Programme Director: Sponsorship Available

Barts Health NHS Trust

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated professional to fill our post of Capital Programme Director/Deputy Director of Estates.

This position is vital to ensure that we continue to provide high levels of service to our patients and staff whilst managing the capital funded projects on the Newham University Hospital (NUH) site.

Working closely with the Newham University Hospital (NUH) Hospital Executive Board (HEB), the Group Deputy Director of EFM Capital Programme PFI and Retained Estates & MES and the NUH Director of Estates, the Capital Programme Director will play a substantial contribution in ensuring that the corporate objectives of the Trust and Newham Hospital are achieved, with specific focus on the delivery of suitable, safe and secure premises and equipment.

The post holder will need to be working at a Senior Manager level and have recent relevant experience of leading multiple capital projects and managing programme interfaces with different contractors.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be professionally responsible and accountable for the standard, delivery, continual monitoring, risk management and review of the Newham University Hospital capital programme delivery to ensure a professional, high quality, cost effective and efficient service to meet the demands of the organisation, its staff and patients. The post holder will also play a significant role in contributing to the delivery of the Trust capital programme at a strategic level and occasionally at a project level for larger schemes or where more junior project managers need support.

The post holder will deputise for the Group Deputy Director EFM Capital Programme PFI and Retained Estates & MES and work closely with the other senior Trust clinical managers, heads of EFM Group Services, engineering staff, craft staff and construction professionals, clinicians, senior managers, along with statutory bodies and external agencies.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Management of capital programmes for development and maintenance of Estates, facilities and property
  • Financial management and analytical abilities including negotiating claims
  • Experience in procuring and delivering projects and contracts, via a range of procurement routes
  • Experience of managing building project teams, developing design briefs, service specifications, appointing and managing professional advisors and consultants.

Skills

Essential

  • Strategic Vision: Ability to translate corporate goals into clear, actionable estates and capital development strategies.
  • High-Value Negotiation: Proven skill in managing commercial disputes, final accounts, and complex supplier or contractor negotiations.
  • Stakeholder Influence: Advanced communication skills required to advise, challenge, and present complex technical data to Board-level executives and external regulatory bodies.
  • Multidisciplinary Team Leadership: Experience in recruiting, mentoring, and managing in-house project managers, surveyors, and external multi-disciplinary design teams.
  • Risk & Change Management: Expert utilization of corporate risk registers, mitigation strategies, and leading teams through large-scale organizational transitions.

Knowledge

Essential

  • Significant post qualification experience & track record of Managing capital projects assets and services, including budgets within a complex acute health environment
  • Significant experience operating at Senior level Deputy Director level, Head of Service
  • Managing strategic and operational change. Including the impact on assets, resources, services & staff and developing new ways of working

Qualifications

Essential

  • A degree or master’s level qualification in a relevant field such as construction, engineering, architecture, surveying, or estates management.
  • Project Management:

Desirable

  • Professional Chartership

Other

Essential

  • Ability to think and manage strategically and operationally
  • Self-motivated with a high level of focus, drive and energy
  • Ability to maintain detached, professional, impersonal, successful relationships
  • Maintains high standards of professionalism and confidentiality

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 1 November 2026

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