Job summary
This is an exciting new post and we are seeking a full-time (permanent) B7 Deputy Business Manager for the Laboratory Medicine Directorate to support the existing Directorate Business Manager and Laboratory Medicine Management Team.
The post will provide day-to-day management of the Business Team and will provide the successful candidate with an opportunity to contribute at a transformational time for laboratory services at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and across South Yorkshire & Bassetlaw Pathology .
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will lead and support the Business Team, reporting to the Directorate Business Manager and supporting the wider Laboratory Medicine Management Team.
The post-holder will have delegated business management responsibility for the Directorate, including tracking Directorate performance against annual business plans and budgets and for contribution to tender submissions, business cases and capital bids.
They will oversee and provide line-management and leadership to the Business Team staff, working and developing systems to ensure that accurate and timely information is available to support invoicing, service delivery and pricing projects.
They will engage with all aspects of contracting, marketing and customer service developments to attract and retain new customer referrals to the service, supporting the income and P&E directives of the Directorate.
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it's staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust operates with a budget of £1.2 bn, has a workforce of over 18,500 employees, covers 5 hospital sites, provides care from over 40 community settings and has an excellent reputation for research.
The SYB Pathology network includes:
- Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (STHFT)
- Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT)
- Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (DBTHFT)
- The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust (TRFT)
- Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
- Management qualification, or, demonstrable management experience to the equivalent level
- Post graduate qualification, or equivalent extensive and in-depth specialist experience, in business management, including business intelligence and marketing
- Maths and English Language GCSE minimum Grade C.
Experience
Essential
- Previous managerial experience including knowledge of managing services, financial management and management of staff
- Experience of implementing policy, service planning and development and writing business cases
- Excellent spreadsheet and analytical skills, experience of manipulating complex data and presenting to a range of audiences
- Ability to understand and explain financial and activity information
Desirable
- Previous experience of Pathology services
- Experience of using ESR (Electronic Staff Record), CENTROS (Finance system) and other NHS information systems.
- Understanding of NHS policy and experience of delivering against current NHS targets
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Analytical, resilient and creative person, who is able to work under their own initiative in order to meet challenging deadlines; comfortable with taking decisions, often under pressure
- An open and honest approach, high levels of integrity
- Highly developed leadership skills. Self-motivated and able to motivate others. Understands the importance of staff training/development and possess excellent coaching and facilitating skills
- Excellent written, spoken and presentational skills. Sound and influential negotiator.
- Evidence of ability to work as a member of a team. Able to build effective working relationships. Able to handle and resolve conflict.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexible attitude to working hours. Ability to deal with competing priorities and to organise self and team members to deliver outputs to multiple deadlines.
- Commitment to undertake ALL training requirements of the post and to influence staff team members to do the same
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
- Management qualification, or, demonstrable management experience to the equivalent level
- Post graduate qualification, or equivalent extensive and in-depth specialist experience, in business management, including business intelligence and marketing
- Maths and English Language GCSE minimum Grade C.
Experience
Essential
- Previous managerial experience including knowledge of managing services, financial management and management of staff
- Experience of implementing policy, service planning and development and writing business cases
- Excellent spreadsheet and analytical skills, experience of manipulating complex data and presenting to a range of audiences
- Ability to understand and explain financial and activity information
Desirable
- Previous experience of Pathology services
- Experience of using ESR (Electronic Staff Record), CENTROS (Finance system) and other NHS information systems.
- Understanding of NHS policy and experience of delivering against current NHS targets
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Analytical, resilient and creative person, who is able to work under their own initiative in order to meet challenging deadlines; comfortable with taking decisions, often under pressure
- An open and honest approach, high levels of integrity
- Highly developed leadership skills. Self-motivated and able to motivate others. Understands the importance of staff training/development and possess excellent coaching and facilitating skills
- Excellent written, spoken and presentational skills. Sound and influential negotiator.
- Evidence of ability to work as a member of a team. Able to build effective working relationships. Able to handle and resolve conflict.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexible attitude to working hours. Ability to deal with competing priorities and to organise self and team members to deliver outputs to multiple deadlines.
- Commitment to undertake ALL training requirements of the post and to influence staff team members to do the same
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
