Job Description

The New Hospital Programme is more than building hospitals, it's a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in England. We're delivering over 40 new hospitals that will be modern, sustainable and built around the needs of patients and staff. We're looking for people who care about purpose, who thrive in complex environments and who want to help deliver change at scale for future generations.



Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.



The purpose of the role is to be the Head of Discipline for Electrical Engineering for the New Hospital Programme, under the delegated authority of the Chief Engineer, ensuring that the Hospital 2.0 products and spatial designs deliver the Programme requirements, meet standards and are technically assured.

Key responsibilities:

Technical authority and leadership for the Electrical Engineering discipline. Defining, implementing and optimising the Design & Engineering strategy for the electrical scope.

Providing input to and directing the Programme Delivery Partner design team on all matters related to electrical engineering.

Overseeing and driving the definition, embedding and optimisation of interfaces, ways of working and accountabilities with the Programme Partner.

Overseeing the design deliverables from the Delivery Partner to ensure that the creation and development of Reference Designs meet standards and requirements.

Review and accept the assurance deliverables for this discipline from the Delivery Partner, in support of the NHP governance process.

Provide advice and support to NHP Trusts as appropriate to ensure they are able to successfully adopt the NHP electrical designs into their schemes (expert advice).

Initiate and support value management/engineering initiatives.

Manage the decision-making process for derogations and exemptions from H2.0 designs for this discipline



Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.



Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms -- including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial -- enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

We lead the NHS in England by:

Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities



Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential



Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care



Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation



Delivering value for money



Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.



If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.



You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached and other supporting documents.



For more information on the NHP programme



Due to ongoing organisational change and developments, aspects of this role may be subject to change.



By applying for this position, you acknowledge and understand that NHS England is currently undergoing a consultation process to finalise its structure, which may impact this role.