Senior Project Manager - Smart Buildings Lead

Employer Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Leighton Hospital Town Crewe Salary £55,690 – £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/08/2025 23:59

Senior Project Manager – Smart Buildings Lead

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are thrilled to present an exceptional opportunity to become a part of the dynamic team delivering a new Leighton Hospital campus as part of the New Hospital Programme (NHP).

Our New Leighton Hospital Campus is a once in a generation opportunity to transform the district health and care model for the future.

This role will lead the delivery of Smart Buildings for the Healthier Futures programme, delivering all aspects required by the New Hospital Programme standards and guidelines.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties of the Job

The role will have the following key dimensions:

• Strategy and business case development

Leadership and communications

Service development and transformation

People management and development

Finance, resource and information management

Please see attached job description for full details of the main duties.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community services for East Cheshire (population 399K) and West Cheshire and Chester (population 357K). Our services include planned and unplanned/emergency care, cardiac and critical care, child health, maternity, and intermediate care across Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford.
Through our community arm, Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership, we deliver extensive services in 26 medical centres and schools in collaboration with Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS FT and the South Cheshire and Vale Royal GP Alliance. With 500 beds and around 5,500 staff, we are one of the area’s largest employers.

Since the formation of Integrated Care Systems in July 2022, the Trust has become a key partner in Cheshire East & Cheshire West and Chester and in two provider collaboratives, aligning our strategic goals with the Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care System.
As part of the national New Hospital Programme, we’re reimagining Leighton Hospital to create a new health and care neighbourhood, transforming healthcare delivery for a Healthier Future. Learn more on our Healthier Futures website .

At Mid Cheshire, our mission is to inspire hope and provide unparalleled care for the people and communities of Cheshire, helping them to enjoy life to the fullest.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for the development and delivery of the Smart Buildings target digital outcome and delivering on the five desired outcomes of Clinical Safety, Operational Efficiency, Enhanced Security, Improved Experience and Service Productivity.

This role will be responsible for delivering the Smart Buildings GAP analysis and the creation, delivery and continuous improvement of the Smart Building Strategy.

The roles key focus will be in developing and delivering the Smart Buildings digital capabilities, including Operational Control Centre, Artificial Intelligence, Analytic Systems, IoTs, Security, Asset Tracking, Integration Gateways, BIM, Intelligent BMS and Intelligent Energy in line with the New Hospital Programme required deliveries.

The role will also lead on data standards for Smart Buildings and work closely across the Healthier Futures Technical and Digital Workstreams to ensure back-to-back compatibility of data, digital and infrastructure standards across the workstream deliverables.

They will work collaboratively with both the estates and facilities management and digital teams, both within the Healthier Futures team, wider Trust departments, Technical Partners and Healthier Future Design and Construction teams.

They will also be responsible for the creation of a training and development programme to ensure the wider digital and EFM teams have the skills, knowledge and confidence to deliver the Smart Building solutions in the operational hospital. This will extend through the future business as usual operational delivery of the new intelligent hospital.

This role will lead on the development of wider technical digital elements of the Smart Buildings and Intelligent Hospital Capabilities in support of the Technical Workstream MEP Lead and Digital Workstream Lead. This will include the production of technical and delivery strategies in support of the smart building delivery. This will include specifically data standards, control and ownership to support the interoperability and cyber security of systems across functions and platforms.

A key aspect of this role is also to ensure that the data produced and used across the smart buildings systems and platforms is fully owned by MCHT and interchangeable with external market products.

This role will also lead on the development of technical and equipping strategies and lead on procurement and commercial input with regards to Smart Building technologies.

Many of these pieces of work are key to delivery of the outline business case (OBC) and full business case (FBC).

The post holder will be the subject matter expert in Smart Buildings and have strong technical experience within the digital services and Operational Estates and / or Capital Estate functions, to be able to engage with key pieces of work for delivery within NHP deadlines.

The post holder will also have a strong understanding of clinical systems and a good understanding of clinical operational delivery.

The post holder will have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, excellent experience in integrating multi technology platforms, strong knowledge of data standards and brands of product across estates and digital functions.

The post holder will have solid communication skills and a strong desire to tackle the complex problems of scale and the ability to take responsibility and be accountable for the Smart Buildings deliverables.

The post-holder will lead relevant projects that impact on the organisation including the architecture of implementing new technology onto the Trust network as a proof of concept in support of the main Healthier Futures Programme and Smart Building delivery.

Person specification

Qualifications/Knowledge/Previous Experience

• Educated to Masters level in relevant area of expertise (digital, estates and facilities, change management or transformation) or equivalent.
• Qualifications in programme or project management (PRINCE 2 or equivalent).
• Qualifications in health service management, such as change management, workforce redesign.
• Detailed knowledge of the design and construction process.

Skills

• Significant experience of working within estates (Captial or Operational) and facilities environment or within digital/IT services.
• Proven track record of large-scale programme management.
• Success in working collaboratively with multiple departments; experience in service improvement within complex strategic programmes.
• Expert knowledge in Hospital Smart Buildings and digital estates.
• Knowledge of Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) methodology.
• Strong knowledge of data standard.
• Experience of working on capital programmes.

Values

• Excellent communication skills including interpersonal, liaison and negotiation, written and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence senior managers and leaders for service improvement; utilisation of leadership abilities to motivate and empower others.
• Ability to develop implement policies, guidelines and projects from inception to completion and hand over.
• Ability to act independently to meet tight deadlines, prioritising work and meeting work demands.
• Experience of developing policies and guidance

Key Messages

· Please let us know if you require an adjustment to our recruitment process.

· All correspondence will be sent via the email address you have registered as your TRAC account.

· Selection is based on the Trust\’s values, and the criteria outlined in the Job Description for the role.

· Employers have a legal responsibility to ensure that their employees have a “right to work” in the UK. Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust hold a Sponsor Licence, which means that we MAY be able to sponsor you IF the role meets the UK Government requirements for sponsorship. Not all NHS roles are eligible for sponsorship. To be eligible for sponsorship, the role must be in an eligible occupation code and must meet the skill level and the minimum salary threshold. You can find more information on the Government website .

· Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the entry point (bottom) of the pay band.

· Appointments are subject to a 6-month probationary period. LED Doctors are subject to a 3-month probationary period.

· Please provide a contact email address for referees when you submit your application. We will not request any references until after you have been made a formal job offer.

· You will be required to pay for your DBS disclosure (where the post requires one). This will be done via 3 monthly instalments from your pay. We encourage applicants to join and remain registered with the DBS update service.

· We do not reimburse travel to interview expenses.

· Secondments will be considered for fixed term positions when both parties agree. Candidates should seek approval from their current line manager before application.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Name Jim O\’Brien Job title MEP Lead Email address Telephone number 01270 692727 Additional information

Please contact Frankie Cameron for further details on or 01270 692727.

If you have problems applying, contact

Address Recruitment Team
Leighton Hospital
Middlewich Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 4QJ
Telephone 01270 904488

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