Job summary
We are recruiting for Business Managerwho wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS in our Pharmacy Department. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "great people, great place".
We are looking for a highly organised, self-motivated, and enthusiastic person with well-developed interpersonal skills to join our friendly, supportive, and innovative team. There is an opportunity to gain valuable experience within the pharmacy setting, developing your leadership and managerial skills.
Main duties of the job
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.
About us
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.
Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.
Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a key role to support the management and development of business, project, and performance for Medicines Optimisation directorate-wide activities, working with clinical leads and multi-disciplinary teams contributing to the Trust and wider Islands health and social care partnerships.
Responsible for ensuring effective business support is delivered through the monitoring of highly complex and sensitive data for the improvement of Trust directorate-wide medicines optimisation activities.
Comprehensive responsibility for managing, maintaining, and developing the Trust directorate-wide medicines optimisation systems.
Monitors a broad range of complex investment projects with autonomy in plan formulation, investment, and strategies for implementation; followed by monitoring of the new ways of collaborative working.
Supporting the Chief Pharmacist and Associate Director Medicines Optimisation with the development of business plans, capital bids, SLAs (service level agreements), rotational sessional staffing and specific for the expansion of joint working collaboration with other NHS Trusts and Commissioners.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This is a key role to support the management and development of business, project, and performance for Medicines Optimisation directorate-wide activities, working with clinical leads and multi-disciplinary teams contributing to the Trust and wider Islands health and social care partnerships.
Responsible for ensuring effective business support is delivered through the monitoring of highly complex and sensitive data for the improvement of Trust directorate-wide medicines optimisation activities.
Comprehensive responsibility for managing, maintaining, and developing the Trust directorate-wide medicines optimisation systems.
Monitors a broad range of complex investment projects with autonomy in plan formulation, investment, and strategies for implementation; followed by monitoring of the new ways of collaborative working.
Supporting the Chief Pharmacist and Associate Director Medicines Optimisation with the development of business plans, capital bids, SLAs (service level agreements), rotational sessional staffing and specific for the expansion of joint working collaboration with other NHS Trusts and Commissioners.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience plus further training and experience to post-graduate diploma level/ equivalent.
- Role specific specialist knowledge of business case procedures, multiple digital systems, managerial knowledge, performance, and project monitoring.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Keyboard skill enabling the use advanced IT packages.
- Good time management skills.
- Assertiveness.
- Mentoring.
- Decision Making.
- Managing change.
Aptitudes
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to problem solve and use own initiative working within limits of responsibility.
- Demonstrate ability to work autonomously.
- Demonstrate ability to follow and promote the Vision values and behaviours of the IW Trust.
- Independent attention with good judgement and analytical skills.
- Good concentration and patience skills.
- Maintain flexible and adaptable reasoning.
- Superb communicator and influence.
Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to produce accurate, well presented reports and presentations. Show attention to detail combined with ability to extract key details from highly complex data.
- Deal with heavy and often unpredictable workload that may require switching tasks at short notice.
- Ability to reach pragmatic solutions to different types of challenges with comparisons and compliance.
- Demonstrate knowledge of managing bespoke databases.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Superb communicator and influence.
- Maintain effective communication with all levels of staff, including high management, commissioners, external stakeholders, clinicians, other staff specialities and disciplines.
- Promote and develop good working relationships.
- Advanced communication skills to motivate, persuade and explain to others with the benefit of verbal, non-verbal skills and using a variety of means.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree-level qualification or equivalent experience plus further training and experience to post-graduate diploma level/ equivalent.
- Role specific specialist knowledge of business case procedures, multiple digital systems, managerial knowledge, performance, and project monitoring.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Keyboard skill enabling the use advanced IT packages.
- Good time management skills.
- Assertiveness.
- Mentoring.
- Decision Making.
- Managing change.
Aptitudes
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to problem solve and use own initiative working within limits of responsibility.
- Demonstrate ability to work autonomously.
- Demonstrate ability to follow and promote the Vision values and behaviours of the IW Trust.
- Independent attention with good judgement and analytical skills.
- Good concentration and patience skills.
- Maintain flexible and adaptable reasoning.
- Superb communicator and influence.
Abilities
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to produce accurate, well presented reports and presentations. Show attention to detail combined with ability to extract key details from highly complex data.
- Deal with heavy and often unpredictable workload that may require switching tasks at short notice.
- Ability to reach pragmatic solutions to different types of challenges with comparisons and compliance.
- Demonstrate knowledge of managing bespoke databases.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Superb communicator and influence.
- Maintain effective communication with all levels of staff, including high management, commissioners, external stakeholders, clinicians, other staff specialities and disciplines.
- Promote and develop good working relationships.
- Advanced communication skills to motivate, persuade and explain to others with the benefit of verbal, non-verbal skills and using a variety of means.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
