providers in furtherance of projectobjectives.
• The post holder willbe requiredto communicate and engage constructively with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders on a range ofhighly complex, specialist and often contentious issues.
• FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
• Where relevant, responsibility for managing approved implementation costs and benefits delivery for projects, totalling a net worth between £50K to £2M.
• To work within the Trust's standing financial instructions and controls.
• PEOPLE MANAGEMENT
• Large scale (estimated 5-20 at anyone time, managerand clinician level and above) relationship contacts requiring intensive influencing and relationship skills.
• Role model the Moorfield's Way values and behaviours both individually and through the team.
• Ensure that behavioural expectations of team members areestablished.
• This advert closes on Saturday 15 Aug 2026
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