Job summary
- Main area
- Women's and Children's
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 10 months (10 months FTC from 14th July 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 423-7261904
- Employer
- Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Airedale General Hospital
- Town
- Steeton
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Business Improvement & Development Manager (Band 7)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of our future landscape
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future – a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust.
Job overview
The post holder will assist the Patient Service Manager (PSM) in addressing the Trust’s strategic and operational agenda. The post holder will oversee day to day service management issues, liaising with departments and teams as required. The post holder will provide line management for key staff within the group, and will deputise for the PSM as required. They will support the delivery and development of improved performance across the organisation and promote quality improvement including leading on specific programmes of development which will be clearly defined.
Main duties of the job
Service Development
Staff Management
Modernising Services
Communication
Finance and Activity Management
Data Quality
Governance
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it’s down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience – we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Service Development
Staff Management
Modernising Services
Communication
Finance and Activity Management
Data Quality
Governance
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Post graduate qualification in Leadership or Management (or equivalent level of experience/qualification)
- Highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory and experience Knowledge of health service management, including change management and workforce re-design, acquired through training and experience to Masters’ level equivalent
- Evidence of relevant continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
- Service improvement training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience within the Healthcare sector including project management, business planning, change management, multidisciplinary working, financial management, human resource management, performance management
- Evidence of supporting programmes of change in a complex organisation through development of services or policy implementation
- Evidence of having achieved challenging healthcare/business targets
- Thorough understanding of the NHS Constitution and its implications.
- Knowledge of Planning and organising a broad range of complex activities; formulating, adjusting plans and strategies including implementing new ways of working, facilitate collaborative working, capacity planning
- Proven evidence of developing team work
- Evidence of financial management.
- Evidence of delivering a high quality customer facing service.
- Proven ability to analyse complex facts or situations, requiring analysis, interpretation, comparison of a range of options
- Experience of managing/maintaining an information system that stores, processes and/or updates data.
Desirable criteria
- Understand the principles and practical knowledge of risk assessment methods and techniques
- Management experience in an operational role within the NHS
- Evidence of negotiating skills
- Experience of Management within a secondary care NHS Foundation Trust
- Ability to identify and implement best practice solutions and methods across a wide range of services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kayleigh Brothers
- Job title
- Patient Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01535652511
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