Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Medicine
- Grade
- Band 8B
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Requirement for on-call)
- Job ref
- 356-25-7232438
- Employer
- Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Flexible to work across the Group Sites
- Town
- Hull/Scunthorpe/Grimsby
- Salary
- £62,215 - £72,293 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior General Manager
Band 8B
Job overview
As the Senior General Manager, you will be the Divisional lead for business planning and overall performance of the Division. You will provide advice and support to the Operations Director on relevant matters. As a member of the triumvirate team leading the Division, you will be accountable to the Care Group Operations Director and responsible jointly, along with the Clinical lead and Senior Nursing Team, for its overall efficient and effective leadership, management, and performance.
Join Us:
If you want to make a difference and be part of a team that seeks to deliver new and innovative ways of working, we encourage you to apply. Join us and make a difference. You'll love it. We promise
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver the service strategy, business plan, and all key performance and activity targets, including robust financial planning and management.
- Ensure the safety and care of patients and service users is the primary concern.
- Lead on specific professional projects/topics at a corporate level as agreed with the relevant Director.
- Develop the leadership, managerial, and business capability of staff in the Division to support effective delivery, financial performance, and service improvement.
- Participate in the Group’s out-of-hours on-call rota.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification/experience
- Evidence of continuing professional development including management studies to masters level or above or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Leadership / Management qualification
Application Completion
Essential criteria
- ALL sections of application form FULLY completed
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience working on both strategic and operational matters
- Significant NHS/ public sector experience and knowledge, including up to-date knowledge and understanding of NHS systems and policies
- Demonstrable success in building, leading, motivating and developing multidisciplinary teams as a highly effective people manager
- Proven experience of effective performance and budgetary management and control. ty
- Proven success in business planning and in the development of business cases
- Experience of leadership of complex operational change/project management while also developing and maintaining high standards of quality
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Essential criteria
- Strong, effective leadership and people management skills
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Highly developed verbal and written communication and presentation skills suitable for a range of audiences
- Ability to ensure patient safety by assessing and managing risks associated with service developments
- Ability to work with and through others
- Ability to perform well under pressure and manage unpredictable workload with conflicting priorities
- Quality focused with an innovative approach and the ability to solve complex problems
- Ability to develop effect networks and work collaboratively with internal and external partners
- Ability to critically analyse complex financial and clinical data sets
- Well-developed IT skills to manage and report on complex performance management information
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- Personal resilience
- Able to participate in on-call rota as required
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Debra Dyble
- Job title
- Operations Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01482 674147
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