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About the Role

As an Assistant Consultant or Consultant, Healthcare Strategy and Planning (HS+P), you will join an established post within the WSP Healthcare Strategy & Planning team. You will help grow and develop strategic healthcare planning as a leading-edge offering to external clients, including NHS organisations and private sector clients in the UK and overseas. Your role is client-facing, and you will be expected to contribute to the team in developing healthcare strategy and planning expertise, processes, and procedures to ensure quality-assured service delivery.

Responsibilities

Deliver and perform healthcare strategy and planning advisory services of varying breadth and scope, working as part of a team.
Contribute to and provide support in preparing tender responses.
Deliver presentations for new business opportunities.
Undertake technical inputs as required for individual projects including strategic analysis, demand and capacity modelling, models of care, clinical and functional briefing, schedules of accommodation and design reviews.
Support the delivery of a wide range of projects related to clinical and operational strategy development, clinical and operational health services and facilities planning, employing tools and methods developed by WSP.
Interact professionally with stakeholders at all levels within client organisations in meetings and workshops.
Contribute to or lead clinical stakeholder engagement sessions.
Write reports, briefs, and contributions to business cases.
Employ models to assess health service needs and demands at various levels and scales.
Help clients investigate the needs of their services, develop solutions, review and assess options.
Keep abreast of trends and research healthcare planning topics.
Help investigate key lines of enquiry arising out of projects.
Contribute to projects in all parts of the globe, developing an understanding of local cultures and practices.
Share best practice observations across regions and deliver healthcare strategy and planning solutions tailored to local needs, practices and priorities.
Be part of a multi-disciplinary team and help colleagues manage the team’s workload.
Develop processes and procedures to provide a quality-assured service for clients.
Manage your workload and inputs into individually owned projects.
Contribute as a team member to larger commissions.
Monitor personal inputs contributing to high-quality project deliverables and outcomes.
Contribute to new business development and bid and tender preparation.
Contribute to the Health and Life Sciences Advisory business target as part of the HS+P team.

Requirements

Working knowledge of health services and/or health facilities.
Very good writing skills.
Data analytics skills.
Creativity and solutions-focus.
Natural curiosity and ability to apply rigour to evidence reviews.
Openness and curiosity.
Spirit of collaboration.
Organisational skills.

Skills

Strategic analysis
Demand and capacity modelling
Models of care
Clinical and functional briefing
Schedules of accommodation
Design reviews
Clinical and operational strategy development
Clinical and operational health services and facilities planning
Stakeholder engagement
Report writing
Business case preparation
Data analytics
Healthcare planning
Teamwork
Workload management

Location

Work Type

Hybrid working
Part-time
Flexible working

Experience Level

Assistant Consultant
Consultant

Benefits

Hybrid working policy (work from home two days a week)
Thrive programme for health and wellbeing
Virtual GP service
Reasonable workplace adjustments
Gymflex scheme (up to 40% off annual gym memberships)
Comprehensive menopause support package
WSP My Hour (one hour each day for personal activities)
Option to purchase additional leave
Ability to use bank holiday entitlement flexibly
Supportive environment for development, training, mentoring, or Chartership

About the Company

WSP is one of the world’s leading engineering and professional services firms.
Our passionate people are united by the common purpose of creating positive, long-lasting impacts on the communities we serve through a culture of innovation, integrity, and inclusion.
With over 11,000 professionals across the UK and Ireland, we are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international brainpower.
We are helping organisations to become more efficient and effective in the core sectors that we work in; whether improving patient pathways for the NHS, developing laboratories to facilitate world-leading science, or rationalising educational campuses to attract the highest calibre students and research investment.
Our clients tell us that we are different from other consultancies.
They know that we have a wide range of skills across the business that gives us a competitive edge over other organisations.
By joining WSP, you will be part of the journey with our clients and colleagues.
Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world.

Equal Opportunity

We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.
As a Disability Confident leader, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria, please let us know if you require any workplace adjustments in support of your application.