Strategic Business Manager

Violet Lane Medical Practice

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Job summary

Violet Lane Medical Practice

231 Violet Lane Croydon CR0 4HN

(Strategic) Business Manager

Working hours: Full time

Salary: Highly competitive

Due to retirement, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an accomplished, positive and highly motivated individual to join our journey by managing and leading our practice.

This has potential to be a genuinely transformational leadership role. The successful candidate will take responsibility for organisational leadership, quality improvement and delivery of key targets across clinical and administrative areas within the practice whilst also overseeing finance management and HR. There is scope to personalise the role and the supporting management structure.

Salary is dependent on experience; this is a full-time role however we are open to flexible working patterns. Additionally, you will enjoy 6 weeks annual leave per year, statutory bank holidays and access to NHS pension.

Our CQC Rating: Good

Main duties of the job

The role encompasses all aspects of managing the organisation including assisting with strategic planning, managing income and expenditure, all aspects of human resource management, health and safety management, and governance as well as providing a high-quality service to our patient population while balancing the wellbeing and retention of our staff. The full list of day to day duties can be found in the accompanying detailed job role document. This should be read in consideration of the development of a support role to the business manager. We do not expect one individual to deliver effectively at business management and operational level.

About us

An organised and well-established practice at the heartland of its community in South Croydon, Violet Lane Medical Practice has been a mainstay with a stable patient list size of 11,000. With the addition of two motivated GP partners earlier this year alongside our experienced partner of 25 years, this forward-thinking practice is looking to develop and innovate to ensure high quality patient care is maintained and health inequalities are tackled. Having recently registered as a training practice we now consist of 3 partners and 4 salaried GPs in addition to 2 nurses, GP trainees, medical students and ARRS staff. Staff are hard-working whilst also maintaining a positive and supportive environment to work within our modern premises. Our recent staff survey show that our staff would recommend working here.

Date posted

24 October 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Highly competitive

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A5709-23-0000

Job locations

Violet Lane Medical Practice

231 Violet Lane

Croydon

CR0 4HN


Job description

Job responsibilities

Violet Lane Medical Practice

(Strategic) Business Manager - Job Description

An Exciting Opportunity

Due to retirement, an exciting full time opportunity has arisen for an accomplished, positive and highly motivated individual to join our journey by managing and leading our practice. This has potential to be a genuinely transformational leadership role. The successful candidate will take responsibility for organisational leadership, people management, quality improvement, financial management and the delivery of key targets across clinical and administrative areas within the practice. Alongside this role, we will be seeking to recruit to a support role position to work alongside the Business Manager. We would very much like to develop this role alongside the successful Business Manager candidate to ensure the best mix and fit of skills to complement the practice and our strategic development and operational running. A truly unique opportunity we envisage appealing to a motivated and determined individual.

About Us

An organised and well-established practice at the heartland of its community in South Croydon, Violet Lane Medical Practice has been a mainstay with a stable patient list size of 11,000. With the addition of two motivated GP partners earlier this year alongside our experienced partner of 25 years, we are a forward-thinking practice that is looking to develop and innovate to ensure high quality patient care is maintained and health inequalities are tackled. Having recently registered as a training practice we now consist of 3 partners and 4 salaried GPs in addition to 2 nurses, GP trainees, medical students and ARRS staff. Our staff are hard-working whilst also maintaining a positive and supportive environment to work within our modern premises. Our recent staff survey proudly shows that our staff would recommend working here.

Main Duties

The role encompasses all aspects of managing the organisation including assisting with strategic planning, managing income and expenditure, all aspects of human resource management, health and safety management, and governance as well as providing a high-quality service to our patient population while balancing the wellbeing and retention of our staff. The full list of day to day duties can be found in the accompanying detailed job role document. This should be read in consideration of the development of a support role to the business manager. We do not expect one individual to deliver effectively at business management and operational level.

About You

We are seeking to find an exceptional candidate who has the drive and motivation to continue to take our practice forwards with development, growth and sustainability for the future. Our essential skills, knowledge and experience are listed below.

