We are delighted to be working with RFL property Services to find an interim Healthcare Planner as a new role for the company.

RFL property Services is a wholly owned subsidiary to the RFL NHS Trust and works with the hospital within the group and various national commissions to support estate development, project management and more.

About The Role

 
We are looking to recruit a Healthcare planner with a construction background. The candidate would ideally have a track record or experience of delivering some of the following healthcare planning services:
• Population needs assessments
• Activity modelling & capacity planning
• Patient flow modelling
• Service model development
• Preparing Schedules of Accommodation and adjacency matrices

This role, with a focus on Healthcare Planning, would be able to demonstrate a strong track record in undertaking many of the technical aspects of a healthcare planner, using the RIBA stages, including: needs assessment, healthcare capacity planning, development of functional content and schedules of accommodation for new healthcare infrastructure, healthcare equipment listing, and the development of clinical briefs and operational output specifications to support healthcare business case developments.

Our clients comprises a wide range of health-related professionals including clinicians, healthcare management consultants and programme and project managers. We cover service redesign and reconfiguration, strategic healthcare planning, evaluation, productivity improvements, impact assessments, change management (including digital interventions) and information analysis and modelling.

About You

The role of Healthcare Planner (Construction)  would be focussed primarily on delivering  some or all of these commission types, with a particular emphasis on leading the technical healthcare planning in healthcare system and hospital design projects and in offering our clients more imaginative service offers to suit their needs.

Qualifications / skills

• Degree/ Masters level or equivalent
• Relevant experience in the NHS or healthcare consultancy environment, with an emphasis on healthcare facility planning
• Track record in leading and supporting the delivery of complex projects in healthcare on time and on budget
• Can demonstrate examples of problem-solving skills to achieve delivery of a solution or outcome
• Excellent report writing experience, appropriate to different audiences
• Experience of supporting business development opportunities, for example, developing new client relationships, writing proposals, business cases
• Experience of being client facing
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Capable of working autonomously or as part of a team