# Business & Administration Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/business-and-administration-manager/f8d68565-c25b-456d-af0b-ef0a9f928313 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/business-and-administration-manager/f8d68565-c25b-456d-af0b-ef0a9f928313.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Oxford Health Site to be confirmed - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Administrative and IT - **Grade:** Band 6 - **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-06T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-21T10:31:14.117Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Oxfordshire/Oxford/Oxford_Health_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Administrative_Clerical/Administrative_Clerical-v8044051 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8044051?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Do you have demonstratable project & business management experience? We are seeking a highly organised and motivated Business & Administration Manager to join our Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Services. This is a key operational role responsible for leading and supporting administrative teams across services, ensuring high-quality, consistent and resilient administrative support that enables safe and effective patient care. Working closely with Service Managers, Team Managers and Clinical Leads, you will support service improvement, performance management and business functions across adult and older adult pathways contributing to the ongoing development and efficiency of services. You will need to have strong organisational, analytical and leadership skills and be a confident communicator. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong background in administration, business support or performance management, ideally within the NHS or public sector, who is passionate about improving services and supporting teams to deliver high standards of care. ### Main duties of the job In this role, you will: - Provide line management, supervision and support to administrative staff across Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Services - Ensure effective and consistent administrative processes are in place and aligned to Trust policies - Support the delivery of service improvement and transformation initiatives across pathways - Collect, analyse and present performance and operational data to support service delivery and decision-making - Ensure accurate recording of activity and support teams to maintain high data quality standards - Coordinate and support business and operational functions, including meetings, reporting and governance processes - Work collaboratively with clinical and operational colleagues to ensure administrative systems support patient pathways - Support workforce processes including recruitment, induction, training compliance and rota coordination ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities We hope that the advert has given you a clear understanding of the skills we are seeking and the opportunity at hand. You will need to use the “supporting statement” element of your application form to demonstrate your suitability for this role and you should refer to the job description, person specification and the guidance notes attached to this role to help you tailor your application. The essential and desirable criteria will be used to shortlist for interview, and you should ensure that you refer to these within your application to increase your chances of being selected for interview. ### Applicant requirements This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Knowledge **Essential** - Able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of operational business issues with the public sector - Knowledge and understanding of programme and project management structures - Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office applications ### Additional **Essential** - Ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of taking and transcribing formal minutes - Evidence of managing small/medium sized projects **Desirable** - Experience at managerial level within NHS or large public sector organisation ### Qualifications **Essential** - Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification **Desirable** - Project management qualification or extensive project experience ### Job related Aptitude and Skills **Essential** - Experience working under pressure with tight deadlines, excellent organisational and time management skills - Confident communication skills both within service and to partners - Able to work autonomously - Experience of handling confidential and sensitive issues appropriately ## Documents - [business and administration manager (pdf, 280.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10332730) - [guidance notes for candidates applying for a job at ohft (pdf, 424.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2228) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.