Directorate Business Manager

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description for a full outline of responsibilities related to the role and the service function.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to Degree Level, or possessing equivalent knowledge, training and experience, including health service management, change management.
• Evidence of continuing personal development.

Desirable criteria

• Project management or Improvement qualification or equivalent.
• Postgraduate healthcare leadership qualification.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Management and leadership experience of an administrative function or team, especially in busy and pressurised environments.
• Experience of managing formal and informal HR processes.
• Advanced experience of providing a comprehensive administration service to senior level leadership teams at Band 6 for at least two years in the NHS or equivalent in other sectors.
• Substantial experience of writing high level papers and presentations that communicate complex and difficult issues in a simple and understandable manner.
• Experience of gathering and analysing data, identifying themes and distilling information, writing briefings and making appropriate recommendations.
• Experience of handling highly confidential and sensitive information.
• Experience of working in a complex, busy and pressurised environment with competing priorities.
• Experience of introducing improvement and/or change to a working environment, often where there are more than one with competing priorities.
• Ability to follow Standard Financial Instructions on behalf of senior leadership.
• Advanced knowledge and understanding of Microsoft Office packages e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
• Knowledge of administrative procedures and information analysis.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working in the wider public sector.
• NHS administrative experience.
• Knowledge of the NHS and its structures, current agenda and challenges.
• Understanding of health and social care sector, including working knowledge of NHS structures, policies and processes.
• Knowledge of Caldicott and information governance.

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate and work effectively with a wide range of people from different backgrounds at all levels of seniority.
• Negotiating, networking and persuasive skills.
• Enthusiastic and self-motivated with a friendly manner.
• Compassionate and caring.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to apply sound judgement and logical approach to identify key or underlying issues in complex situations, being objective and innovative and using initiative to resolve problems.
• Good numerical skills.
• Planning and problem-solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
• Ability to pull together comprehensive draft reports, data and letters.

Planning and Organisation Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to prioritise, multi-task and respond quickly to changing priorities, reorganising own and others workload to meet deadlines.
• Ability to work on own initiative and organise own workload with minimal supervision working to tight and often changing timescales, with conflicting priorities.
• Ability to cope with pressure during busy periods and act in a professional manner at all times.

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria

• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's "We are here for you" behavioural standards.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

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.

Documents to download

• DBM Job Description (PDF, 848.3KB)
• DBM Person Specification (PDF, 480.3KB)
• Mindful Employer (PDF, 242.5KB)
• Equality and Diversity (PDF, 122.3KB)
• Equal Opportunities (PDF, 57.4KB)
• Disability Confidence Scheme (PDF, 51.0KB)
• Rehabilitation of Ex Offenders (PDF, 106.0KB)
• Application Process Booklet (PDF, 24.8MB)