Location
London with hybrid-working or office-based options. Birmingham also considered.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Do you want to help WSP support healthcare providers in planning and delivering world-class, future-ready healthcare facilities? We have ambitious growth plans and a strong pipeline of work and now need to recruit an Assistant Healthcare Planning Consultant to join our Healthcare Assets and Partnerships team.

We are looking for a dynamic, ambitious candidate with some experience or knowledge of primary care healthcare planning or integrated healthcare hub projects. This is an opportunity to join a large and growing specialist advisory team in a dynamic, forward-thinking company and develop the skills to provide specialist capital project consultancy services and related technical advice to clients on their estate strategies and capital projects.

The position is ideally based in London or Birmingham with hybrid-working or office-based options. You will support the growing team on projects supporting our clients, working towards increasing autonomy. You will have the opportunity to develop your career with formal and informal training and support and take on more challenging and independent work as your skills and confidence grow.

This is a varied role, with responsibilities including:
- Supporting the delivery of healthcare advisory projects to agreed quality, budget and programme requirements
- Undertaking research and analysis relating to healthcare policy, service delivery, population health, estates and infrastructure planning
- Contributing to reports, business cases, presentations and client documentation
- Supporting workshop preparation, stakeholder engagement activities and project meetings
- Maintaining project documentation and ensuring information is accurately recorded
- Building positive working relationships with clients and internal project teams
- Supporting the preparation of bids, proposals and marketing materials
- Contributing to market intelligence gathering and sector research
- Helping identify emerging healthcare challenges and opportunities

About your team:
WSP is one of the world's leading professional services advisory companies. We have a growing and successful healthcare consultancy business and are appointed to several national frameworks that provide excellent access to public sector clients. This team is part of WSP’s specialist Healthcare and Lifesciences Advisory (HSLA) team which provides a range of strategic advisory and project delivery expertise to the NHP, NHS Trusts, ICBs, GPs, independent hospitals, contractors and PPP consortia across a variety of procurement routes.

The HSLA team provides services including healthcare planning ranging from market analysis, activity and capacity modelling to SOAs and design development support; coordinating and writing business cases to secure capital funding for investment in new healthcare developments; developing estate strategies from PCN through NHS Trust to ICS-wide; planning moves into new hospitals; providing PPP and FM consultancy support; healthcare service transformation support; delivering digital healthcare services; project, programme and cost management services; and property management advice.

Experience
Prior experience of the NHS / UK health sector is preferred. Knowledge of NHS property and capital project policy, processes, guidance and stakeholders is essential. An understanding of construction and property lifecycle is required. Proven ability to research, analyse data and present findings verbally, in writing or graphically. Numerate and comfortable working with spreadsheets.

About you
Excellent communication skills with an ability to engage sensitively with different project stakeholders. Commercially astute, recognising opportunities and constraints in relation to the delivery of consultancy services. Strong MS Office skills. Dynamic, ambitious and motivated to develop skills and take on increasing responsibility. Ability to build positive working relationships with clients and internal teams.

Qualifications
Formal qualifications are not explicitly stated but relevant experience or knowledge in healthcare planning or integrated healthcare hub projects is desirable. Willingness to learn and develop within a growing specialist advisory team is essential.