Business Development / Projects Manager

This is great opportunity to join our dedicated Business team within Navigo Corporate Services on an 18 month fixed term or secondment basis. The role supports business units across clinical and non-clinical service areas, liaising with service area leads to drive service improvement, and provides efficient and effective support services in respect of business development

There is also the opportunity for a candidate to be recruited into this role as a developmental opportunity on a Band 5 working alongside the existing Business Development team to understand the processes and approaches to business support at Navigo, and to work with the team to develop the skills necessary to become a successful business development manager. Working across a full range of all age service areas, projects and stakeholders, you will become familiar with all aspects of the business development role working independently and as part of the team. You will be increasingly expected to work independently.

Main duties of the job

The role will provide business development and project management support throughout Navigo

This will include:

- Supporting colleagues across Navigo and NEL partners with the development of ideas/innovations aimed at improving service delivery

- Supporting the development of business cases

- Developing delivery plans with key partners within services

- Playing a key role in the successful implementation of service transformation

- Co-ordinating the engagement of key stakeholders, including service users and carers to ensure proposals and co-produced

- Writing tenders with colleagues and seeking out grant funding and tendering opportunities

- Providing high quality project management support

- Supporting the development and delivery of Navigo trading arms

- Providing regular project updates across various forums

- Using complex spreadsheets and databases to record all related activities

Hello!

We are Navigo. We look after North East Lincolnshire mental health and well-being. We are an award-winning social enterprise that provides mental health services to the NHS and beyond.

The whole basis of our work is to deliver services that we would be happy for our own family to use.

We offer a range of mental health services, including acute and community facilities as well as specialist support such as outstanding older adults inpatient services, rehabilitation and recovery community mental health and an outstanding specialist eating disorder facility.

Ranked as one of the top UK companies to work for, we featured in the Best Companies top 100 large company list and were named sixth best health and social care company 2023.

As a social enterprise, we do things a little bit differently and have also developed income-generating commercially viable businesses that provide training, education and employment opportunities including Grimsby Garden Centre and two cafes.

Working at Navigo is not like working anywhere else. Lots of places say that, but we really mean it.

We like to work with forward-thinking people who want to make a difference.