Business Manager

Band 8A: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum (effective from 01/04/2026)

Hours Per Week: Full Time 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

Work Base: Queen Alexandra Hospital, Southwick Hill Road, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 3LY

The Business Manager for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endoscopy, is expected to support the Clinical Specialty Lead and Matron to deliver the effective integrated clinical, operation and financial performance of the Specialty through tripartite management.

This role is responsible for ensuring national and local access targets are achieved, along with ensuring all aspects of people, performance and financial objectives are delivered as per the Specialty business plan.  The Business Manager will provide strong leadership at a Specialty level, ensuring that there are appropriate systems and processes in place to deliver objectives and drive forward the service to improve the operational effectiveness of the Specialties. 

To enable them to execute this responsibility the post holder is expected to provide proactive and visible leadership. Leadership will span four key areas: service leadership, people and personal leadership, quality leadership and collaborative leadership.

Business Managers are expected to work as part of a cohesive team and, when necessary, to take lead responsibility for corporate issues outside their immediate sphere of responsibility in order to achieve the corporate objectives of the Trust.

Shared Core Functions:

• Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort. Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks,
• Support team members to deliver on their functionally relevant objectives through offering advice, guidance and support as appropriate.
• Ensure that approved budgets are spent effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures
• Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated
• Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required
• Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trust’s stated objectives & aims
• Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team. Engage with external partners/stakeholders to gain their necessary level of contribution & commitment to the successful delivery of your work.
• Undertake proactive horizon scanning for either developments relating to Trust work or opportunities for Trust involvement around health issues
• Increase the level of knowledge & skills within the Trust through documenting key learning and supporting others to develop their professional abilities.
• Dissemination of knowledge through engagement in report writing, and reviewing, taking full responsibility for technical accuracy and reliability and being sensitive to the wider implications of that dissemination.
• Ensure that expertise is seen as a resource within and outside the Trust and form working partnerships with government departments, national agencies and key stakeholders.
• Develop structures, systems, ways of working and personal values that will support the Trusts sustainable development objectives with regard to issues such as Carbon reduction and waste minimisation; and to encourage all stakeholders of the Trust to act as enthusiastic agents of change.

For further information please see enclosed job description.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• Graduate Level, or equivalent, academic or Healthcare professional qualification
• Postgraduate qualification(s) or equivalent applied learning relating to Business Management, Finance, Accountancy, Marketing or People Management
• Postgraduate (Masters) Qualification
• Members of a clinical and/or management professional body
• Evidence of continuing professional development.

Experience

Essential

• Previous and Successful operational management experience

Desirable

• Experience gained at Operational management level within the Health Service sector
• Proven successful track record in:

• supporting and sustaining transformational change within a complex organisation; 
• translating business strategy into operational delivery
• managing operating budgets and delivering financial surplus;
• leading and performance-managing teams and individuals.

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Highly developed operational leadership skills
• Ability to quickly establish effective working relationships and develop strong team working.

• Well developed interpersonal and facilitation skills, with ability to gain and maintain credibility with senior clinicians.
• Highly effective presentation skills and the ability to present well-reasoned and structured argument orally and in writing.
• Highly developed analytical skills.
• Proficiency in the use of ICT applications to support efficient work activity, including the analysis, interpretation and presentation of complex data.
• Ability to manage priorities in order to meet specific deadlines.
• Ability to hold direct and non direct reports to account.

Desirable

• Detailed knowledge of Clinical Quality and Safety methodologies.
• Detailed knowledge of Clinical and Corporate Governance frameworks, legislation and best practice.
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of clinical and corporate governance and risk management systems and processes.

Personal Qualities

• Tenacity: demonstrates high levels of self-belief, drive, enthusiasm and stamina to achieve goals and see things through.
• Ability to motivate, inspire and provide innovative solutions.
• Excellent judgement.
• Ability to achieve consistently good results in an inclusive and collaborative manner.
• Ability to work effectively in a complex and changing environment.
• Ability to work under pressure to demanding timetables.
• Understands the need to deliver short-term priorities and achieve long-term goals (sense of balance).
• High degree of political awareness.
• Displays innovative and lateral thinking.
• Prepared to work totally flexibly.
• High degree of self-awareness.
• Ability to maintain confidence, at all times.
• High levels of personal integrity and loyalty.
• Intellectual flexibility that enables the reasoned assessment of a situation and the ability to draw pragmatic conclusions.
• Ability to ‘broad scan’ to keep abreast of developments in the Health Care sector.
• Ability to deal with confidential issues in a professional and sensitive manner.

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.