CBU Manager - Urgent and Emergency Care

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust; Warrington; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a CBU Manager for Urgent and Emergency Care in Warrington. This Band 8c permanent role involves leading the Clinical Business Unit within the Trust, reporting to Associate Director of Unplanned Care, and operating on a tactical on-call rota as part of senior leadership.

The post requires an experienced leader with strong communication, change management and governance skills, delivering clinical operational strategy, working with

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience.
• Recent operational experience at a senior level.
• Strong communication, negotiation and coaching skills.
• Knowledge of financial and workforce information systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of strategic operational plans for the CBU, aligning with Trust objectives and governance requirements.
• Act as a senior leader within the care group, ensuring performance managed delivery of services.
• Coordinate with external bodies such as commissioners on contracts and pathways.
• Provide coaching and leadership to clinical, staff and stakeholder teams to support decision making.

Skills

Communication skills

Negotiation

Coaching

Interpersonal skills

Change management

Education

Degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Financial management systems

Budgetary management

Workforce information systems

Job description

Main area Urgent and Emergency Care Grade NHS AfC: Band 8c Contract Permanent: Part of tactical on call rota Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Partake in tactical on call rota) Job ref 370-ADM8cUCM-2671

Employer North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Warrington Salary £79,504 - £91,609 per annum plus 2% for on call Salary period Yearly Closing 04/11/2026 23:59

CBU Manager - Urgent and Emergency Care

NHS AfC: Band 8c

Job overview

An experienced, motivated and independently minded leader who is able to act on their own initiative, achieving outstanding performance as a role model of the trusts values and behaviours. With a ‘can do’ leadership style the CBU Manager will thrive within a climate of constant change managing the strategic direction and performance of a Clinical Business Unit within the Trust.

R eporting to the Associate Director of Unplanned Care, the post holder is expected to function at a senior level within the CBU senior leadership team, proactively leading and providing solutions to resolve complex operational issues, in accordance with agreed Trust objectives, targets, quality standards and resource constraints. The CBU Manager will have managerial experience in leading teams, and will possess leadership skills to deal competently with complex issues in ensuring that policy is implemented and performance managed within the CBU.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with the Clinical Director and Lead nurse, the CBU Manager will lead the implementation of patient centred clinical operational strategy and plans, ensuring that systems and processes are in place to comply with relevant legislation and governance requirements, linking with external bodies such as commissioners about service developments, contracts and clinical care pathways whilst utilising the expertise and skills of the wider operation CBU teams.

As a member of the CBU senior leadership team and Care Group management structure, the CBU Manager contributes to strategic direction and policy setting, forming an essential communications link between the CBU and relevant external organisations, demonstrating a coaching style of leadership in ensuring that clinical, staff and stakeholder engagement is reflected in the decision making process.

Working for our organisation

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

We employ nearly 5,000 people from over 80 nationalities, striving to be a diverse, inclusive employer and recognised leader in equality. We support flexible working, welcoming flexible applications. Proud of our many accreditations, we are embedding an anti-racist approach in all we do.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a member of the CBU senior leadership team and care group management structure, the CBU Manager contributes to strategic direction and policy setting for the care group, forming an essential communications link between the care group, CBU and relevant external organisations, demonstrating a coaching style of leadership in ensuring that clinical, staff and stakeholder engagement is reflected in the decision making

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Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent experience

Experience

• Recent operational experience at a senior level

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

• Key issues and pace of change facing the NHS nationally and locally, assess and describe impact on services.
• A high level of communication skills, to include but not exclusively, mediation, negotiation, consultation, facilitation, presentation, training and coaching skills using well developed interpersonal skills to influence, inform, reconcile differences and resolve conflicts.
• Knowledge and understanding of computerised financial, management, budgetary management and workforce information systems

Further Information

NCM hold a Sponsor Licence; this means that we may be able to sponsor you providing the Home Office requirements are met. To be eligible for sponsorship, there is a minimum set of criteria that must be met and not all roles are eligible. You can find more information on the Government website

Please review your eligibility and the eligibility of the role before submitting your application.

All advertised roles may close early if there are high numbers of suitable candidates.

Pre‑employment checks for applicants with previous NHS service will include confirmation of any Mutually Agreed Resignation Scheme (MARS), Voluntary Redundancy or Compulsory Redundancy payments received.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.