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 assist 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 between Consultant and Senior Consultant levels in our Healthcare Assets and Partnerships team.

We are looking for 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 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 usually work as part of a team supporting clients, progressing towards increasing autonomy. You will have a good understanding of the UK healthcare market and current issues related to property and capital projects.

You will have the opportunity to develop your career with formal and informal training and support, taking 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 growing and successful healthcare consultancy business. We are appointed to several national frameworks providing excellent access to public sector clients. The Healthcare and Lifesciences Advisory (HSLA) team provides a 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 offers healthcare planning services including market analysis, activity and capacity modelling, SOAs, and design development support; coordinates and writes business cases to secure capital funding for new healthcare developments; develops estate strategies from PCN through NHS Trust to ICS-wide; plans moves into new hospitals; provides PPP and FM consultancy support; supports healthcare service transformation; delivers digital healthcare services; and provides project, programme, and cost management services along with property management advice.

The HSLA team works alongside many complementary teams on some of the country’s most iconic projects, providing services such as economic advisory; design management; business rates and valuations; town planning; risk consultancy; building surveying; environmental and energy advice; engineering design; transport planning; geographical information systems; and development advice. An exciting part of the role is the opportunity to connect these services with healthcare clients to help make their services and estates future ready.

Experience
- UK/NHS health sector experience working for a professional services consultancy
- Proven ability and track record working with clients 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 with external and internal networking

About you
- Knowledge of NHS property and capital project policy, processes, guidance, and stakeholders
- Understanding of construction and the property lifecycle
- Ability to advise clients on best practice approaches
- Strong research, data analysis, and presentation skills (verbal, written, graphical)
- Comfortable co-facilitating workshops or chairing meetings
- Numerate and comfortable with spreadsheets
- Ability to prepare project plans and programmes
- Understanding of risk and risk management techniques
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage sensitively with different project stakeholders
- Commercially astute, recognising opportunities and constraints in 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 can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team.