261560 - (LI) Laboratory Medicine Business Support Manager

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To this end, NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

Laboratory Medicine is one of the largest diagnostic services in NHS Lothian, delivering essential services across multiple hospital sites and processing over 15 million tests each year.

We are looking for a motivated and organised Business Support Manager to join our Laboratory Medicine Management Team.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience in administration, business support, project coordination or operational support who is looking to develop their career within a large and dynamic healthcare service.

Working closely with senior managers, you will help coordinate projects, monitor performance information, support governance and compliance activities, manage key administrative processes and provide day-to-day leadership to a small administration team.

You will be someone who enjoys working in a fast-paced environment, can manage competing priorities, has strong organisational skills and is comfortable working with data and producing reports to support decision-making.

This role is 36 hours per week, Monday -Friday with some flexibility able to be negotiated with start/finish time. Laboratory Medicine covers multiple sites within NHS Lothian and travel will be expected between them all.

We're Looking For Someone With

• A degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience working in a complex office, business support or project environment.
• Excellent organisational and communication skills.
• Confidence working with data, spreadsheets and reports.
• The ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
• A positive, proactive approach and a commitment to continuous improvement.

What We Can Offer

• A varied and rewarding role supporting a service that directly contributes to patient care.
• Opportunities to develop skills in project support, service improvement, performance reporting and people management.
• Experience working alongside senior leaders within one of Scotland's largest diagnostic services.

To work in the United Kingdom, there is a legal requirement for an individual to demonstrate that they have the relevant permission to work in the country. This permission is, without exception, granted by the UK Visa and Immigrations Service. Further information on what NHS Scotland Boards are required to do to check this as well as what your responsibilities include can be found in the further information for this vacancy.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

If after reading this information you have any questions, please contact Nadine Wilkinson at .

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