Trust Leadership Team Business Manager

Salary Band: Band 8a (£57,528 - £64,750 per annum)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Are you an experienced, highly driven leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high-profile environment? Do you excel at navigating complexity, influencing senior stakeholders, and keeping organisational priorities on track? If so, this newly created role offers an exceptional opportunity to shape and support the strategic leadership of a major acute Trust.

About the Role

We are recruiting a Trust Leadership Team (TLT) Business Manager to provide high-level strategic, operational and management support to our Medical Director, who leads the Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust (PHU) TLT. This is a pivotal role, ensuring the smooth running, alignment and effectiveness of the Trust Leadership Team as it oversees key organisational priorities.

You will be at the centre of coordinating decision-making, tracking progress against programmes of work, and ensuring risks and issues are identified, escalated and resolved in a timely and effective manner.

What You Will Be Doing

Using your strong organisational, analytical and interpersonal capabilities, you will:

• Lead and manage the business of the TLT office, ensuring high-quality, timely delivery of agreed objectives
• Coordinate key organisational priorities, synthesising information and providing assurance to the Medical Director and Executive Team
• Prepare high-quality briefings, reports and presentations to support effective executive decision-making
• Manage the weekly Trust Leadership Team meeting, ensuring agendas, papers, actions and follow-up activity are planned, monitored and delivered
• Track progress of programmes of work, highlight emerging risks, and drive completion of actions across senior stakeholders
• Lead or support sensitive projects and investigations with organisation-wide impact
• Use diplomacy, tact and problem-solving skills to unblock issues and maintain momentum in a complex system
• Represent the TLT at internal and external meetings, supporting partnership working across the health and care system

About You

You will bring:

• Significant experience operating in a fast-paced NHS or complex healthcare environment
• A proven track record of delivering results, leading programmes of work and influencing senior leaders
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to write high-quality briefings and present complex information clearly
• Outstanding organisational capability — thriving under pressure, managing competing deadlines, and maintaining accuracy at pace
• Strong analytical insight, with the ability to interpret data, understand problems and identify solutions
• The confidence to act with delegated authority, using sound judgement and maintaining confidentiality at all times

Why Join PHU?

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust is a large, ambitious and innovative organisation with a strong focus on improvement. This role offers a unique, close-working insight into senior decision-making, providing an exceptional development platform for future senior leadership roles.

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