Senior Consultant, Healthcare Strategy & Planning; Health & Life Sciences

Position: Senior Consultant, Healthcare Strategy & Planning (Health & Life Sciences)
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.

WSP 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. A little more about your role…As Senior Consultant, Healthcare Strategy and Planning (HS+P) you will be joining an established post within the WSP Healthcare Strategy & Planning team. In conjunction with the Director and other colleagues you will help achieve the overall business plan to 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.

The role is a client facing, and you will be expected to be a leader within the HS+P team in developing healthcare strategy and planning expertise, processes and procedures to ensure a quality assured service delivery.

You will be responsible for the delivery and performance of healthcare strategy and planning advisory services of varying breadth and scope, managing those projects, and leading teams or working as part of a team on major commissions.

You will be expected to contribute to an annual new business development target in relation to the development of a portfolio of consultancy clients. You will also contribute to and provide support in preparing tender responses and delivering presentations for new business opportunities.

What we will be looking for you to demonstrate…Expertise: you have extensive knowledge of health services and or health facilities gained either through clinical practice, through working in other roles within health providers or as a professional contributing to healthcare projects. You will undertake technical inputs as required for individual projects including - but not limited to - strategic analysis, demand and capacity modelling, models of care, clinical and functional briefing, schedules of accommodation and design reviews

Agility: you will support the delivery of a wide range of projects related clinical and operational strategy development, clinical and operational health services and facilities planning, employing tools and methods developed byWSP and developing improved methods and tools

Interpersonal skills: you will act as the client relationship manager for individual clients and account manage issues for existing and new clients within a portfolio

Facilitation skills: you will lead clinical stakeholder engagement sessions and manage engagement programmes

Excellent writing skills: you will be responsible for writing reports, briefs, and contributions to business cases, as well as peer reviewing texts by colleagues for accuracy and quality

Data analytics skills: you will employ models to assess health service needs and demands at various levels and scales

Creativity and solutions focus: you will help clients investigate the needs of their services, develop solutions, review and assess options. You will participate in the development of service models and their quality assurance

Work with clients and project teams ensure that proposals for investment take into account productivity gains and facilitate transformation in service delivery

Natural curiosity and ability to apply rigour to evidence reviews: you will keep abreast of trends and research healthcare planning topics and establish the approach to investigating key lines of…