New Hospital Programme Fixtures, Fitting and Equipment (FF&E) Lead
Ascot, England, United Kingdom Contract Posted 3 days ago
Job Overview
Be part of something extraordinary
Frimley Park Hospital is being reimagined as part of one of the UK’s most ambitious healthcare projects. This isn’t just a rebuild — it’s a revolution in care, sustainability, and innovation.
We’re creating a digitally enabled, future-proof hospital that puts patients and staff first, with cutting-edge facilities, green spaces, and flexible design.
This role provides strategic and operational leadership for all FF&E and medical equipment activities across The New Frimley Park Hospital, The retained estate and Heatherwood Hospital extension.
The post holder will develop and implement the Trust’s equipment strategy, ensuring effective planning, design integration, procurement, installation, commissioning, and lifecycle management. They will work autonomously, interfacing across clinical, operational, estates, digital, and construction teams.
Join us and help shape the future of healthcare. Leave a legacy that lasts.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead the strategic planning, governance and delivery of all FF&E and medical equipment activity. They will ensure equipment requirements are identified, specified, procured, installed and commissioned in line with clinical, operational, digital and construction needs.
This role includes developing the Trust’s FF&E and medical equipment strategy, establishing governance and assurance arrangements, and working closely with clinical, estates, digital, operational and construction teams to ensure equipment is fully integrated into design and build plans.
The post holder will also oversee procurement planning, stakeholder engagement, technical coordination, installation, operational readiness and lifecycle management, ensuring compliance with safety, regulatory, financial and programme requirements throughout.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
Be part of something extraordinary
Frimley Park Hospital is being reimagined as part of one of the UK’s most ambitious healthcare projects. This isn’t just a rebuild — it’s a revolution in care, sustainability, and innovation.
We’re creating a digitally enabled, future-proof hospital that puts patients and staff first, with cutting-edge facilities, green spaces, and flexible design.
This role provides strategic and operational leadership for all FF&E and medical equipment activities across The New Frimley Park Hospital, The retained estate and Heatherwood Hospital extension.
The post holder will develop and implement the Trust’s equipment strategy, ensuring effective planning, design integration, procurement, installation, commissioning, and lifecycle management. They will work autonomously, interfacing across clinical, operational, estates, digital, and construction teams.
Join us and help shape the future of healthcare. Leave a legacy that lasts.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will lead the strategic planning, governance and delivery of all FF&E and medical equipment activity. They will ensure equipment requirements are identified, specified, procured, installed and commissioned in line with clinical, operational, digital and construction needs.
This role includes developing the Trust’s FF&E and medical equipment strategy, establishing governance and assurance arrangements, and working closely with clinical, estates, digital, operational and construction teams to ensure equipment is fully integrated into design and build plans.
The post holder will also oversee procurement planning, stakeholder engagement, technical coordination, installation, operational readiness and lifecycle management, ensuring compliance with safety, regulatory, financial and programme requirements throughout.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master’s degree or equivalent level qualification in a relevant technical / clinical discipline, or demonstration of experience / relevant transferable knowledge from previous roles.
- Evidence of continuing professional and personal development (e.g. training, study, additional courses).
- HCPC Clinical Scientist or Chartered Engineer (CEng).
- Membership of professional bodies (IHEEM, IPEM, IEEE).
Essential criteria
- Proven experience leading complex projects of significant scale.
- Significant experience delivering major capital, construction or healthcare transformation programmes.
- Experience with BIM and information management standards
- Experience in equipment planning, procurement, lifecycle management and operational readiness.
- Experience of working in an NHS project management environment
- Experience of working construction schemes.
- Experience delivering equipping solutions for new hospital builds.
Essential criteria
- Strong knowledge of FF&E and medical equipment standards, including HTMs, ISO standards, MHRA guidance and NHS requirements.
- Strong knowledge of the FF&E & medical equipment industry, project delivery and management, and procurement.
- Understanding of procurement frameworks, supply chains, and relevant standards.
- Knowledge of and ability to implement an effective governance infrastructure.
- Understanding of procurement processes, frameworks, and supply chain.
- Understanding and application of appropriate national and international standards related to information management and BIM.
- Understanding of NHS business case processes and RIBA stages
- Excellent communication, engagement and influencing skills.
- Ability to synthesise and present complex information to diverse audiences
- High level analytical, judgement and problem solving skills.
- Strong organisational and programme management capabilities.
- Knowledge of digital interoperability, clinical workflows, and technical integration.
- Ability to challenge constructively and manage competing priorities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
