general manager Nottingham, England
Job description
Band 8B
Job overview
Are you an experienced operational manager looking for the opportunity to progress to the next level of leadership? The current postholder has successfully secured a secondment into a different role within the Division, creating an opportunity within the Surgery Division at Nottingham University Hospitals for a highly skilled individual with drive and determination to join our dynamic management team as Deputy Directorate General Manager. The Division consists of 21 Specialties including Neurosurgery, Major Trauma, Orthopaedics, Colorectal Surgery, ENT and Gastroenterology. The Division has an annual turnover of £330m income and employs over 2,500 staff.
Main duties of the job
The Deputy Directorate General Manager will have operational and strategic responsibilities within the Division under the direction of the Deputy Divisional General Manager, with a focus on driving improvement related to financial and efficiency performance as well as quality and safety. To support you in this task you’ll be working closely with the team of Specialty General Managers who will be working hands on in the specialties. This role will provide leadership for the Divisional analytics team and the Digital agenda.
In addition, the role will be operationally aligned to the Digestive Diseases Directorate, which is one of the three Directorates within the Division delivering elective, emergency and diagnostic activity on both QMC and City Hospital sites
Working for our organisation
The role will give the postholder exposure to all of the specialties within the Surgical Division, maintaining operational responsibility for key functions, but at the same time providing a dedicated resource to focus on key improvement initiatives which align with the Divisions strategic priorities.
You will be joining the Division at an exciting time, with new theatres for Digestive Diseases specialties due to open late in the summer and further reconfiguration plans under development
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This job provides a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious individual to join our team in a demanding but highly rewarding role that will help prepare you for any future ambitions you may have in senior operational management. Along with the challenge also comes the opportunity to lead real change that will benefit our patients and our staff, so we need you to have grit and determination, be open to thinking differently and have the experience to support specialty teams in achieving success.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to first degree level
- Further training to masters level or equivalent experience
- Previous successful management experience at a senior level within the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of other specialist management training to post graduate level
Experience
Essential criteria
- Highly developed leadership and organisational skills
- Highly developed specialist knowledge of NHS policy, health sector practices and functions of NHS provider organisations and current targets in place
- Proven track record of senior operational management in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Extensive experience of influencing decision making within a large and complex organisation
Communication and Relationship
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates ability to communicate highly complex, sensitive and confidential information appropriately.
- Ability to communicate with both internal staff and external agencies to ensure compliance with performance targets.
- Highly developed leader with strong interpersonal and communication skills
Analytical and Judgement
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates ability to analyse complex facts or situations in relation to performance targets, strategy, finance
- Experience of implementing and evaluating a range or projects/initiatives that represent solutions to changing workforce/service environments
Planning and Organisation
Essential criteria
- Proven track record of developing successful business plans and strategy for planning activity
- Experience of managing complex organisational change including working with clinical & non clinical staff to change team structures and ways of working
- Confident in presenting complex information to wide and varied audience both internal and external to the organisation
- Experience of formulating long term strategic plans and impact on the organisation – translating business strategy into operational delivery
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
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- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
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