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Job summary

Main area
Medical Director
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Fixed term: 7 months (The post can be considered as a secondment for internal applicants if successful, subject to current line managers agreement.)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
190-7861-DIR
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northern General Hospital
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£43,742 - £50,056 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/07/2024 23:59
Interview date
22/07/2024

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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Business Manager (Medical Directors' Office)

NHS AfC: Band 7

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

The Medical Directors’ Office Business Manager is responsible for providing support to develop and improve the Medical Directors’ business, performance and governance management structures and practices. 

The Chief Medical Officers, Deputy Medical Directors and a number of associate MDs, provide clinical leadership to workstreams and programmes across the organisation.

The Business Manager role will underpin these by providing appropriate support, ensuring relevant governance arrangements are in place, that risks are managed through trust systems, and ensuring programmes are coordinated.

The post will also support effective response to incidents (e.g. industrial action) as well as identifying opportunity to further develop the Medical Directors’ Office response to internal and external business requirements.

 For this post you will need strong co-ordination and communication skills to ensure consistency and high performance, along with being instrumental in supporting the staff, compliance and governance work of the directorate and associated programmes/workstreams.

 

Main duties of the job

The postholder will be responsible for delivery in the following areas:

Management and development of the Medical Directors’ Office corporate administrative and business functions to ensure that it meets the needs of the Chief Medical Officers and the Deputy Medical Directors.

Ensuring appropriate business governance models are in place and operating effectively in support of the wider medical workforce agenda.

Provide programme-specific performance management support to Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Medical Director-led programmes/workstreams within the Medical Directors’ portfolio.

Working for our organisation

Our patients are not just numbers, they are individuals. Proud to make a difference is not just our slogan but the way we do things:

Patients First – Ensure that the people we serve are at the heart of what we do.

Respectful – Be kind respectful, fair and value diversity.

Ownership – Celebrate our successes, learn continuously, and ensure we improve.

Unity – Work in partnership with others.

Deliver – Be efficient, effective, and accountable for our actions.                     

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives, ensuring that they feel supported, valued, and appreciated so whilst you take care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you.

We offer many ways of helping staff, including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems.

Joining the Trust also allows you access to several saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (STHFT) is one of the largest and most successful NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK, and our major academic partners; the University of Sheffield (UoS) and Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) are amongst the best in the country. 

 

Detailed job description and main 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. 

This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for a period until 31st March 2025 due to the post being recruited as part of a limited term project within the Trust. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts taking into consideration the requirement for the post to be maintained as a part of the project’s implementation and the timescales associated with this.

Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area.
  • Evidence of continued professional development
  • Formal training on Microsoft packages or equivalent demonstrable experience
Desirable criteria
  • Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or significant equivalent experience
  • Prince II Qualification or equivalent project management qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant relevant management experience within the NHS or other complex organisation
  • Evidence of financial management experience or training
  • Ability to prioritise workload and deal with competing priorities in a busy working environment
  • Experience of supporting the implementation and performance management of strategy and policy within a complex organisation
  • Experience of analysing and presenting compliance data
  • Proven ability to problem solve, analyse and manage change in a complex organisation
Desirable criteria
  • Evidence of people management including performance management
  • Project or programme management experience across multiple stakeholders within a complex organisation

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Able to manage processes with an open and participative style
  • Well-developed interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate, influence and motivate effectively
  • Excellent time management skills and experience of working to deadlines
  • Clear understanding of confidentiality and its application in the role
  • Ability to motive, negotiate, influence and support staff and multiple stakeholders

Personal Qualities

Essential criteria
  • Ability to deal with competing priorities and to deliver outputs to multiple deadlines
  • Able to work autonomously with appropriate decision-making skills
  • Flexible to meet the needs of the service

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Latesha Brown
Job title
Medical Directorate Business Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01142713695
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