Senior Principal Health

Location/s: UK-home based
Recruiter contact: Aoife Cullen

Mott MacDonald is a global engineering, management, and development consultancy with over 20,000 employees across more than 50 countries and 140+ offices.

We work across incredible global industries, delivering exciting work that is defining our future and making an important societal impact in the communities we serve. Our people power our performance – we succeed when they do. With countless opportunities to collaborate, learn, and grow, the possibilities for excellence are as varied as every individual.

Whether you want to grow as a subject matter expert or broaden your experience with roles across our international community, you’re surrounded by global specialists who want to combine their expertise and champion you to be your best. As a proudly employee-owned business, we benefit our clients, our communities, and each other, investing in creating the right space for everyone to feel empowered, included, and valued. Whatever your ambition, Mott MacDonald is where people come to be brilliant.

About the business unit
The Buildings Unit (BLD) has a major presence in Mott MacDonald's regional offices throughout the UK and mainland Europe, providing a wide range of diverse and transferable cross-sector skills across five key Sectors; Advisory, Built Environment, Energy, Transportation and Water. We also provide local services to customers and technical leadership to the rest of the Group in these sectors.

Overview of the role

Our Global Health team is seeking a Consultant or Senior Consultant to help clients plan and deliver health services that are clinically effective, equitable, digitally enabled, sustainable and adaptable to future change.

The successful candidate will work with clients and multidisciplinary teams to understand population and service needs, challenge existing assumptions, develop future models of care and translate them into implementable requirements across services and the built environment. We are interested in candidates who combine strong healthcare-planning fundamentals with curiosity about how AI, data, digital integration, advancements in medicine and changing public expectations will influence future healthcare.

The successful candidate will have experience of delivering some of the following services:

• Population health assessment, including the impacts of health inequalities, prevention and earlier intervention
• Activity modelling and capacity planning
• Mapping and redesign of patient, staff, information, equipment, medication, supply and visitor flows across acute, primary and community care
• Integrated models of care spanning acute, primary, neighbourhood, community and home-based services across physical and mental health
• Virtual, remote and hybrid pathways, including the implications of digital integration for future models of care
• Schedules of accommodation, clinical and non-clinical adjacencies, massing, stacking and spatial planning
• Healthcare design review with architects, engineers, operational teams and clinical users

Not every commission will result in a capital solution. The role requires the ability to identify when service, workforce, digital or operational change may provide a better response than additional estate.

The global health team is comprised of a wide range of health-related professionals including healthcare planners, healthcare management consultants and digital healthcare specialists. This team works closely with other multidisciplinary teams across Mott MacDonald’s technical and engineering disciplines, as well as our Estates and Facilities and Sustainability teams.

Reporting to the Healthcare Planning Lead, the Senior Consultant will support the delivery of commissions and workstreams, ensuring delivery to agreed scope, quality, programme and budget, in line with client requirements and Mott MacDonald standards.

The role may suit candidates with experience in consultancy, the NHS or an international health system, health architecture, service transformation or another relevant healthcare environment.

The role may require some travelling in the UK and possibly internationally.

Key responsibilities and duties include:

• Develop future models of care spanning hospital, community, neighbourhood, home, virtual and hybrid delivery
• Assess how changes in medicine, technology, workforce, public expectations and care delivery may affect future activity, capacity and infrastructure requirements
• Undertake demand, capacity, utilisation and scenario modelling, with clear assumptions, limitations and audit trails
• Apply horizon scanning, international benchmarking and critical evidence appraisal to identify relevant good practice and emerging innovation
• Translate clinical and operational requirements, national policy, international best practice and research into service models, functional content, schedules of accommodation, adjacency and flow requirements and clinical briefs
• Review healthcare designs at 1:500, 1:200 and 1:50, working with clinicians, architects, engineers and operational teams to test function, flow, flexibility and deliverability
• Integrate digital, data, and smart-infrastructure principles from the outset of planning
• Use approved digital and AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve research, analysis, modelling, quality assurance and productivity, while retaining accountability for the accuracy and integrity of outputs
• Design and facilitate inclusive workshops, interviews and decision-making processes with clinical, operational, patient, community and executive stakeholders
• Develop options, recommendations and business-case inputs that balance quality, access, affordability, sustainability, risk and achievability
• Support operational readiness, transition planning, benefits realisation and post-implementation evaluation
• Produce concise, compelling and visually clear reports, presentations and decision-support material for different audiences
• Work with senior team members to lead defined commissions and workstreams, and manage delivery to agreed scope, quality, programme and budget

Candidate specification

The successful candidate must be able to possess and demonstrate the following skills and personal attributes:

