Business Manager - Corporate Affairs | Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England seeks an experienced administrator to manage the Corporate Affairs Team, ensuring effective operations of governance arrangements. This pivotal role supports the Board of Directors and requires strong leadership and organisation skills. The candidate will oversee document management, and lead team members, ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards in a challenging healthcare environment.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Supportive team environment

Qualifications

• Experience in corporate governance.
• Ability to manage a team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Corporate Affairs team.
• Manage meetings and governance arrangements.
• Compile annual reports and accounts.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Personal organisation skills

Job description

Overview

We are looking for an experienced administrator and corporate governance professional to lead our Corporate Affairs Team in supporting the work of the Board of Directors. This is a varied role interacting with key stakeholders, both internal and external to ensure that the Trust operates with integrity, transparency and accountability. The post holder will have the highest levels of personal organisation skills and be able to manage a fluid and responsive team workload that will align with legal requirements, ethical standards and strategic objectives. The post holder will provide a comprehensive meetings management service including the development of agendas, authoring and issuing of papers, management of meeting arrangements and minuting of meetings, tracking and following up on agreed actions. The post holder will manage the Corporate Affairs Team. The post holder will also be responsible for the management of arrangements related to the Board Development Programme. The post holder will lead on the arrangements for Board and committee effectiveness reviews ensuring outcomes are presented to the relevant sub-committees and Board. The post holder will lead a team of Corporate Affairs Officers who will provide a comprehensive support service to non-executive directors and governors. The post holder will undertake a range of duties on behalf of the Director of Corporate Affairs to ensure effective corporate governance arrangements are in place in respect of all relevant legally required registers. They will lead on the compilation of the Annual Reports and Accounts.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria. Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns. You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path. You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

• Support the effective organisation of the Board and Council of Governors and their respective assurance committees/groups
• Support the effective organisation of the Trust Management Board and Risk Management Group
• Ensure information regarding the Trust's governance arrangements and status is up to date and publicly available ensuring that it covers the requirements of the Trust's terms of licence/authorisation, the Code of Governance and National Oversight Framework
• Lead on the production and development of the Trust's annual report
• Develop and maintain departmental standards for the work of the team
• Supporting governors and members
• Assist and support the process of appraisal of the Chairman and non-executive directors using available systems
• Assist in the responsible national and local consultations, regulatory requests, freedom of information requests as they relate to corporate governance and/or the business of the board of directors
• Managing the Corporate Affairs team