Healthcare Planner / Senior Healthcare Planner in Manchester

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 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
• Service model development
• 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.

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.
• Engaging with clients to manage relationships and leading the delivery team to deliver the commission scope on time and to budget.
• Instigating formal reviews and application of lessons learnt within the project.
• Always working to Mott MacDonald’s global standards and reviewing health, safety and welfare alongside project commercials and risk.

Candidate specification:

• 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.
• Effective interpersonal skills.
• Capable of working autonomously or as part of a team.

• Overseas experience.

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.

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.

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.

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 include financial wellbeing, employee ownership, health and wellbeing support, lifestyle benefits, enhanced family and carers leave, and learning and development opportunities.