# Business Manager > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/business-manager/6f7ea439-e452-4ce9-9ec1-b25e71549b37 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/business-manager/6f7ea439-e452-4ce9-9ec1-b25e71549b37.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust - **Location:** Leeds General Infirmary - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Business manager - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £49387.00 to £56515.00 - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full-time - **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-20T10:07:56.708Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9298-26-1155 - **Application URL:** https://vacancies.leedsteachinghospitals.jobs/Job/JobDetail?jobid=2407&source=JobtrainNHSJobs - **Employer website:** https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job summary An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen to join the Trauma and Related Services Clinical Service Unit (CSU). We are looking for a focused and highly motivated individual to join the management team in the role of Business Manager within the Vascular Surgery Service. ### Main duties of the job The post holder will be required to develop professional relationships with a wide range of key stakeholders in order to support the business functions of the CSU. The ideal candidate will have business acumen, extensive leadership knowledge with additional experience of working in an operational management environment. ### About us The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do. ### Details - Date posted: 20 October 2026 - Pay scheme: Agenda for change - Band: Band 7 - Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year - Contract: Permanent - Working pattern: Full-time - Reference number: 002405 - Job locations: Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 3EX, United Kingdom ### Job responsibilities For questions about this job, contact: Name: Molly Gascoyne Position: Service Manager Email: m.gascoyne@nhs.net Name: Lee Parker Position: General Manager Email: lee.parker3@nhs.net Interview Date: 11th November 2026 Please Note: All salaries listed reflect the pay for full time roles. Any part time roles will be pro rata. Job Summary The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate: - Strong commercial and operational management acumen with a proven track record of achievement and delivery - The ability to utilise and interpret information to achieve best results. - Capability to work effectively under pressure and manage competing demands on workload. - Maintenance of professional integrity at all times Why you should join our Team This post is pivotal in providing key operational and business management support to ensure the delivery of high quality and safe patient care. The post holder will join an established and supportive management team in the CSU. The post holder will be required to manage the day to day operational aspects of service delivery, with a focus on achieving and monitoring access delivery performance in line with LTHT Trust policies, maintaining fiscal balance, service improvement and supporting and leading a motivated team to develop and deliver on agreed business plans. What you will bring to the role Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy. About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust Our Trust values The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients. We are. Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind Our Trust priorities Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time Our priorities: People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes Sponsorship Eligibility To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here. We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Experience of middle management level - Evidence of successful operational management in a multi-professional environment - Experience of day-to-day people management and ability to develop others - Experience of budget planning and management - Operational planning and implementation - Demonstrates strong analytical skills, literacy and numeracy - Experience of strategic planning and options appraisal - Knowledge of financial and commissioning frameworks - Knowledge and experience of workforce and capacity planning, managing waiting lists, and delivering business plans - Experience in working in partnership with others to develop, implement and evaluate policies and strategies, including managing change ### Core Knowledge **Essential** - Demonstrates an understanding of both the NHS culture and of the cultures of the different health professional groups - Sound understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda to include priorities from the Department of Health, Monitor, Healthcare Commission, National, Local and Trust Targets - Work within the Trust's Standing Orders and Standing Financial Instructions and Clinical Governance arrangements - Work within the Trust's Capital and Corporate Planning procedures - Understanding and experience of effective information analysis, data interpretation and presentation, and software applications essential for communicating business, finance and workforce plans - Good sound knowledge and understanding of writing comprehensive business cases - Work within the Trust's HR guidance and toolkits for HR processes to include workforce planning, recruitment and selection, honorary contracts - Understanding of Trust Policy and Procedure, e.g. HR/Risk Management/Clinical Governance - Understanding of Commissioning, contracting and service agreements to include payment by results - Understanding of management and operational arrangements in the Trust - Knowledge of the working of the NHS and wider healthcare system within England - Understanding of the NHS modernisation agenda. - Knowledge and practical understanding of financial and commissioning frameworks - 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 ### Qualifications and Training **Essential** - Evidence of commitment to continuing professional development, including a management qualification or post graduate diploma - Management qualification or post graduate diploma. - Masters level in a related field ### Skills, Abilities and Personal Qualities (unlabelled section) **Essential** - Ability to work under significant and sustained pressure and to highly demanding and often conflicting timescales. - Ability to maintain systems for keeping abreast of changes in the NHS and their impact on the Directorate - Commitment to team working with the ability to take personal responsibility for difficult decision making - Ability to monitor, maintain and improve service delivery - Awareness of strategic direction and ensure local business plans take account of the overall direction of the Trust - Ability to communicate and network effectively, negotiate and influence others taking into account the multi-professional and organisational cultures - 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 - 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 - Possess change management skills to include service reconfiguration - 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 - 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 - Ability to communicate in a complex service - Evidence of developing effective working relationships within and beyond employing organisation - 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. ## Documents - [Job Description/Person Spec (DOC, KB)](https://vacancies.leedsteachinghospitals.jobs/Job/GetJobAdvertDocument?Id=4572&JobId=2407) ## 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.