East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Capital & Healthcare Planning Project Manager
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Capital & Healthcare Planning Project Manager to join ESNEFT's Capital & Healthcare Planning team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.
This role will play a pivotal part in the development of a proposed Pharmacy Aseptic Manufacturing Unit at Colchester Hospital, supporting the Trust through a critical phase of healthcare planning, capital investment, and design development.
- Working alongside clinical teams, estates professionals, and external consultants, you will lead the appointment of professional advisers and design teams, coordinate the progression of the project through RIBA Stages 1-4, and support the development of the business case required to secure investment and approvals.
- The role will also provide project management expertise to ensure programme, cost, quality, and risk objectives are achieved.
This is an opportunity to contribute to a strategically important healthcare investment that will support the future delivery of pharmacy services across North Essex and Suffolk. You will work as part of a dynamic Capital & Healthcare Planning team delivering some of the Trust's most significant transformation and capital programmes.
Base: Colchester Hospital with travel across ESNEFT sites as required
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead procurement and appointment of architects, cost consultants, engineers, and other professional advisers.
- Coordinate design development activities through to RIBA Stage 4 Technical Design.
- Support the preparation of Strategic Outline, Outline, and Full Business Cases as required.
- Facilitate stakeholder engagement with pharmacy teams, clinical services, operational managers, and external partners.
- Manage project programmes, risks, actions, and reporting arrangements.
- Coordinate technical, clinical, operational, and financial inputs to support investment decisions.
- Prepare reports, presentations, and governance papers for senior management and Trust approvals.
- Ensure projects are delivered in line with NHS guidance, Trust objectives, and approved timescales.
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We are looking for an individual with:
- Experience of managing capital, healthcare planning, construction, or infrastructure projects.
- Knowledge of NHS business case development and governance processes.
- Experience of appointing and managing professional advisers and multidisciplinary design teams.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, and project management skills.
- The ability to coordinate complex programmes involving multiple workstreams and competing priorities.
- A degree-level qualification or equivalent experience in project management, construction, estates, healthcare planning, or a related discipline.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics, and in patients’ own homes.
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We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals, we offer:
- A generous pension scheme
- Unsocial hours payments (where applicable)
- 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata)
- Access to a range of NHS discounts
- Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: James Archard
Job title: Director of Capital & Healthcare Planning
Email address: james.archard@esneft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07932 007298
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