Job summary
Salary Band: Band 8a (£57,528 - £64,750 per annum)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Are you an experienced, highly driven leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high-profile environment? Do you excel at navigating complexity, influencing senior stakeholders, and keeping organisational priorities on track? If so, this newly created role offers an exceptional opportunity to shape and support the strategic leadership of a major acute Trust.
Main duties of the job
About the Role
We are recruiting a Trust Leadership Team (TLT) Business Manager to provide high-level strategic, operational and management support to our Medical Director, who leads the Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust (PHU) TLT. This is a pivotal role, ensuring the smooth running, alignment and effectiveness of the Trust Leadership Team as it oversees key organisational priorities.
You will be at the centre of coordinating decision-making, tracking progress against programmes of work, and ensuring risks and issues are identified, escalated and resolved in a timely and effective manner.
About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Job description
Job responsibilities
What You Will Be Doing
Using your strong organisational, analytical and interpersonal capabilities, you will:
- Lead and manage the business of the TLT office, ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of agreed objectives
- Coordinate key organisational priorities, synthesising information and providing assurance to the Medical Director and Executive Team
- Prepare high-quality briefings, reports and presentations to support effective executive decision-making
- Manage the weekly Trust Leadership Team meeting, ensuring agendas, papers, actions and follow-up activity are planned, monitored and delivered
- Track progress of programmes of work, highlight emerging risks, and drive completion of actions across senior stakeholders
- Lead or support sensitive projects and investigations with organisation-wide impact
- Use diplomacy, tact and problem-solving skills to unblock issues and maintain momentum in a complex system
- Represent the TLT at internal and external meetings, supporting partnership working across the health and care system
About You
You will bring:
- Significant experience operating in a fast-paced NHS or complex healthcare environment
- A proven track record of delivering results, leading programmes of work and influencing senior leaders
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to write high-quality briefings and present complex information clearly
- Outstanding organisational capability - thriving under pressure, managing competing deadlines, and maintaining accuracy at pace
- Strong analytical insight, with the ability to interpret data, understand problems and identify solutions
- The confidence to act with delegated authority, using sound judgement and maintaining confidentiality at all times
Why Join PHU?
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is a large, ambitious and innovative organisation with a strong focus on improvement. This role offers a unique, close-working insight into senior decision-making, providing an exceptional development platform for future senior leadership roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
What You Will Be Doing
Using your strong organisational, analytical and interpersonal capabilities, you will:
- Lead and manage the business of the TLT office, ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of agreed objectives
- Coordinate key organisational priorities, synthesising information and providing assurance to the Medical Director and Executive Team
- Prepare high-quality briefings, reports and presentations to support effective executive decision-making
- Manage the weekly Trust Leadership Team meeting, ensuring agendas, papers, actions and follow-up activity are planned, monitored and delivered
- Track progress of programmes of work, highlight emerging risks, and drive completion of actions across senior stakeholders
- Lead or support sensitive projects and investigations with organisation-wide impact
- Use diplomacy, tact and problem-solving skills to unblock issues and maintain momentum in a complex system
- Represent the TLT at internal and external meetings, supporting partnership working across the health and care system
About You
You will bring:
- Significant experience operating in a fast-paced NHS or complex healthcare environment
- A proven track record of delivering results, leading programmes of work and influencing senior leaders
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to write high-quality briefings and present complex information clearly
- Outstanding organisational capability - thriving under pressure, managing competing deadlines, and maintaining accuracy at pace
- Strong analytical insight, with the ability to interpret data, understand problems and identify solutions
- The confidence to act with delegated authority, using sound judgement and maintaining confidentiality at all times
Why Join PHU?
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is a large, ambitious and innovative organisation with a strong focus on improvement. This role offers a unique, close-working insight into senior decision-making, providing an exceptional development platform for future senior leadership roles.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level, equivalent experience in a related subject area
- Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience
Desirable
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in a fast-paced environment within the NHS
- Management level experience including working in collective decision-making groups such as organisational wide programmes of work or healthcare partnerships that may impact service delivery
- Management level experience including working in collective decision-making groups such as organisational wide programmes of work or healthcare partnerships that may impact service delivery
- Experience of leading and delivering programmes and projects of work that have limited resources, short-medium term timeframes and result in change
- A proven track record of making a strong personal impact, demonstrating effectiveness and credibility to operate at a senior level.
- A proven record of high performance in business and/or project management roles
Desirable
- Experience of operations management in a complex healthcare organisation
- Experience of using Quality Improvement methodologies in practice
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills across a broad range of stakeholders including the ability to write high quality briefing and board papers
- Excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills, ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with internal teams, external partners and regulators
- Exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail
- Expertise in monitoring and improving performance against national targets and regulatory standards including knowledge of NHS performance standards
- A curiosity to understand problems with strong analytical skills and numeracy to enable doing so
- Can translate data, information and ideas into clear and concise information
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise under pressure
- Ability to use delegated authority appropriately and sensitively
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and a high level of discretion and sensitivity
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level, equivalent experience in a related subject area
- Educated to Masters level in relevant subject or equivalent level of experience
Desirable
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of working in a fast-paced environment within the NHS
- Management level experience including working in collective decision-making groups such as organisational wide programmes of work or healthcare partnerships that may impact service delivery
- Management level experience including working in collective decision-making groups such as organisational wide programmes of work or healthcare partnerships that may impact service delivery
- Experience of leading and delivering programmes and projects of work that have limited resources, short-medium term timeframes and result in change
- A proven track record of making a strong personal impact, demonstrating effectiveness and credibility to operate at a senior level.
- A proven record of high performance in business and/or project management roles
Desirable
- Experience of operations management in a complex healthcare organisation
- Experience of using Quality Improvement methodologies in practice
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed communication skills across a broad range of stakeholders including the ability to write high quality briefing and board papers
- Excellent relationship building and interpersonal skills, ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with internal teams, external partners and regulators
- Exceptional organisational skills and attention to detail
- Expertise in monitoring and improving performance against national targets and regulatory standards including knowledge of NHS performance standards
- A curiosity to understand problems with strong analytical skills and numeracy to enable doing so
- Can translate data, information and ideas into clear and concise information
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise under pressure
- Ability to use delegated authority appropriately and sensitively
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and a high level of discretion and sensitivity
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.
