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

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 are recruiting at Consultant and Senior Consultant levels within our Healthcare Assets and Partnerships team.

We seek dynamic, ambitious candidates with experience in NHS business case development (ideally including primary care business cases), primary care healthcare planning, and expertise in developing strategies and plans for integrated healthcare hub projects. This is an opportunity to join a large and growing specialist advisory team within a dynamic, forward-thinking company, providing specialist capital project consultancy services and technical advice on estate strategies and capital projects.

The role typically involves working as part of a team supporting clients, with increasing autonomy over time. You will have a strong understanding of the UK healthcare market and current issues related to property and capital projects. There are opportunities for career development through formal and informal training and support, enabling you to take on more challenging and independent work as your skills and confidence grow.

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services advisory companies with a successful and expanding healthcare consultancy business. We are appointed to several national frameworks providing excellent access to public sector clients. The Healthcare and Lifesciences Advisory (HSLA) team offers a wide range of strategic advisory and project delivery expertise to the NHP, NHS Trusts, ICBs, GPs, independent hospitals, contractors, and PPP consortia across various procurement routes.

The HSLA team provides healthcare planning including market analysis, activity and capacity modelling, SOAs, and design development support; coordinates and writes business cases to secure capital funding; develops estate strategies from PCN through NHS Trust to ICS-wide; plans moves into new hospitals; offers PPP and FM consultancy support; delivers healthcare service transformation and digital healthcare services; and provides project, programme, and cost management services alongside property management advice.

This team works alongside many complementary teams delivering economic advisory, design management, business rates and valuations, town planning, risk consultancy, building surveying, environmental and energy advice, engineering design, transport planning, GIS, and development advice. An exciting aspect of the role is the opportunity to integrate these services with healthcare clients to help make their services and estates future ready.

Experience
- UK/NHS health sector experience within a professional services consultancy.
- Proven track record in NHS business case development, ideally including primary care business cases.
- Experience in primary care healthcare planning and developing strategies and plans for integrated healthcare hub projects.
- Experience preparing elements of tender submissions and delivering presentations to win new work.
- Experience in external and internal networking.

About you
- Strong understanding of NHS property and capital project policy, processes, guidance, and stakeholders.
- Knowledge of the construction and property lifecycle.
- Ability to advise clients on best practice approaches.
- Skilled in researching, analysing data, and presenting findings verbally, in writing, or graphically.
- Comfortable co-facilitating workshops or chairing meetings.
- Numerate and confident with spreadsheets.
- Able to prepare project plans and programmes.
- Understanding of risk and risk management techniques.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage sensitively with diverse project stakeholders.
- Commercially astute, recognising opportunities and constraints related to consultancy service delivery.
- Excellent MS Office skills.

Qualifications
- Degree qualified.
- One or more of the following: PRINCE2 Practitioner, MSP, APMPQ, Better Business Cases Practitioner, MSc Planning Buildings for Health, or other relevant professional qualifications.

Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply and we will consider how your experience aligns with this role and other opportunities within the team.