Business Manager | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2026 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2026 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 8010725/432-HR241-26 |
Summary
Do you have a strong desire to improve performance, finance and service development? Are you financed focused and able meet performance standards whilst working under pressure,independently and make autonomous decisions? If you have an interest in developing your leadership skills, welcoming service development andinnovation then we are very interested in hearing from you.
We have an exciting opportunity to join our Women’s and Children’s division as aBusiness Manager. In this varied and interesting role, you will work closely with our Clinical and Operational Managers to provide operational leadership across business planning, performance improvement, transformation and programme delivery. You will be instrumental in supporting our patients with high quality and cost effective care and support the division in achieving our financial standards. NHS experience is essential, a can do attitude and commercially focused approach is key for this role.
The successful candidate will be working across Colchester and Ipswich hospital sites.
• To lead on all aspects of operational business planning, service planning, CIP identification, project management and the development and writing of business cases within the division, ensuring they are consistency checked, contain relevant information and have relevant financial information.
• Support the identification of cost improvement opportunities and administer the quality assurance process and work with the CDGs to put actions in place to realise the opportunity.
• Work with the CDGs to project manage the implementation of cost improvement and efficiency measures across all areas of the Trust, highlighting delays, issues and risks.
• Challenge staff at all levels to deliver benefits through committed action and change management.
• Support the CDGs with a variety of projects and national submissions.
• Support the CDGs with clinical transformation programmes.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 24 May 2026