Business Manager | Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 12 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,049 - £37,796 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 March 2026 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME169QQ |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7758489/380-SS0758 |
Summary
Please note, at this stage, the role is open only to internal staff (including NHSP and Agency staff currently on placement within our organisation) and staff substantively employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Any individual who is at risk of redundancy will be given priority, provided they meet the essential criteria.
We are seeking a Business Manager to oversee the operational and strategic management of the business administration systems supporting the Went Kent directorate Liaison Psychiatry Services to ensure that facilities and resources are managed effectively.
This involves working across two hospital sites and teams (Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells).
To provide professional and managerial leadership to the administrative staff and related support services.
To ensure that processes are of high quality and appropriately targeted and developed within a recognised framework.
The post holder, in collaboration with the Service Manager and Operational Team Managers, will ensure that the service operates efficiently and effectively, achieving all the data quality, clinical activity and income targets.
The postholder will ensure that the service is compliant with all appropriate with Trust policies and initiatives and will assist with implementing or developing required actions in support of efficient service delivery.
• To support the Operational Team Managers and Service Manager to achieve required Trust Data Quality standards for service users.
• In conjunction with the directorate Business Intelligence Partner to review, maintain and analyse performance reports to ensure that the service is measured against the key targets.
• To actively promote standardised information sources across the service.
• In conjunction with Operational Team Managers to collate, analyse and present performance and activity data and implement actions to improve data quality.
• To update the shared drive.
Financial Performance Management
• Contribute to meeting identified financial targets.
• To maintain responsibility for managing budget funds maintaining accurate records of expenditure.
We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway. Rated ‘Good’ by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.
Our vision is simple: We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It’s why we’re passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.
Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.
• To manage the non-pay budget utilising electronic payments system.
• To be an authorised signatory for the service.
• To be responsible for ensuring that the standing financial procedures are followed, progress reports produced, ordering goods procedures are followed and completed in a timely manner.
• To investigate any discrepancies on the non-pay budget and liaise with the directorate senior accountant to resolve these discrepancies.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Feb 2026
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