  • A solutions focused approach.
  • Highly knowledgeable of primary care as a proven service leader.
  • Educated to degree level or higher ideally within management and leadership.
  • Excellent communication (oral and written) and inter-personal skills.
  • Leadership skills, including excellent people management skills.
  • Motivated to achieve success across all areas of business management and high quality care provision.
  • Able to balance the demands of service delivery and the wellbeing of staff.
  • Ability to listen and empathise while remaining realistic about responding to demand.
  • Delegation and empowerment of staff.
  • Excellent IT skills.
  • High level, yet audience sensitive negotiating skills.
  • Conflict management.
  • Able to manage change and cope with pressure.
  • Networking, facilitation and coaching.
  • Enthusiastic, with energy and drive.
  • Gains respect by example and leadership.
  • Trustworthy, honest, reliable, caring and sympathetic.
  • Strategic thinking with vision.
  • Good sense of humour, personable and friendly.
  • Self-motivating and confident to work with minimal direction.
  • Adaptable and innovative.
  • Hard working, reliable and resourceful.
  • Willing to work flexible hours as sometimes necessary.
  • Considered, steady approach.
  • Diplomacy.

Why Join Violet Lane?

A few other things that might help you consider applying to join us:

  • We are a rather nice bunch of people, and our staff enjoy working with us.
  • We are committed to continual improvement, we dont do sitting on our laurels.
  • We can offer a highly competitive and rewarding salary to the successful applicant.
  • We love holidays - we will give you 6 weeks leave plus bank holidays too.
  • NHS pension (if you so wish).
  • A modern building in the heart of our local community
  • Cake, there is often cake.
  • Supportive and highly motivated partners with a true willingness to engage and develop alongside an experienced and motivated business manager, together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Violet Lane Medical Practice

(Strategic) Business Manager - Job Description

An Exciting Opportunity

Due to retirement, an exciting full time opportunity has arisen for an accomplished, positive and highly motivated individual to join our journey by managing and leading our practice. This has potential to be a genuinely transformational leadership role. The successful candidate will take responsibility for organisational leadership, people management, quality improvement, financial management and the delivery of key targets across clinical and administrative areas within the practice. Alongside this role, we will be seeking to recruit to a support role position to work alongside the Business Manager. We would very much like to develop this role alongside the successful Business Manager candidate to ensure the best mix and fit of skills to complement the practice and our strategic development and operational running. A truly unique opportunity we envisage appealing to a motivated and determined individual.

About Us

An organised and well-established practice at the heartland of its community in South Croydon, Violet Lane Medical Practice has been a mainstay with a stable patient list size of 11,000. With the addition of two motivated GP partners earlier this year alongside our experienced partner of 25 years, we are a forward-thinking practice that is looking to develop and innovate to ensure high quality patient care is maintained and health inequalities are tackled. Having recently registered as a training practice we now consist of 3 partners and 4 salaried GPs in addition to 2 nurses, GP trainees, medical students and ARRS staff. Our staff are hard-working whilst also maintaining a positive and supportive environment to work within our modern premises. Our recent staff survey proudly shows that our staff would recommend working here.

Main Duties

The role encompasses all aspects of managing the organisation including assisting with strategic planning, managing income and expenditure, all aspects of human resource management, health and safety management, and governance as well as providing a high-quality service to our patient population while balancing the wellbeing and retention of our staff. The full list of day to day duties can be found in the accompanying detailed job role document. This should be read in consideration of the development of a support role to the business manager. We do not expect one individual to deliver effectively at business management and operational level.

About You

We are seeking to find an exceptional candidate who has the drive and motivation to continue to take our practice forwards with development, growth and sustainability for the future. Our essential skills, knowledge and experience are listed below.

  • A solutions focused approach.
  • Highly knowledgeable of primary care as a proven service leader.
  • Educated to degree level or higher ideally within management and leadership.
  • Excellent communication (oral and written) and inter-personal skills.
  • Leadership skills, including excellent people management skills.
  • Motivated to achieve success across all areas of business management and high quality care provision.
  • Able to balance the demands of service delivery and the wellbeing of staff.
  • Ability to listen and empathise while remaining realistic about responding to demand.
  • Delegation and empowerment of staff.
  • Excellent IT skills.
  • High level, yet audience sensitive negotiating skills.
  • Conflict management.
  • Able to manage change and cope with pressure.
  • Networking, facilitation and coaching.
  • Enthusiastic, with energy and drive.
  • Gains respect by example and leadership.
  • Trustworthy, honest, reliable, caring and sympathetic.
  • Strategic thinking with vision.
  • Good sense of humour, personable and friendly.
  • Self-motivating and confident to work with minimal direction.
  • Adaptable and innovative.
  • Hard working, reliable and resourceful.
  • Willing to work flexible hours as sometimes necessary.
  • Considered, steady approach.
  • Diplomacy.

