Business & Administration Manager
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 06/09/2026
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Role summary
This role is for a highly organised and motivated Business & Administration Manager to join Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Services. You will lead and support administrative teams, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and resilient administrative support for patient care. The position involves supporting service improvement, performance management, and business functions across adult and older adult pathways. It requires strong organisational, analytical, and leadership skills, with a focus on improving services and supporting teams.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification
Desirable criteria
- Project management qualification or extensive project experience
- Able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of operational business issues with the public sector
- Knowledge and understanding of programme and project management structures
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office applications
- Job related Aptitude and Skills
- Experience working under pressure with tight deadlines, excellent organisational and time management skills
- Confident communication skills both within service and to partners
- Able to work autonomously
- Experience of handling confidential and sensitive issues appropriately
- Experience of taking and transcribing formal minutes
- Evidence of managing small/medium sized projects
- Experience at managerial level within NHS or large public sector organisation
- Additional
- Ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust
- Educated to degree level or equivalent professional qualification
- Project management qualification or extensive project experience
- Able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of operational business issues with the public sector
- Knowledge and understanding of programme and project management structures
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft office applications
- Job related Aptitude and Skills
- Experience working under pressure with tight deadlines, excellent organisational and time management skills
- Confident communication skills both within service and to partners
- Able to work autonomously
- Experience of handling confidential and sensitive issues appropriately
- Experience of taking and transcribing formal minutes
- Evidence of managing small/medium sized projects
- Experience at managerial level within NHS or large public sector organisation
- Additional
- Ability to travel independently between sites within the Trust
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Oxford Health NHS Trust
Business & Administration Manager
The closing date is 06 September 2026
Job summary
Do you have demonstratable project & business management experience?
We are seeking a highly organised and motivated Business & Administration Manager to join our Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Services.
This is a key operational role responsible for leading and supporting administrative teams across services, ensuring high-quality, consistent and resilient administrative support that enables safe and effective patient care.
Working closely with Service Managers, Team Managers and Clinical Leads, you will support service improvement, performance management and business functions across adult and older adult pathways contributing to the ongoing development and efficiency of services.
You will need to have strong organisational, analytical and leadership skills and be a confident communicator.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a strong background in administration, business support or performance management, ideally within the NHS or public sector, who is passionate about improving services and supporting teams to deliver high standards of care.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will:
- Provide line management, supervision and support to administrative staff across Adult and Older Adult Mental Health Services
- Ensure effe
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