Associate Strategic Healthcare Planner; Health and Life Sciences

Position: Associate Strategic Healthcare Planner (Health and Life Sciences)
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A little more about your role…The Associate, Healthcare Strategy and Planning (HS+P) is a key role within the Lexica 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 full-time, client facing, and you will be expected to be a key 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 for leading teams 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 preparing tender responses and delivering presentations for new business opportunities.

Strategic healthcare planners with a clinical or design background, and healthcare planning experience, preferably including application of Hospital 2.0 guidance, are invited to apply.

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 an architect or other 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.

Support the training of new members of the team as the business grows.

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 by Lexica 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.

You will account manage a portfolio of clients and support expansion of our client base.

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…