Business Manager

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  Experience of middle management level

• Experience

  Evidence of successful operational management in a multi-professional environment

• Experience

  Experience of day-to-day people management and ability to develop others

• Experience

  Experience of budget planning and management

• Experience

  Operational planning and implementation

• Experience

  Demonstrates strong analytical skills, literacy and numeracy

• Experience

  Experience of strategic planning and options appraisal

• Experience

  Knowledge of financial and commissioning frameworks

• Experience

  Knowledge and experience of workforce and capacity planning, managing waiting lists, and delivering business plans

• Experience

  Experience in working in partnership with others to develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies, including managing change

• Core Knowledge

  Demonstrates an understanding of both the NHS culture and of the cultures of the different health professional groups

• Core Knowledge

  Sound understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda to include priorities from the Department of Health, Monitor, Healthcare Commission, National, Local and Trust Targets

• Core Knowledge

  Work within the Trust's Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions and Clinical Governance arrangements

• Core Knowledge

  Work within the Trust's Capital and Corporate Planning procedures

• Core Knowledge

  Understanding and experience of effective information analysis, data interpretation and presentation, and software applications essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans

• Core Knowledge

  Good sound knowledge and understanding of writing comprehensive business cases

• Core Knowledge

  Work within the Trust's HR guidance and toolkits for HR processes to include workforce planning, recruitment and selection, honorary contracts

• Core Knowledge

  Understanding of Trust Policy and Procedure, e.g. HR/Risk Management/Clinical Governance

• Core Knowledge

  Understanding of Commissioning, contracting and service agreements to include payment by results

• Core Knowledge

  Understanding of management and operational arrangements in the Trust

• Core Knowledge

  Knowledge of the working of the NHS and wider healthcare system within England

• Core Knowledge

  Understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda.

• Core Knowledge

  Knowledge and practical understanding of financial and commissioning frameworks

• Core Knowledge

  Workforce and capacity planning, managing waiting lists and developing business cases

• Core Knowledge

  Knowledge and application of key policies and procedures to include access targets; Booking and Choice; Health and Safety; HR Guidance and toolkit; Attendance Management

• Qualifications and Training

  Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, including a management qualification or post graduate diploma

• Qualifications and Training

  Management qualification or post graduate diploma.

• Qualifications and Training

  Masters level in a related field

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Ability to work under significant and sustained pressure and to highly demanding and often conflicting timescales.

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Ability to maintain systems for keeping abreast of changes in the NHS and their impact on the Directorate

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Commitment to team working with the ability to take personal responsibility for difficult decision making

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Ability to monitor, maintain and improve service delivery

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Awareness of strategic direction and ensure local business plans take account of the overall direction of the Trust

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Ability to communicate and network effectively, negotiate and influence others taking into account the multi-professional and organisational cultures

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Highly developed communication skills to enable the development of workforce and capacity planning and ensure that departmental business plans and continually changing service plans and schedules are updated to meet service needs

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Ability to produce a range of documents to varying audiences, both internal and external to the Trust some of which is of a confidential, sensitive or contentious nature

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Possess change management skills to include service reconfiguration

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Ability to establish processes and systems within the Directorate to develop and monitor financial and business plans across specialist services working collaboratively with other Directorates

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Negotiation and influencing skills and diplomacy

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Effective team leader and team player with the ability to work flexibly in a diverse and highly demanding organisation

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Working well under pressure of time and resources

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Fair, honest and consistent in approach

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Self-management, demonstrating resilience

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Ability to communicate in a complex service

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Evidence of developing effective working relationships within and beyond employing organisation

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Change management skills including service reconfiguration

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Analytical skills, literacy and numeracy. Ability to analyse data and formulate reports

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Able to communicate in a complex service

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Understanding and experience of information analysis essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Able to develop effective working partnership skills within and beyond employing organisation

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Able to deliver outcomes within a culture of ambiguity

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Presentation skills using a variety of options and software packages.

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Ability to manage teams based on different sites across the organisation

• Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section)

  Manage clinical and business risks developing action plans to improve performance.