Business Manager - Planned Care Division

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• Team player with collegial working style and willingness to share responsibility
• Ability to demonstrate working in an organised and methodical manner
• Positive and flexible management of workload
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

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APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

The post holder will work on their own initiative and without direct supervision to provide proactive, comprehensive, high quality and effective senior administrative support to the Planned Care Division (comprising of three directorates - Surgery and Endoscopy, Patient Services and Critical Care, Anaesthetics, Theatres and Pain), to primarily assist and support the Divisional Director of Operations (DDO), Divisional Director of Nursing (DDN) and Divisional Medical Director (DMD).
The postholder will be responsible for coordinating administrative and financial responsibilities key to the division and be comfortable in taking the initiative to actively preempt and support the senior team. Excellent organisation and communication skills are critical.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.