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The New Hospital Programme is more than building hospitals, itโs a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in England. Weโre delivering over 40 new hospitals that will be modern, sustainable and built around the needs of patients and staff. Weโre 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.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ryan Davin, Job title: Senior Resourcing Business Partner, Email address: ryan.davin@nhs.net
Seniority level: Director
Employment type: Full-time
Job function: Engineering and Information Technology
Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
Location: London, England
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Job Details
Posted Date:
January 11, 2026
Job Type:
Construction
Location:
London, United Kingdom
Company:
NHS England
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