Trust Leadership Team Business Manager

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.

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.

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.

Please see enclosed for full Job Description 

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

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.