Job Advert
Service Manager
About the Organisation:
Public Health Scotland wants to see a Scotland where everybody thrives – a Scotland where life expectancy improves and the difference in life expectancy between our poorest and wealthiest areas gets smaller.
Public Health Scotland launched 1st April 2020 as a national health board, employing around 1200 people, and with an annual budget of around £101 million.
The Post:
We have an exciting opportunity to join Public Health Scotland as Service Manager – Business Services. Your role as Service Manager is to lead and manage all aspects of the Business Services function within PHS. You will be responsible for supporting the day to day operational management of the function as well as supporting people through a period of change.
You will operate as the lead people and operational manager for a range of back office services such as personal assistants, secretarial support, contact, and administrative services including mid/back office support for functions such as PHS directorates, and corporate areas such as finance, HR, facilities, and the overall business aspects of PHS.
The Candidate:
You will be experienced and able to manage the multiple demands of the post with clarity and skill in order to ensure that results are achieved to a high standard and to time.
You will have experience of dealing with a high volume of high-stake matters simultaneously, prioritising competing demands, and negotiating effectively with colleagues across the organisation. You will be skilled in dealing with people and the management of demand and capacity, and in managing issues that impact on business-critical work of the organisation.
You will have professional or managerial or business related postgraduate qualification(s), or equivalent and extensive experience of general administration, secretarial and business support work.
Location and Working Pattern:
PHS are currently hybrid working; being a blend of home and office based. The location for this post can be Glasgow or Edinburgh.
Work pattern is Monday to Friday.
During times of public health emergency, or other urgent business need, you may be required on a temporary basis to work your normal contracted working hours over 7 days including weekends, in order to meet the needs of the service.
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with PHS.
Benefits:
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits.
Further Information:
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact John Dawson, Head of Strategy and Transformation, Public Health Scotland via email john.dawson2@phs.scot
Further information on PHS is available from: https://publichealthscotland.scot
Closing date for completed applications is Thursday 6th July
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
Public Health Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as such guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies