Business and Service Improvement Manager

We are a large Directorate covering Adult Community Mental Health services, Adult Learning Disability services and Adult Autism Services across three South East London Boroughs, Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich. With over 1000 staff and budgets in excess of £24m we are a busy directorate with huge opportunity for a varied and interesting workload. The post holder has responsibility for the management, and successful delivery of all operational aspects of business, finance activity, and performance management for the Directorate. They are responsible for the strategic planning of all aspects of the business agenda. They have responsibility for taking necessary action to ensure that the Directorate's service is delivered within the budget available, and for negotiating and managing associated income streams. The post holder has line management responsibility for the Business Office team, project team and are responsible for the Directorate's support services. The post holder will lead on all aspects of financial and business negotiations with Commissioners and Local Authorities alongside the leadership team. The post holder must work autonomously in decision making forums and work independently with Directors and senior staff. They are an integral member of the Senior Management Team and lead on the delegated areas, specifically contract negotiation, monitoring, and financial and information management., You will assist the Service Director and Clinical Director in developing new services and initiatives, and in influencing relationships with key external stakeholders. You will lead on the delivery of a service improvement programme, as prioritised by the Trust's service improvement programme agenda, and local service priorities and take a leading role in developing and implementing local service changes for the Directorate by taking management responsibility for all improvement activities. Take delegated responsibility, on behalf of the Service Director, in negotiations with Commissioners and Local Authorities for the commissioning of services, decommissioning of services, funding and contractual and service level agreements, with responsibility for successfully managing and maintaining income.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care