Business Manager, SWAG Cancer Alliance

at  North Bristol NHS Trust

The post holder will work as part of the senior management team delivering an efficient and effective Business Management Service, supporting managers and staff to ensure that their work stream of activities is planned and managed effectively assisting in their successful delivery. Play a leading role in the overall business and operational management of the Cancer Alliance. Enhance SWAG Cancer Alliance patient experience and outcomes by helping to deliver efficient and responsive business and operational management. Work with the senior management team, NHS England Regional Assurance Team and the National Cancer Programme Team to ensure the objectives of the Long-Term Plan for Cancer are achieved through strong leadership and clear direction.
Ensure the efficient and effective use of resources, in particular effective financial management. Assist with the planning and assurance/reporting processes. Monitor and report performance against the Cancer Alliance plan, particularly delivery of objectives financial plan and other targets and advise the Managing Director of variances and actions necessary to deliver the plan. Proactively devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting, and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
Maintain the Cancer Alliance website, develop and implement the communications plan including annual reports and newsletters. Provide line management for the support function within the team (administrative staff). Provide managerial non-clinical liaison with external partners including ICB Cancer Leads and commercial companies and other Cancer Alliance counterparts. Monitor and participate in budget setting, performance and review.
Provision of accurate information to the Finance Department, which is highly complex in nature. Produce regular audit reports on SWAG CA activity providing accurate information to support the development and monitoring of contracts and service level agreements. This will include processing highly complex and sensitive information in order to produce reports for communication within and outside the department. Maintain clear strategic direction for the Cancer Alliance that is consistent with the overall objectives of Cancer Alliances.
Develop business cases, funding bids templates and processes, etc as necessary for the development of ICB cancer plans. Attend meetings as appropriate for business and planning purposes to secure resources. Contribute to the development and achievement of the cancer alliance objectives including support of systems integral to the cancer alliance. Manage the cancer alliance asset register.
Liaise with the IM&T Department to ensure that the cancer alliance optimises the use of new technologies. Manipulate information using MS access, MS Excel etc and present data (verbal and written) using these software packages and others MS Word, MS PowerPoint etc. Ensure that a high level of personal professionalism and competence is maintained. Participate in annual appraisal and development review in line with Trust polices.
Attend local and national meetings on behalf of the cancer alliance as appropriate. Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written, to enable the post holder to communicate to a wide range of audiences both internal and external. Effective team worker. Highly effective leadership and management skills Excellent planning and organisational skills to enable the post-holder to complete own workload in an efficient and effective manner; to delegate work as required and to make adjustments to people and processes where necessary; and to ensure that the resources within the department are used effectively to ensure delivery of service that meets user needs

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