• Degree/masters in a health-related subject or equivalent professional experience
• Experience in healthcare planning, clinical strategy, service transformation, health analytics, healthcare infrastructure or a closely related field
• Ability to work across different health-system, cultural, policy and regulatory contexts, adapting approaches rather than assuming that UK models are directly transferable
• Strong understanding of how population need, clinical pathways, workforce, operational processes, technology and the built environment interact
• Ability to analyse quantitative and qualitative evidence and turn it into clear, defensible recommendations
• Experience of demand, capacity, utilisation, pathway, process or scenario modelling
• Ability to challenge assumptions constructively and make clear, defensible recommendations where evidence is incomplete or stakeholders hold competing views
• Strong written, verbal and visual communication skills, including the ability to make complex or sensitive matters accessible to different audiences
• Experience of planning and facilitating effective stakeholder engagement
• Digital confidence, including the ability to work with data, analytical tools and AI-enabled productivity tools responsibly. Familiarity, or a willingness to learn one or more: Power BI, GIS, Python, R and/or simulation tools
• Commercial awareness, including understanding scope, budget, programme, risk and client value
• Track record of leading workstreams or smaller commissions
• Experience managing client relationships and providing advice to senior stakeholders
• Evidence of contributing to proposals, client development, thought leadership, or service innovation

UK Immigration

Mott MacDonald Ltd. are not currently offering sponsorship to candidates under the Skilled Worker visa route in the UK. This decision is as a consequence of the changes made to the Skilled Worker route by the UK Government in April 2024. We continue to welcome applications from candidates who are eligible for alternative immigration routes in the UK, that do not require sponsorship as a Skilled Worker now or in future.

Agile working

At Mott MacDonald, we believe it makes business sense for you and your manager to choose how you can work most effectively to meet your client, team, and personal commitments. We offer a hybrid working policy that embraces your well-being, flexibility, and trust.

Equality, diversity, and inclusion

We put equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of our business, seeking to promote fair employment procedures and practices to ensure equal opportunities for all. We encourage individual expression in our workplace and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels they can contribute.

AI Usage

At Mott MacDonald, we see the value AI can bring, but we take a people-first approach to hiring. While AI tools can help candidates prepare and build confidence, every application and hiring decision is reviewed by our recruitment and hiring teams. We encourage the responsible use of AI while ensuring we get to know the real person behind the application.

Accessibility

We want you to feel supported and able to perform at your best throughout our recruitment process. If there is anything we can do to make applying or interviewing with us more accessible, please contact us at reasonable.adjustments@mottmac.com and we'll be happy to discuss how we can help.

We offer some fantastic benefits including:

Financial wellbeing

• We match employee pension contributions between 4.5% and 7%.
• Life assurance equal up to 4 x your basic salary, with an option to increase the level of cover to 6 x your salary.
• Our income protection scheme provides a financial benefit, as well as absence and return to work support due to long-term illness or injury.
• Flexible benefits, including increased life assurance cover, critical illness insurance, payroll saving and will writing.
• As an independently owned business we share the financial success of the business with all our colleagues in various ways including annual bonus schemes.

Employee Ownership

• Our employee ownership model means no external investors, just us, creating a culture of shared success.
• Our employees have a stake and a voice in our business, giving them a direct connection to our success through our personal and group performance bonuses.
• As your career grows, so does your stake, recognising your long-term impact and contribution.
• Your voice matters, with the opportunity to connect directly with senior leadership through formal channels to help shape our future.
• For our senior roles you will have a direct pathway towards ownership from day one.

Health and wellbeing

• Private medical insurance for all UK colleagues.
• Health cash plan to support you with every day health costs and treatments.
• Access to Peppy, providing free support from menopause experts for all UK colleagues.
• A variety of wellbeing support is available through our comprehensive wellbeing program, including access for you and your family.
• Ability to flex your salary to opt into a wide range of health benefits, many of which can be extended to your family too.

Lifestyle

• A minimum of 33-35 days holiday each year, inclusive of public holidays and dependent on level, with the ability to buy or sell leave through our flexible benefits programme.
• 10 days additional paid leave for Armed Forces Reservists and Cadet Force Adult Volunteers.
• Holiday entitlement increased to a minimum of 35 days after 5 years’ service.
• Variety of employee saving schemes and discounts from high-street retailers.

Enhanced family and carers leave

• Enhanced family leave policies, including 26 weeks paid maternity and adoption leave, and two weeks paid paternity/partner leave.
• Our shared parental leave matches maternity leave meaning we pay up to 24 weeks at full pay.
• Up to five additional days leave are provided for those with significant caring responsibilities, two of which are paid.
• We offer policies and dedicated support to help military families balance service life with career and wellbeing.

Learning and development

• Primary annual professional institution subscription.
• A broad range of opportunities to enhance both technical and soft skills through mentoring, formal training, and self-development options.

Networks, communities, and social outcomes

• Join a wide range of groups including our Advanced Employee Networks which support our LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disability, and parents/carers communities.
• We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and Gold Award holders in the MOD Employer Recognition Scheme, supported by our dedicated internal Armed Forces Network.
• Make a difference within our communities through our social outcomes.

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