Job summary
- Main area
- Administration
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 990-WTE-6452724-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- York House
- Town
- Horley
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Business & Education Manager
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
The Business & Education Manager works with the Senior Business & Education Manager and the Head of Business & Education across the Region and Sub-Region supporting the business and education function which includes management and operational delivery of medical and dental education activity. Examples of which are financial management and governance, project management, and successful delivery of recruitment and programme management activities for medical and dental trainees. They will develop and implement locally defined processes whilst following standard operating procedures, utilising national policy, and guidelines.
Main duties of the job
The post is responsible for leading managing and supporting a client-focused, comprehensive service establishing and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders. They will provide subject matter expert level advice to senior clinical staff, and internal and external stakeholders within their functional area of business. The role involves understanding and managing a range of complex issues e.g. implementation of financial processes, management and planning within NHSE Standing Financial Instructions, performance management, contract management and monitoring arrangements, information governance requirements and the wider healthcare developments and service delivery needs of local provider organisations.
In addition, the role requires understanding of the recruitment and assessment regulations, monitoring requirements of GMC and the monitoring and data management requirements of training posts.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This post holder will be responsible for assimilating complicated and multi- stranded information from a range of sources and will be required to analyse, summarise, undertake gap analysis and provided evidence based recommendations e.g. on medical workforce commissions, medical workforce planning and finance information to Senior Education Team, internal and external, across the Region.
This role involves contributing to strategic planning and leading on designated functional areas for medical education commissioning, both within a local office and regional context. This will include supporting development of strategic workforce plan and drafting the investment plan for medical education for the next five years, contributing to organisational deliverables, national, regionally, and locally.
The post holder must use their own judgement to deal with this complexity, often in the face of conflicting pressures and information recognising when appropriate to escalate as well as maintaining good working relationships with stakeholders requiring highly developed communication and engagement skills.
The post holder would be required to draft and implement locally and regionally a range of guidance for their functional area to support the service delivery of medical and dental education, based on national policy.
The postholder will have line management responsibility for staff in the relevant team(s) as defined within each Local Office or regionally. In addition, the postholder will be expected to contribute to the multi- professional nature of the business of NHSE across the South East region and support region-wide PGMDE activities.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to Masters level or equivalent experience at a senior level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience of leading and managing a team and contributing to organisational objectives and deliverables
- Significant experience in postgraduate medical and dental education at foundation, core and specialty level
- Relevant experience of managing budgets and data and understanding of financial systems with excellent attention to detail and ability to assimilate and present complex information
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent and confident interpersonal and negotiating skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Booth
- Job title
- Associate Head of Business and Education
- Email address
- [email protected]
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