Why Join Violet Lane?

A few other things that might help you consider applying to join us:

  • We are a rather nice bunch of people, and our staff enjoy working with us.
  • We are committed to continual improvement, we dont do sitting on our laurels.
  • We can offer a highly competitive and rewarding salary to the successful applicant.
  • We love holidays - we will give you 6 weeks leave plus bank holidays too.
  • NHS pension (if you so wish).
  • A modern building in the heart of our local community
  • Cake, there is often cake.
  • Supportive and highly motivated partners with a true willingness to engage and develop alongside an experienced and motivated business manager, together.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Highly knowledgeable of primary care as a proven service leader.
  • Leadership skills, including excellent people management skills.
  • Strategic planning.
  • Managing income and expenditure.
  • All aspects of human resource management.
  • Health and safety management.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or higher ideally within management and leadership.

Skills

Essential

  • A solutions focused approach.
  • Excellent communication (oral and written) and inter-personal skills.
  • Motivated to achieve success across all areas of business management and high quality care provision.
  • Able to balance the demands of service delivery and the wellbeing of staff.
  • Ability to listen and empathise while remaining realistic about responding to demand.
  • Delegation and empowerment of staff.
  • Excellent IT skills.
  • High level, yet audience sensitive negotiating skills.
  • Conflict management.
  • Able to manage change and cope with pressure.
  • Networking, facilitation and coaching.
  • Enthusiastic, with energy and drive.
  • Gains respect by example and leadership.
  • Trustworthy, honest, reliable, caring and sympathetic.
  • Strategic thinking with vision.
  • Good sense of humour, personable and friendly.
  • Self-motivating and confident to work with minimal direction.
  • Adaptable and innovative.
  • Hard working, reliable and resourceful.
  • Willing to work flexible hours as sometimes necessary.
  • Considered, steady approach.
  • Diplomacy.
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Highly knowledgeable of primary care as a proven service leader.
  • Leadership skills, including excellent people management skills.
  • Strategic planning.
  • Managing income and expenditure.
  • All aspects of human resource management.
  • Health and safety management.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Educated to degree level or higher ideally within management and leadership.

Skills

Essential

  • A solutions focused approach.
  • Excellent communication (oral and written) and inter-personal skills.
  • Motivated to achieve success across all areas of business management and high quality care provision.
  • Able to balance the demands of service delivery and the wellbeing of staff.
  • Ability to listen and empathise while remaining realistic about responding to demand.
  • Delegation and empowerment of staff.
  • Excellent IT skills.
  • High level, yet audience sensitive negotiating skills.
  • Conflict management.
  • Able to manage change and cope with pressure.
  • Networking, facilitation and coaching.
  • Enthusiastic, with energy and drive.
  • Gains respect by example and leadership.
  • Trustworthy, honest, reliable, caring and sympathetic.
  • Strategic thinking with vision.
  • Good sense of humour, personable and friendly.
  • Self-motivating and confident to work with minimal direction.
  • Adaptable and innovative.
  • Hard working, reliable and resourceful.
  • Willing to work flexible hours as sometimes necessary.
  • Considered, steady approach.
  • Diplomacy.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Violet Lane Medical Practice

Address

Violet Lane Medical Practice

231 Violet Lane

Croydon

CR0 4HN


Employer's website

https://www.violetlanemedicalpractice.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Violet Lane Medical Practice

Address

Violet Lane Medical Practice

231 Violet Lane

Croydon

CR0 4HN


Employer's website

https://www.violetlanemedicalpractice.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

For questions about the job, contact:

Candidate queries

h.price6@nhs.net

07979770044

Date posted

24 October 2023

Pay scheme

Other

Salary

Depending on experience Highly competitive

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

A5709-23-0000

Job locations

Violet Lane Medical Practice

231 Violet Lane

Croydon

CR0 4HN


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