Head of Environmental Sustainability

We are seeking an experienced Head of Environmental Sustainability to lead the delivery and embedding of environmental sustainability across the New Hospital Programme. Reporting to the Director of Sustainability, you will play a key leadership role in implementing the programme's Social, Economic and Environmental (SEE) Delivery Strategy, ensuring environmental objectives are embedded across the design, planning, procurement, construction and operational delivery of hospital schemes. Working across a complex national programme, you will drive the delivery of environmental initiatives, support the development of sustainability strategies, and ensure consistent measurement, monitoring and reporting of environmental outcomes. You will work closely with stakeholders and delivery partners to ensure environmental requirements are effectively incorporated into Hospital 2.0 products, spaces and scheme delivery.

• Significant experience in environmental sustainability, net zero, or environmental programme delivery.
• Strong knowledge of sustainability frameworks, policies and reporting requirements.
• Experience developing and implementing environmental strategies within large, complex programmes.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
• A track record of driving measurable environmental improvements and continuous improvement initiatives.
  
  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., 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, ultimately 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.