Business Manager (XN07)
Job Description
Job summary
Expected Shortlisting Date:
21/01/2025
Planned Interview Date:
03/02/2025
We are looking for an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual with Business Management experience to join our team within the Department of Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering (MPCE). This is an exciting opportunity for someone to broaden their experience working in one of the biggest MPCE Departments in the UK.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide management support to the Medical Physics & Clinical Engineering Department. They will have responsibility for the performance of administrative and clerical staff and will ensure that services are delivered within budget to agreed quality standards and in accordance with agreed activity levels.
The post holder will also work with members of their CSU and other senior managers 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 the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and that CSU and Trust-wide objectives are achieved simultaneously.
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest teaching hospitals in Europe, a regional and national centre for specialist treatment, a renowned biomedical research facility.
MPCE supports the established range of applications of physics and engineering in medicine, and seeks to be actively involved in the development, assessment, implementation and audit of new and existing health care technologies and procedures.
The business management and administration section is led by a professional service manager. The scientific and technical sections within the Department are: Radiotherapy Physics, Radionuclide & MRI Physics, Clinical Engineering, Radiological Physics and Clinical and Scientific Computing. Overall the Department has approximately 350 staff.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job responsibilities
Devolved responsibility for both pay and non pay budgets in the CSU
Responsible for staff who may work Trust-wide across several disciplines and clinical specialties
Assist in the performance management of the CSU
Line manage administrative, clerical and secretarial staff within the CSU, and take management responsibility for their personal development and performance review
Responsible for the procurement of medical and scientific capital equipment
Assist in the operational aspects of major service and capital planning
Contribute to developing and sustaining capacity and capability in the CSU
Lead specific project work on behalf of the Service Manager
Deputise for the Service Manager, as directed
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Knowledge of the working of the NHS and wider healthcare system within England
- 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 including appraisal and objective setting, recruitment and retention
- Management of complex budget
- Operational planning and implementation including strategic planning and options appraisal, and change management
- Recruitment, selection/retention of senior key personnel within the organisation; attendance management; appraisal & objective setting; disciplinary & grievance across multi-professional boundaries.
Desirable
- NHS management experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- Management qualification or post graduate diploma.
- Career progression through continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Masters level in a related field
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Change management skills including service reconfiguration
- Analytical skills, literacy and numeracy. Ability to analyse data and formulate reports
- Able to communicate in a complex service
- Understanding and experience of information analysis essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans
- Able to develop effective working partnership skills within and beyond employing organisation
- Able to deliver outcomes within a culture of ambiguity
- Presentation skills using a variety of options and software packages.
- Ability to manage teams based on different sites across the organisation
- Manage clinical and business risks developing action plans to improve performance.
- 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.
- Working well under pressure of time and resources.
- Fair, honest and consistent in approach.
- Self-management, demonstrating resilience.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
