A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a motivated and organised Senior Business Manager to join the Group Digital Services Team at Manchester Foundation Trust (MFT).
We are looking for a skilled, enthusiastic, and dedicated member of staff with a delivery focus who can align to our values and behaviors. You will be delivering exciting change initiatives, service improvements and defined projects across our portfolio of work, supporting the achievement of the MFT Digital Strategy and wider organizational strategies and digital aspirations.
Main duties of the job
1. To ensure the Group Chief Digital Information Officer receives the support required to be effective in the full range of their duties and responsibilities.
2. To organise and ensure effective delivery of specific meetings led/chaired by the Group Chief Digital Information Officer and provide comprehensive, direct, and proactive assistance to the Group Chief Digital Information Officer in terms of the production of presentations, reports, and briefings.
3. To ensure the Group Chief Digital Information Officer is briefed for meetings and engagements, following up actions as required.
4. To work in close partnership with the Group Chief Digital Information Officer Executive Assistant to manage and prioritise the Group Chief Executive's calendar and commitments.
5. To act as a key liaison point for the Executive Director Team (EDT), ensuring that EDT agendas and those for other key meetings reflect relevant business, ensuring reports are received and circulated on time.
6. To interpret and analyse information and produce reports.
About us
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you'll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that you're even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you'll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We're looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Master's degree or equivalent experience.
Desirable
* Business and / or project management qualification.
KNOWLEDGE
Essential
* Specialist knowledge and experience of performance management, information systems, project/programme and business management.
* Knowledge and working experience of MFT.
* Familiar with GM health and social care more broadly.
* Informed about the NHS and current national, regional and local strategies and policies.
* Knowledge and experience of managing staff within a healthcare setting.
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE
Essential
* Management of resources with a recent history of involvement with change processes, efficiency savings and project management.
* Experience of developing and maintaining effective partnerships with stakeholders.
* Experience of project management, report writing and imaginative planning.
* Experience of managing staff.
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
Desirable
* An understanding of effective systems for integrated governance and the management of clinical and non-clinical risks.
* Strong analytical skills and ability to consider 'the wider picture.'
Employer details
Employer name
Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Manchester Universities NHS Foundation Trust, Cobbett House
Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9WL
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