# Clinical Business Manager - Medicine > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-business-manager-medicine/0eb46f16-c11e-44ce-84ab-d62b9d07996b - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-business-manager-medicine/0eb46f16-c11e-44ce-84ab-d62b9d07996b.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Preston Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Business manager - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £79,504 - £91,609 per annum, pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-09-11T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-09-02T12:23:53.588Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Lancashire/Preston/Lancashire_Teaching_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Medicine/Medicine-v8152796 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8152796?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.lancsteachinghospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The Clinical Business Manager (CBM) for the Division of Medicine will provide dynamic and visible operational leadership across a complex portfolio of services, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, patient-centred care. The post holder will work in partnership with clinical, nursing and corporate colleagues to lead service performance, operational delivery and strategic transformation programmes, with a particular focus on Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) pathways and improving patient flow across the health system. ### Main duties of the job The CBM will have responsibility for driving performance against key operational and constitutional standards, including 4-hour Emergency Department performance, reduction in 12-hour waits, elective and non-elective recovery targets, and delivery of agreed quality, workforce and financial objectives. They will provide strong leadership to multidisciplinary teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement and excellence in patient care. The successful candidate will be a highly motivated, resilient and forward-thinking leader with a strong understanding of UEC systems, acute hospital operations and service transformation. They will play a pivotal role in leading and implementing changes to the Acute Medicine model, identifying opportunities for innovation and improvement, and ensuring services are responsive to the changing needs of patients and the organisation. As a key member of the divisional leadership team, the post holder will demonstrate excellent stakeholder management skills, the ability to influence across organisational boundaries, and a commitment to delivering sustainable improvements that enhance patient outcomes, staff experience and operational performance. They will champion a patient-centred approach in all aspects of service delivery, ensuring that quality, safety and experience remain at the heart of decision-making ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see attached Job description for details - To lead and manage the clinical business units ensuring the best use of available resources to provide efficient and effective delivery of all services in line with best practice and quality standards - To support the development of the Divisional and Trust strategy through understanding the strategic contribution of the services delivered by the clinical business units. - To develop a culture within the clinical business units that encourages the use of initiative, individual and team responsibility and open communications. - To effectively manage the clinical business units staff - To effectively manage the clinical business units budget and finance - To lead the clinical business units governance arrangements - To manage self and workload in a way that ensures the continued support of others ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Education to Masters/Fellowship level or equivalent - Appropriate professional management qualification - Participation in continuing professional development to improve and update specialist knowledge **Desirable** - Diploma in NHS Management or equivalent ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Demonstrable experience of senior operational management in NHS - Detailed understanding and experience of the operation of acute hospital services - Proven ability to manage change, service activity and development within a large and complex organisation - Experience of managing a large budget. - Detailed knowledge of Clinical Governance and risk management - Comprehensive understanding and application of Department of Health policy **Desirable** - Experience in a tertiary surgical service ## Documents - [what we can offer you (pdf, 6.7mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2464) - [creating your best application (pdf, 6.1mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2433) - [clinical business manager - medicine (pdf, 520.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10452677) ## 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.