Job summary
Employer heading
Senior Business Manager
Grade 7
Job overview
Grade: G7
National - £51,824 - £61,414
Outer London - £53,812 - £63,252
Inner London - £55,799 - £65,089
Location: National, Hybrid
As the role is predominantly home-based, the salary will depend on the candidate’s home location – travel to various UKHSA sites will be required.
*Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available.*
Working Pattern – Full Time
The UKHSA Public Health Microbiology Service is unique in having a managed network strategically placed across the country, which deliver a total microbiology service, providing end to end diagnostic services with specialist consultant clinical advice, to the NHS, Local Authorities and UKHSA Health Protection Teams
Main duties of the job
We are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Business Manager to provide general management functions across the South East, South West and London. She/he will support the Head of Business Operations in ensuring the effective management of the full range of UKHSA Public Health Microbiology Services.
The postholder will provide general management functions to support the UKHSA Public Health Microbiology Laboratories deliver key clinical and public health services and interventions. The post holder will also provide business analysis expertise, ensuring the successful design and implementation of efficient cost-effective services, which deliver both financial savings and service improvements.
As well as developing Service Level Agreements, the post holder will monitor all NHS contracts within the UKHSA Public Health Microbiology Service ensuring that cost, quality, internal and external customer requirements are always met.
Working for our organisation
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality of opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce. UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As the Senior Business Manager, your main responsibilities will include:
- Engaging with UKHSA staff, consultants and contractors working on a variety of PHM topics.
- Working effectively with colleague strategic partners working on other UKHSA PHM related projects and programmes within Government, with Local Authorities, local partners and the NHS.
- Providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, presenting information, to a wide range of stakeholders in a formal setting.
- Working and engaging constructively with internal and external stakeholders on a range of business sensitive issues for UKHSA PHMs.
- Nurturing key relationships and maintain networks internally and externally, including national networks
- Ensuring close liaison with Communications and Marketing teams on public relations and marketing activities
- Linking with managers and members of other functions, to address inter-dependencies and ensure alignment
- Applying a structured change management approach and methodology for the impact of any chang
- Deputising for senior colleagues as required, expanding on knowledge, skills and experience within their own personal professional development.
- Identifying business risks and make recommendations to the Head of Operations and Deputy Director to manage those risks, regionally and nationally.
- Produce business cases to support decision making at the divisional level, which are rigorous, prudent and fully exploit opportunities available.
- The Senior Business Manager will provide general management functions to support the PHM laboratories. The post holder will support PHM laboratories to ensure the effective business and financial management of PHM laboratories in the Southeast and South West
The duties/responsibilities listed above describe the post as it is at present and is not intended to be exhaustive. The Job holder is expected to accept reasonable alterations and additional tasks of a similar level that may be necessary.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
Working for the UKHSA
For more information on the UKHSA please visit: UK Health Security Agency - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
- Range of health and wellbeing support
Any move to UKHSA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at Childcare Choices | 30 Hours Free Childcare, Tax-Free Childcare and More | Help with Costs | GOV.UK
Selection process details
STAGE 1 - APPLICATION & SIFT:
You will be required to complete an application form and a statement of suitability of 1250 words. This will be assessed in line with the advertised essential criteria – please do provide evidence of how you meet this.
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to an interview.
STAGE 2 – INTERVIEW
This competition will involve an interview either by video or face to face.
As part of the process, candidates will be invited to interview which will involve an in-depth discussion of your previous experience and professional competence in relation to the criteria set out in the Person Specification.
Please note that as part of the interview process, you may be required to undertake a test of presentation.
Your Statement of Suitability should outline your skills, experience, and achievements, providing evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria (outlined in the person specification section).
You will also be asked to provide information within the ‘Employer/ Activity history’ section of the application form. This is equivalent to the information you would provide on a CV, setting out your career history.
The Success Profiles framework will be used to assess and recruit the most suitable candidate. The following behaviours and strengths will be used at the interview:
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
- Leadership
- Communicating and influencing
Expected Timeline:
Advert close: 23:55hrs on 3rd May 2024 – unfortunately, late applications will not be considered. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.
Please note these dates could be subject to change.
Eligibility Criteria
Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants)
Nationality requirements
Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
Security clearance level requirement
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard. People working with government assets must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard checks.
For posts on UKHSA Civil Service terms and conditions, new entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band. For existing Civil Servants and roles advertised across government, the rules of transfer apply, i.e., level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive a 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.
Please Note
This role is to be appointed under Civil Service Terms & Conditions. Full details on the T&C’s are found https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/
Are you already a civil servant, or employed by a Civil Service Commission accredited public body? Please state home department on your application form.
Do you meet the nationality requirements for this post? https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or significant experience of working at a similar level in a specialist area
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post-graduate degree in Management Studies or equivalent
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
- Must understand the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement
- An appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health and individual provider and commissioning organisations
- Member of relevant professional body
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large and influential groups
- Ability to negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise
- Demonstrated capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly
Desirable criteria
- • Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jon Payne
- Job title
- RPO Lead Recruiter
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03301921580
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