Healthcare Planner / Senior Healthcare Planner in Birmingham

The location of this role is flexible and we welcome applications from anywhere across the United Kingdom.

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices. We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

About the business unit

The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald’s regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross‑sector skills across five key sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview of the role

Our Global Health team is looking to recruit a Consultant to help grow our healthcare planning offering and support the wider development of our project teams within the healthcare sector globally. The candidate would ideally have a track record or experience of delivering some of the following healthcare planning services:

• Population needs assessments
• Activity modelling and capacity planning
• Patient flow modelling
• Preparing schedules of accommodation and adjacency matrices

This role, with a focus on healthcare planning, would be able to demonstrate a strong track record in undertaking many of the technical aspects of a healthcare planner, including but not limited to needs assessment, healthcare capacity planning, development of functional content and schedules of accommodation for new healthcare infrastructure, healthcare equipment listing, and the development of clinical briefs and operational output specifications to support healthcare business case developments.

Our specialist health team is embedded in the delivery of health and healthcare programmes covering three key strands:

• ODA (official development assistance) public health work
• Embedding health considerations across the work that other business sectors in Mott MacDonald work in

This team comprises a wide range of health‑related professionals including clinicians, healthcare management consultants and programme and project managers. This team works closely across the three strands and with other teams across Mott MacDonald’s technical and engineering disciplines. Our healthcare system design and reconfiguration strand covers service redesign and reconfiguration, strategic healthcare planning, evaluation, productivity improvements, impact assessments, change management including digital interventions, and information analysis and modelling.

About you

The role of Consultant would be focused primarily on supporting the growth of this strand of work and able to deliver some or all of these commission types, with a particular emphasis on leading the technical healthcare planning in healthcare system and hospital design projects and in offering our clients more imaginative service offers to suit their needs.

The Consultant provides leadership for winning and delivering projects, ensuring that the project is delivered successfully for the client and for Mott MacDonald. Successful technical delivery and maintenance of trust between the client and the company is key to commercial and financial success for Mott MacDonald. The Consultant will have ultimate responsibility for engaging with clients and will oversee Project Managers and support team members responsible for the commissions as well as mentoring and coaching as necessary, with the prime aim of ensuring the projects are able to deliver a successful outcome.

Key responsibilities and duties

• Responsible for leading on many of the technical healthcare planning components of healthcare system and hospital redesign within individual assignments
• Winning and securing new project commissions through successful pre‑positioning with customers and bidding
• The successful completion of all projects under their oversight as Principal Consultant. Success means technical, commercial and financial success and realisation of client benefits agreed at tender stage. Broken down it means:

• Technical success: implementing a commission delivery strategy to meet the objectives and scope provided by the client
• Commercial success: ensuring contract terms and risk mitigations from tender stage are put into practice and that terms and risk are challenged during the tender stage to ensure the project is feasible
• Financial success: delivering the commission in accordance with the budget and actively managing change
• Client satisfaction: engaging with clients to manage relationships and leading the delivery team to deliver the commission scope on time and to budget
• Sound project governance: instigating formal reviews and application of lessons learnt within the project, assessing whether project structure is fit for purpose, ensuring that risks are reviewed and mitigations put in place, and that the commission delivery plan is actively used to manage the project
• Health, safety and welfare: always working to Mott MacDonald’s global standards and reviewing health, safety and welfare alongside project commercials and risk

Degree or Masters level or equivalent

Relevant experience in the NHS or healthcare consultancy environment, with an emphasis on healthcare facility planning

Track record in leading and supporting the delivery of complex projects in healthcare on time and on budget

Can demonstrate examples of problem‑solving skills to achieve delivery of a solution or outcome

Excellent report‑writing experience, appropriate to different audiences

Experience of supporting business‑development opportunities, for example developing new client relationships, writing proposals and business cases

Experience of being client‑facing

Effective interpersonal skills

Capable of working autonomously or as part of a team

We are actively recruiting a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities we serve. We recognise that differences in ability, skills and experience are a strength and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

Accessibility

We want you to perform your best at every stage in the recruitment process. If you are disabled or need any support to enable you to apply or attend an interview, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we will talk to you about how we can support you.

Benefits

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

• Financial wellbeing
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• Employee Ownership
• Health and wellbeing
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.
• Lifestyle
• Learning and development
• Networks, communities, and social outcomes

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