Specialty Business Manager - Surgery

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; Vor Ort; GBP 65.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Preston is seeking a Specialty Business Manager to lead patient pathways across the SBUs, ensuring services are patient-centered and delivered to high standards.

You will provide strong leadership to performance and capacity teams, collaborate with Clinical Directors and Matrons, and drive continuous improvement and operational excellence across a large acute provider.

Qualifikationen

• Experience in hospital operations and patient pathways management is essential.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills to work with clinical leaders.
• Track record of improving performance, capacity planning and service delivery.

Aufgaben

• Lead and manage patient pathways within SBUs, ensuring resources are used efficiently to meet quality and performance targets.
• Provide leadership to performance and capacity teams and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with Clinical Directors and Matrons to deliver high-quality patient care.
• Foster autonomous, engaged teams and support workforce development to deliver compassionate care.
• Oversee a multidisciplinary team including a Specialty Business Manager, Senior Performance Manager, and coordinators.

Jobbeschreibung

This is a fantastic opportunity to work with a range of exciting and progressive clinical services in a large, acute provider. The H&N Specialty Business Unit is comprised of ENT, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Special Care & Paediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics and Restorative Dentistry. The service also hosts a regional H&N surgical cancer centre and sits alongside the Rosemere Cancer Centre delivering radiotherapy to the population of Lancashire & South Cumbria.

As the Specialty Business Manager, you will take ownership of the patient pathways within the Specialty units, ensuring that all operational performance targets are closely monitored, tracked, and consistently achieved. In this pivotal role, you will provide strong leadership and effective management to both the performance and capacity teams, driving continuous improvement and operational excellence.

You will work in alignment with the Trust’s corporate objectives, playing an active part in shaping and delivering high-quality health services that meet the needs of patients and the community.

Living the Trust’s values will be at the heart of your role. You will lead by example, fostering a culture where autonomous teams and individuals are empowered, engaged, and motivated. Through your guidance and support, you will help build a committed workforce dedicated to delivering outstanding care with compassion and integrity every day.

Your role is to lead and manage the patient pathways within the Specialty Business Units (SBUs), ensuring that available resources are utilised effectively and efficiently to deliver services that meet the highest standards of quality, best practice, and performance targets.

You will oversee a dedicated and diverse team comprising a Specialty Business Manager, a Senior Performance Manager, three Clinical Support Managers, a rota coordinator, two patient pathway coordinators, MDT coordinators, medical secretaries, and administrative assistants. Collaboration is key — from a clinical standpoint, you will work closely and seamlessly with the Clinical Directors and Matrons of each speciality to drive continuous improvement and deliver exceptional patient care.

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 and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.