Assistant Consultant / Consultant (Healthcare Strategy & Planning)

A little more about your role…

As an Assistant Consultant or 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 HS+P team, you will help 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.

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 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, working as part of a team.
 

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 a working knowledge of health services and or health facilities and 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 by WSP.
• Interpersonal skills: you will interact professionally with stakeholders at all levels within client organisations in meetings and workshops, contributing to or leading  clinical stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Very good writing skills: you will be responsible for writing reports, briefs, and contributions to business cases.
• Data analytics skills, which we can help you further develop: 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.
• Natural curiosity and ability to apply rigour to evidence reviews: you will keep abreast of trends and research healthcare planning topics and help investigate key lines of enquiry arising out of projects.
• Openness and curiosity: you will contribute to projects in all parts of the globe, developing an understanding of local cultures and practices. You will help share best practice observations across regions and deliver healthcare strategy and planning solutions tailored to local needs, practices and priorities.
• Spirit of collaboration: you will be a part of a multi-disciplinary team and will help your colleagues to manage the team’s workload and in developing processes and procedures to provide a quality assured service for clients.
• Organisational skills: you will manage your workload and inputs into individually owned projects and contribute as a team member to larger commissions. You will be responsible for monitoring personal inputs contributing to high quality project deliverables and outcomes.
• You will contribute to new business development and bid and tender preparation.
• As part of the HS+P team, you will contribute to the Health and Life Sciences Advisory business target.