# County Business Manager - Gloucestershire

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Trust HQ
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Business manager
- **Grade:** Band 5
- **Salary:** £31,049 - £37,796 Per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-23T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-09-10T07:50:56.561Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Devon/Gloucester/South_Western_Ambulance_Service_NHS_Foundation_Trust/NA/NA-v8220235
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8220235?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.swast.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

This is a key role within the operations structure reporting directly to the Assistant Director of Operations and managing the 'Administration line' for the Gloucestershire County.

The County Business Manager provides leadership to administrative staff, provide direct support to senior operational staff and provide a primary point of contact for staff working in other Directorates. The County Business Manager will act as the link between administrative functions at a County level and Trust HQ.

### Main duties of the job

- Provide line management, direction, welfare and support. This includes undertaking career conversations, supporting staff health and wellbeing and all aspects of line management
- Provide administrative expertise and guidance to the senior managers. This includes assisting in workload planning, helping to forecast forwards and assisting the Operations Officers in their day to day management role (particularly when they are acting as Lead Operations Officers in the County Hub/Office)
- Coordinate the completion of patient experience investigations and feedback as required. Provides the Head of Operations with incident reporting assurance reports. Oversee the administrative support provided to investigations and complaints.
- Lead on monitoring, reporting and where required, the chasing of outstanding career conversations. A key role will be in monitoring the booked appraisals to make sure that the County is ‘on the front foot’. This post is also responsible for working closely with colleagues in HR to maintain an accurate database for reporting purposes.

NHS employees should ideally secure their manager’s agreement for a secondment arrangement prior to applying.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role please see the attached job description and person specification.

Right to work / Certificate of sponsorship

This role does not meet the criteria for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship under current Home Office regulations. You must have the existing right to work in the UK to be considered for this position.

For further information on visa sponsorship and eligibility, please refer to the UK Government guidance on Skilled Worker visas: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa

### 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

### Education and qualifications

**Essential**

- Educated to degree level, or has demonstrable administrative experience
- 5 GCSEs (Grade C or above) or equivalent including English

### Previous experience (Paid/ Unpaid relevant to job)

**Essential**

- Experience of line managing staff
- Experience of gathering, analysing and reporting on a range of data and information

**Desirable**

- NHS experience
- Previous PA experience

## Documents

- [swast code of conduct (pdf, 1.3mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2579)
- [county business manager - b5 (pdf, 276.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10528740)

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