Consultant (Healthcare Strategy & Planning)

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. A little more about your role… As Consultant, Healthcare Strategy and Planning (HS+P) you will be joining an established post within the Lexica 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. The 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 Lexica. 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. Don’t quite meet all the criteria? Apply, and we can see how your experience aligns to this role and other opportunities within the team. Imagine a better future for you and a better future for us all. Join our close-knit community of talented individuals who share your passion for making a positive impact. Our global team includes more than 69,000 employees, working together to make a difference in communities both close to home and around the world. With us, you can. Apply today. #LI-HR1 #AVY1