Business Manager

Are you a great leader looking for your next challenge?

Salary: Competitive. Total package depending on experience

You can achieve more at St Andrew’s Healthcare

We are St Andrew's. We are a mental health Charity and our purpose is to inspire hope for those living with complex mental health needs.

We are looking to a future with less stigma, more community support, more research and education, and we aim to be at the forefront of inspiring real change. We want to ensure we can all live in a society where everyone with complex mental health needs is heard, valued and has hope for their future.

Come and join us, and support us to help people transform their lives.

The role

In this exciting new high profile role reporting to our Director of Operations, you will play a pivotal role in collaborating with various leaders and teams within our Clinical Services and Operations Directorate.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the development of business plans and individual business cases, while providing the relevant data and analysis from different source to enable the most effective decisions to be taken
• Providing highly specialist advice and valuable support for project delivery and working alongside teams to identify and solve complex problems
• Managing Operational and Clinical Services projects, ensuring project plans and reports are in place, co-ordinating service resources including people, maximising efficiency in processes and project delivery
• Deputising for senior management and supporting the Services as required
• Maintaining a focus on continuous improvement; always working to achieve a better customer experience, improved efficiency, and better quality
• Working closely with the divisional leadership team to deliver cultural change and drive staff, patient and carer engagement.
• Ensuring the Clinical Services deliver to the high standards set internally and within customer SLAs
• Writing and delivering presentations and training to large groups of staff, customers and stakeholders

About you

You’ll be an experienced, inspiring and compassionate operational leader with significant experience of delivering high performance and results through effective business and project delivery. You will be an excellent communicator with strong influencing and negotiation skills. You will be highly skilled at presenting, analysing and interpreting complex data and be comfortable in decision making and problem solving.

With high levels of personal integrity you will be well experienced in winning hearts and minds through periods of complex change. You will also be highly adept at managing effective relationships to a senior level and a strong track record of meeting business targets.

You will have both the breadth and depth of skills to fulfil the role described above and high levels of resilience to lead and embed significant change.

Rewards

We offer an excellent benefits package including: Pension; Sickness policy on par with the NHS; Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes; 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing to 41 after 10 years' service; Buy and Sell your Annual Leave; Employee Assistance and Wellbeing Programme; Life cover; Electric car lease scheme; Cycle to work scheme; Free parking; onsite gym and swimming pool facilities; Paid DBS application; Access to free vocational qualifications.

Interested?

If this sounds like you then we’d love you to apply here. If you would like an informal and confidential discussion about our Charity, the role and the package, please contact our Recruitment Team.

Closing date: 25 September 2024