Business Manager (XN07)

Integrated Care System; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in Leeds is seeking a Business Manager for Clinical Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant services. The role involves supporting service delivery, managing resources, and improving patient care. Candidates must have strong leadership skills and experience in the NHS environment. The position is permanent and offers a unique opportunity to contribute to quality healthcare delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in middle management level.
• Knowledge of NHS operational processes and healthcare systems.
• Ability to manage multi-professional teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide business management support to the Clinical Service Unit.
• Manage staff and oversee budget responsibilities.
• Ensure access and performance targets are met.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Team leadership

Analytical skills

Education

Degree level or equivalent

Management qualification

Job description

Areyou looking for a new challenge? Look no further!

Wehave an exciting opportunity for a Business Manager to join the ClinicalHaematology and Bone Marrow Transplant services, on a permanent basis. TheClinical Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant services are part of OncologyCSU, one of the largest CSUs in the Trust. The Clinical Haematology and BoneMarrow Transplant services alone delivered 23,000 outpatient appointmentsfrom 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021.

Weare looking for an enthusiastic, patient-focused manager who will ensure thatwe continue to deliver a high quality, timely service to our patients. Thesuccessful candidate will need to be able to engage and collaborate with bothclinical and non-clinical colleagues, to develop services and meet the needsof our patients.

Youwill manage a busy and varied workload and must be flexible in dealing withand responding to problems. You must also have a good range of interpersonaland communication skills and have a proven track record in leading andmotivating staff in the delivery of quality patient care across complex,clinical, and business environments.

Operationalexperience and management experience is considered essential for this role,along with a firm understanding of access and performance targets for RTT andcancer pathways. You will lead on delivery against all key performance areasincluding access targets, finance and quality standards.

Main duties of the job

Providethe Haematology Department with Business Manager support .

Please see job description for further details.

About us

TheLeeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is part of the West Yorkshire Associationof Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts fromacross West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the bestpossible care for our patients.

By bringing together the wide range ofskills and expertise across West Yorkshire and Harrogate, we are workingdifferently, innovating and driving forward change to deliver the highestquality care. By working for LeedsTeaching Hospitals NHS Trust this is your opportunity to be a part of thatchange.

WYAAT is the acute sector arm of the WestYorkshire and Harrogate Health and Care Partnership, one of the largestintegrated care systems in the country. The Partnerships ambition is foreveryone to have the best possible health and wellbeing, and the work ofWYAAT, and each individual trust, supports that ambition.

LeedsTeaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job advertsare subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or removeadverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in theshortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while thisprocess is completed, and contact the named contact if you have anyquestions.

Job responsibilities

Thepost holder provides business management support to the Clinical Service Unit(CSU) or a component part of the CSU. The post holder will haveresponsibility for the access & performance agenda for both RTT andcancer access targets. They will ensure that the structure of administrativeand clerical staff co-ordinate successfully so that services are deliveredwithin budget to agreed quality standards and in accordance with agreedactivity levels.

Thepost holder will also work with members of their CSU and other seniormanagers in the strategic development of the services provided by the CSU.This will include strategic and operational business planning and monitoring,and the development of relationships with key internal and external partners.The post holder will ensure the CSU functions as an integral part of theLeeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and that CSU and Trust-wide objectives areachieved simultaneously.

Devolved responsibility for bothpay and non pay budgets in the CSU

Responsible for staff who may workTrust-wide across several disciplines and clinical specialties.

Assist in the performancemanagement of the CSU.

Line management of administrative,clerical and secretarial staff within the CSU, and take managementresponsibility for their personal development and performance review.

Responsible for the procurement ofmedical and scientific capital equipment

Assist in the operational aspectsof major service and capital planning

Contribute to developing andsustaining capacity and capability in the CSU

Lead specific project work onbehalf of the Deputy or General Manager

Person Specification

Experience

• Knowledge of the working of the NHS and wider healthcare system within England
• Understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda to include priorities from the Department of Health, Monitor, Healthcare Commission, National, Local and Trust Targets
• Knowledge and practical understanding of financial and commissioning frameworks
• Workforce and capacity planning, managing waiting lists and developing business cases.
• Knowledge and application of key policies and procedures to include access targets; Booking and Choice; Health and Safety; HR Guidance and toolkit; Attendance Management
• Experience of middle management level
• Specialist knowledge of managing multi-professional teams underpinned by formal management training.
• Successful operational management in a multi-professional environment
• Day-to-day people management and ability to develop others.
• Management of complex budgets/run rates.
• Operational planning and implementation including strategic planning and options appraisal and change management.
• Recruitment, selection, and retention of senior key personnel within the organisation; attendance management; appraisal and objective setting;
• disciplinary and grievance across multi-professional boundaries
• Demonstrates an understanding of both the NHS culture and of the cultures of the different health professional groups.
• Understanding and experience of effective information analysis, data interpretation and presentation, and software applications essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans
• Understanding of Trust Policy and Procedure, e.g. HR/Risk Management/Clinical Governance

Other Criteria

• Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification, have evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, including a management qualification or post graduate diploma.
• Career progression through continuing professional development. Willingness to undertake training and development as identified through the PDP process
• Masters level in a related field

Skills and behaviours

• Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy.
• Effective team leader and team player with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse and highly demanding organisation.
• Ability to work under significant and sustained pressure and to highly demanding and often conflicting timescales.
• Fair, honest and consistent in approach.
• Evidence of developing effective working relationships within and beyond employing organisation
• Ability to communicate and network effectively, negotiate and influence others taking into account the multi-professional and organisational cultures.
• Highly developed communication skills to enable the development of workforce and capacity planning and ensure that departmental business plans and continually changing service plans and schedules
• are updated to meet service needs
• Commitment to team working with the ability to take personal responsibility for difficult decision making.
• Awareness of strategic direction and ensure local business plans take account of the overall direction of the Trust.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.