Business Manager

As a senior manager working at directorate level with considerable freedom to act, the post holder will play a key role in supporting the Public Health Directorate in the development and implementation of key objectives to deliver the highest standards of patient care and service delivery.
The post holder will assist the Executive Director of Public Health and the Senior Management Team, with dedicated project and directorate resources contributing to the Local Public Health Team project delivery. The post holder is expected to transfer skills for quality improvement in order to grow and embed improvement and project management capabilities within the directorate and to champion their role across the UHB. In addition, the post holder will have specific directorate responsibilities, often working within tight timescales and competing demands. This work will often involve working with highly complex, sensitive and contentious information with a high degree of autonomy.
The job holder will provide leadership and actively promote the activities and standards of the Public Health service, as well as acting as an expert on all business matters of services within the directorate., Lead the design, development and delivery of a number of large, complex, process and service changes across the Public Health pathway in collaboration with service leads and service users. The change programmes may completely redesign how the directorate provides a whole end to end service for patients; or may be fundamentally changing the way we do things, requiring policy change.
Contribution to providing innovative solutions and developmental interventions to ensure top performance and delivery of directorate vision. To achieve this, the post holder will require excellent communication and interpersonal skills to work with the Service Leads, Heads of Service and other senior leaders to continuously improve performance.
Define the future measures and aims for service delivery, ensuring consistency with our operating model and local objectives and with national best practice for Health Service development.
Support the Executive Director of Public Health by providing the necessary infrastructure, systems and skills required to meet the long-term performance requirements for the delivery of identified key programmes and projects.
Liaise with finance team at directorate level to support financial management.
Engage with all stakeholders to determine key objectives and processes. Lead projects ensuring that all deliverables are met, for example within digital workstreams., Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
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The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. Serving a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health
and care needs of our local population whilst also working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone and to delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together". We have recently refreshed our strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which sets out the Health Board's Vision for improving the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve by 2035 through the delivery of our strategic
objectives; Putting People First, Providing Outstanding Quality, Delivering in the Right Places, and Acting for the Future. We have challenging times ahead, but we are confident that by tackling these challenges together, we can support people to live healthier lives and reduce the unfair differences in
the prevalence of illness and health outcomes we see in our communities today. We aspire to deliver outstanding care and treatment for people when they need it, where they need it; care that compares well with the best in the world, but to do so, we need to transform how we deliver services over the
next decade and beyond.
We are a values-driven organisation and out goals will only be realised if our values are at the heart of everything we do. Created by colleagues, patients and their families and carers, our values are:
+ We are kind and caring
+ We are respectful
+ We have trust and integrity
+ We take personal responsibility
As an organisation we strongly believe that it is vital our leaders exhibit the behaviours and values that we expect from all our staff.
We are a teaching Health Board with close links to the university sector, and together we are training the next generation of healthcare professionals, while working on research that will hopefully unlock the cures for today's illnesses
The salary scale above has been agreed as part of the NHS Agenda for Change pay award for 2024/2025 and will be implemented in November 2024 backdated to 1st April 2024 where applicable., Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.