Head of Electrical Engineering

The New Hospital Programme is more than building hospitals, it’s a once in a generation opportunity to shape the future of healthcare in England. We’re delivering over 40 new hospitals that will be modern, sustainable and built around the needs of patients and staff. We’re looking for people who care about purpose, who thrive in complex environments and who want to help deliver change at scale for future generations.

The purpose of the role is to be the Head of Electrical Engineering for the New Hospital Programme, is to ensure that the Hospital 2.0 products and 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
  
  

NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.

Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.

In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultim

ately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department. 

If you currently work within the NHS and 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 process.

Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ryan Davin Job title: Senior Resourcing Business Partner Email address: ryan.davin@nhs.net